Man’s Gun Collection May Be Destroyed By Authorities

By Tom Knighton

Most of our readers have guns. Based on the average number of guns reported per firearm owner, our readers have a lot of guns. This warms my heart and makes me damn proud to be an American.

However, just imagine that you got really depressed and contemplated suicide. Maybe you’d do it, maybe you wouldn’t, but your family stepped in to help you. After all, that’s what families try to do.

Now imagine that while you were being hospitalized to get better, you learned that the gun collection you’d spent years putting together and spent a lot of money on was likely to be destroyed without your consent.

That’s the reality for one Philadelphia man.

Police who were responding to a report of a suicidal man Wednesday discovered a cache of weapons which included firearms, grenades and ammunition inside the man’s home.

The 72-year-old man, who was not identified, was reported to police by his son who feared for his father’s wellbeing and told officers that there were firearms inside the home, Lieutenant Dennis Rosenbaum of the Philadelphia Police Department said Thursday.

Officers discovered what appeared to be a grenade after the man’s son asked police to remove his father’s weapons from the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms