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Cathy1911:
Also posted to CCW Nebraska.  From KETV:

--- Quote ---The gun bounty program is part of the city?s Crime Stoppers campaign. Officer Jake Bettin said the two programs work much in the same way.

"We?re offering $500 cash for a person that you know has an illegal gun," Bettin said. "You can call anonymously and turn them in and do the right thing for the community. I think that?s a positive thing and I think people will call."
--- End quote ---

From the CrimeStoppers website:



Oh I'm just sure this couldn't be abused . . .

AAllen:
What I fing entertaining is what makes a gun illegal.  The only things I see that may be illegal guns are defaced firearms and short shotguns (without proper license).  The rest of these are not illegal guns, the possession of these guns would be illegal.  In other words not the item but the act.

Randy:
Gee wonder whom gave them this grant?

Illegally Owned would be proper wording.
Remember in Omaha short Rifles also.
But illegal by who's definition is the big problem.
Omaha's rightest gun laws with there registration and finger print are just plain ridiculous.

Rich B:
I sawed off my 870.  It's legal in all 50 states and doesn't require a tax stamp.


And people wonder why they have "Stop Snitching" campaigns.  Echoes of "1984" indeed.

Wesley D:
"Crime Stoppers doesn't want your name or number."  I'm confused.  How exactly is the government's fink supposed to get his $500 bribe? 

Cathy, you're being such a cynic.  What sort of abuse could possibly happen?  You mean like if, say, Omaha judges choose to consider an "anonymous tip" as reasonable articulable suspicion or probable cause for executing a search warrant?  Does that mean a neighbor (or acquaintance) with a grudge can call in (while cowardly hiding behind anonymity) a false tip and have your property ransacked by Omaha government employees?  I can see it now, "Yes, we understand Mr. So-and-so that the 4th Amendment protects you against unreasonable searches and seizures, but you see, we have this 'credible anonymous tip'..." 

Agreed, Rich.  Frighteningly similar to 1984 - and Matt Bracken's: Enemies: Foreign and Domestic.

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