From San Jose's Winchester House to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. From the Alamo of the distant past to the most recent road-rage shooting. Dirty Harry pulls his piece on the Boardwalk. Between Sept. 13 and Oct. 2, six events occurred that led the Santa Cruz City Police and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department to confiscate 12 of those guns. The sock contains a loaded .22 caliber Jennings semiautomatic pistol.
Police trace the gun's registration as part of standard operating procedure.
If it had been determined that the registered owner was not someone with a criminal record or a convicted felon, or that the weapon had been stolen, the SCPD would have contacted the owner. However, it turns out the registered owner is a convicted felon and does not live in the area. The registered owner cannot be found. We dismantle them and then send them to a place where they get melted down. It's also impossible to know how many guns are abandoned each year in America, how many guns have been hidden or hastily thrown away or forgotten about, shoved between the folds of old clothes in the attic.