JohnRich 4 #1 May 18, 2009 News, Wallingford, Connecticut: ATF raids mobile home A usually quiet mobile home park was shaken Friday morning when about 15 officers from the U.S. bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and local police descended on one of their neighbor's homes with force. ATF officers surrounded the home and used a battering ram to enter the unlocked home in the rear. Once inside, officers pulled Gilman Boynton and Paul Boynton out of bed, the men said. Paul Boynton said three or four officers threw him to the floor and put a gun to his head. Gilman Boynton, 76, who suffers from a heart condition, was made to sit in the living room, he said. The family was told by ATF officers that the agency received a tip six weeks ago that a convicted felon was living at the home and had access to guns, Lynne Boynton said. Paul Boynton was arrested 34 years ago at the age of 17 with a friend who had forged a check. He hasn't been arrested since, he said. Gilman Boynton is a gun collector, who keeps his rifles in a locked case on the wall, and a Beretta pistol in a safe. On Friday, ATF officers confiscated 14 rifles from the gun case and took his permits, he said. After breaking the safe, the ATF officers left the Beretta with a magazine cartridge still in the safe in Boynton's dresser. "If they are so worried about guns, why did they leave a pistol in the safe and the holster?" Lynne Boynton said. "It was humiliating; I've never been handcuffed in my life." According to a search and seizure warrant signed by U.S. District Court Judge Joan G. Margolis in New Haven Thursday, the agents were authorized to seize firearms, ammunition, holsters and destructive devices. There were no arrests during Friday's raid.Source: http://www.myrecordjournal.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=2755&dept_id=592709&newsid=20316296 Warning: If you own a gun, do not let your juvenile delinquent son live with you. Ever! And watch out for those deadly holsters - I feel so much more safe now that the BATF has removed those dangerous devices from his home. Since they didn't make any arrests, that would mean that there were no laws broken. And if no laws were broken, then why did they seize all the guns? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #2 May 18, 2009 It will be interesting to see if he gets his guns back. I've never done a background check on some of my roommates. I guess I'm lucky I wasn't raided because I ownded a gun or two. It sounds like the ATF has nothing better to do. This is probably the most excitement they've had all week.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougH 270 #3 May 18, 2009 Yay big goverment. Please take more of my rights... I am soooooooooo helpless without you. "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #4 May 18, 2009 i wonder how many of the people that agree with you are also anti-choice (abortion) . Or pro-PATRIOT act. funny that. disclaimer: i am not commenting on gun control per se. i personally can see both sides and to be 100% honest, am on the fence. this is about the "taking away rights" argument...Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 3 #5 May 18, 2009 Perhaps they were looking for unlawful alcohol, or tobacco. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #6 May 18, 2009 Quote Perhaps they were looking for unlawful alcohol, or tobacco. Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
