Let’s assume I saw my neighbor receive 20 pounds of crack cocaine. Apparently, in Clark County that would be OK, because the sheriff cannot act on the word of a citizen. Hide it in a home — everything is just fine.
Otherwise, I fail to understand why a sheriff’s deputy could not execute a search warrant to retrieve weapons that a person with a domestic violence order against them held.
I understand that one cannot be compelled to hand over the weapons (a right we all enjoy — that of not incriminating oneself). But why does the statement of the victim that someone owns a firearm not suffice? When did we stop policing when someone reports a crime is occurring? Is there not a public record of the purchase of a firearm that would suffice as evidence of ownership? What’s the point of recording something unless it’s used when we need to identify something?
Lots of hand-waving, as usual, and not a lot of policing going on, as usual.
