Beloit police concerned about stolen weapons
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WCLO's Steve Benton reports on a request from Beloit police for gun owners to keep records of the serial numbers of their firearms
BELOIT — Trying to recover the 46 weapons stolen in Beloit since the first of the year is bad enough, but police say the task is made more difficult because the owners don't have any record of ownership, or even the serial numbers of the weapons.
Deputy Police Chief Norm Jacobs says only 17 of the guns stolen were entered into a stolen gun data base used by law enforcement across the country.
Jacobs says he's looking into asking the city council to draft an ordinance requiring gun owners to keep records of serial numbers on the guns they have. He stresses, "this is not gun registration." He says the police department doesn't want to deal with that, but it would be easier to identify stolen weapons if they had access to the serial numbers.
Jacobs says he'll do a little more research before moving forward with a proposed ordinance.
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By BETH WHEELOCK 11/24/09
Aug 8, 2009 at 10:03 p.m.
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I own guns, & don't believe our Government has the right to take, or restrict, law abiding citizens Gun Rights. Having said that, if i thought for a second that by registering the serial numbers of guns I owned, it would only be used that the intended purpose of locating, and returning my guns to me after they were stolen, I wouldn't have an issue with it. Thats usually not the case though. History has proven over, and over again.. when Governments (Local, State or Federal) are given by Legislation, these powers, its abused some how. Maybe not by the administration in office at the time the Ordinance, bill, resolution (whatever its titled) is signed, but somewhere after them.. and there have been times, when it was the seated administration that drafted the ordinance, that abused it. So how do we citizens know, which one won't be abused, & which one will?
Apr 2, 2009 at 3:25 p.m.
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Latinmami...those stolen guns have probably been sold in cities where they've been banned. Chicago maybe?
Mar 31, 2009 at 9:12 p.m.
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coyote - but the city will do this for our own good , that way the criminals will have a good foothold .
Mar 31, 2009 at 3:59 p.m.
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Sounds exactly like gun registration to me.
Mar 31, 2009 at 1:49 p.m.
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scary stolen guns just floating around waiting to do damage to someone
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