Posted January 29, 2018 3:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

If my guns were to be stolen tomorrow, the first thing I’d do is call the police as soon as I knew. After all, I’d want the police to be able to act quickly. I’d also want to make sure my guns don’t somehow tie me to any crime.

However, there are plenty of reasons stolen guns aren’t reported including the fact that without the serial number, the chances of them being recovered is practically nil.

Further, many people don’t realize their guns are stolen until well after the fact. After all, they don’t handle their guns daily, so it could be months later before anyone even notices.

Yet a new law under consideration in South Carolina seeks to criminalize such things.

In the autumn of 2006, Elizabeth “Lizzy” Hafter, a 22-year-old graduate student, was shot twice in the head while she studied on a mountain overlook in Virginia. The man behind the trigger had stolen the murder weapon and the car he was driving from his roommate in Georgia, the first act of a multistate crime spree that left several people dead across the South. The roommate did not report the thefts to police for nearly …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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