Mom's quest to find gun that killed her son exposes firearms loophole

[SecularMotion]

BOSTON —A grieving mother is on a quest to find out how a gun used to kill her son went from a legal sale into a killer's hands.

Kim Odom has a simple question: Where did the gun used to kill her son come from?

Thirteen-year-old Steven Odom was shot and killed in 2007 while walking home in Boston, a murder that shocked the city because of his youth and innocence.

"It's important for me to know because my son's life, Steven's life, mattered," Odom told 5 Investigates' Karen Anderson. "Where did the gun come from?"

http://www.wcvb.com/news/moms-quest-to-find-gun-that-killed-her-son-exposes-firearms-loophole/35566876

[GGJohn]

1. Any comment on this story SecMo?

Oh, wait..............................

[pipoman]

2. I read the article and fail to see why anyone really gives a shit

Where a crime gun came from. Does anyone care where any other murder weapon came from? A non-issue.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. There was this guy...

...in Florida who bought the gun from the guy who bought the gun from the Florida dealer. Things were fine thus far since this guy was a cop and cops are beyond reproach and always to be trusted with guns (unless they're sometimes not). In the intervening 26 years the Florida cop (let's call him Officer Morpheus) committed two heinous and thoughtless acts. First he had a habit of keeping the gun in his car trunk under the spare with a trigger lock engaged. Now this car came into the possession of another individual (let's call him Smith). This brings to Officer Morpheus' second indiscretion, he had, in the most inconsiderate fashion, the gall to experience a fatal cardiac event without properly disposing of his firearm.

This unknown free agent, Smith, acquired the gun along with the car in which it was left, after a couple resales. The unknown and apparently unsavory agent, Smith, not wanting anything to do with the gun, gave it to a friend who gave/sold it to another...

Eventually this Colt makes its way to Boston via the grey market.

Conclusion: Obviously both Smith and Morpheus belong in prison.

[ileus]

5. Many years ago my BIL bought a 1911 from a pawn shop.

It had been pawned a day earlier and my BIL stopped in and went ahead and picked it up....4473 and all. He brought it home and shot it a few times and a few days later sold it to another local.

About 4 days later a deputy from a neighboring county (where the gun was bought) showed up at my BILs home (also a deputy BTW) asking about the pistol and that it was a stolen pistol from an investigation he was conducting. My BIL told him it was already sold down the road. This really upset the other deputy and he caused a scene at my BILs house that he "can't just go around selling guns like that."

So he complained to my BILs superior, who ended up calling this deputies super to complain about the lack of professional courtesy during the initial questioning at my BILs house and subsequent phone call to the Sheriffs office. Odd thing was...the supervisor of this deputy had no idea about any investigation or stolen property.

So he started digging, it turned out the "stolen" gun was part of a insurance scam, the deputy had another person pawn the gun, then he reported it to insurance, and then the idea was that he'd be able to "confiscate" it from the pawn shop acting as the deputy in charge of the investigation, only it was already sold. Then he moved on to the last known buyer, only the gun had already sold again. His pitching a fit caught him in a web of lies and fraud. He ended up doing a little time and obviously losing his job.

[ileus]

4. I keep as many as I can off the street, took another one off the street last evening.

got a text message about a Stainless Ruger Blackhawk 357.


I'm back in the blackhawk business, I haven't owned a single action blackhawk since 1988,


So there you have it....another pistol off the streets and in a loving home.