Dave Workman: Recent headlines underscore myth of UBC as crime-fighting tool

Yesterday’s Seattle Police Blotter reported the early Sunday arrest of four guys with three handguns in the Belltown area, and one of them was stolen while another was tucked in the waistband of a guy who did not have a concealed pistol license.

A story this morning on Michigan Live tells about 17 service pistols and shotguns listed as stolen from the Flint Police Department. One of them was a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson semi-auto, found by a 15-year-old whose friend reportedly tried to use it to rob a 15-year-old drug dealer a couple of days later. As the two young teens ran, the pistol discharged and wounded the teen in the leg.

Last Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Seattle reported that a 36-year-old man from Monroe, Snohomish County, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing 29 guns from a Fred Meyer and “selling them to criminals.” Matthew Elshaug pleaded guilty to several charges last October, including being a felon in possession of firearms.

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