02-01-2013, 03:27 PM
I don't think you could hold the owner of the firearm responsible for the crime. For reasons I have stated on this subject, a couple pages back, sometimes a person would not even know their firearm is missing. I am one of those people that could lose a firearm or two and never even know it's gone from my house.
I do feel that this ATF agent should be reviewed and reprimanded [loss of work hours, demotion, something like that] because of his carelessness.
Its one thing to have a firearm stolen from your home on the good side of town, but a totally different story to lose your firearm when it is stolen from your vehicle in the bad part of town.
This agent should have ben and probably was, trained better than this. Even the average Joe knows better than to leave their gun sitting in their auto unattended. That is one reason I dislike gun free zones. A gun free zone makes a person that has their legally carried firearm, unholster it and leave it unattended in their auto while they do business in that gun free zone, but that's a little off topic.
I do feel that this ATF agent should be reviewed and reprimanded [loss of work hours, demotion, something like that] because of his carelessness.
Its one thing to have a firearm stolen from your home on the good side of town, but a totally different story to lose your firearm when it is stolen from your vehicle in the bad part of town.
This agent should have ben and probably was, trained better than this. Even the average Joe knows better than to leave their gun sitting in their auto unattended. That is one reason I dislike gun free zones. A gun free zone makes a person that has their legally carried firearm, unholster it and leave it unattended in their auto while they do business in that gun free zone, but that's a little off topic.