[PA Rifleman]

Sounds like it's business as usual for Upper Darby. Seems like they've been helping themselves to other folk's gun collections, and then reselling for fun & profit. Apparently that's what inspired the resistance to returning them.

Britt said gun seizures increased dramatically after 2001, when patrol officers were asked to confiscate weapons whenever there was a domestic dispute.

"The patrol officers would say, 'We're going to take your guns until you cool down,' " Britt said.

"Officers would bring armloads to the second-floor detective room," he said. "I've seen as many as 20 to 25 guns come in at a time.

The guns typically were not returned, Britt said. If owners complained, he said, they were told that they'd have to spend a lot of money hiring lawyers and getting a court order.

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One gun dealer said he had visited the department at least once a year and bought 20 or 30 firearms at a time.

"I would cherry-pick. . . . I don't take junk," said Thomas S. Milowicki, owner of the Targetmaster gun store in Chadds Ford.

Milowicki said he had written checks to the Police Department and always provided required documentation. Without explanation, Upper Darby stopped selling him guns about 2001, he said.

But records, including ATF investigative reports obtained by The Inquirer, confirm the guns continued to flow for years.

According to one ATF document, a senior Upper Darby officer, Capt. George Rhoades, said police had supplied weapons to three gun shops.

One of them was Lou's Loans†on 69th Street in Upper Darby, known for more than a decade as a problematic gun dealer.

†Yes, the same Lou's that UDPD triumphantly crowed about shutting down - news report >link<


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