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2017-09-06 -Land of the Free

Gov. of Virgin Islands Uses Pending Natural Disaster as Potential Firearms Grab

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-06 03:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "Never let a crisis go to waste"

Posted by Frank G 2017-09-06 08:55|| 2017-09-06 08:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Must be a piss-poor national guard to have to seize privately owned firearms. What a stinking joke on more than one account.

Posted by DooDahMan 2017-09-06 09:00|| 2017-09-06 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Five bucks says they'll gin up some excuse for having destroyed the weapons rather than return them to their owner. And they won't compensate them.

Seems this may well land in SCOTUS.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-06 09:59|| 2017-09-06 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 And the order requires citizens to turn in incendiaries, too. Damn, got to turn thre thermite grenades.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-09-06 10:30|| 2017-09-06 10:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Napalm? Nope, got none of that governor.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-09-06 11:25|| 2017-09-06 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Governor Kenneth "King Canute" E. Mapp, Are you ordering them to lay down suppressing fire on the ~~rising tide~~ storm surge?

Posted by magpie 2017-09-06 14:42|| 2017-09-06 14:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, since only criminals have guns.../sarc

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-09-06 19:35|| 2017-09-06 19:35|| Front Page Top

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