Cops won't return gun to man who shot robber in Aldi store (Wisconsin)

[shadowrider]

A gun rights advocacy group has taken Milwaukee police to task for refusing to give back a gun used in an Aldi grocery store shooting that was ruled justifiable and legal.

Nazir Al-Mujaahid, 35, shot and injured a suspected robber who was threatening a cashier and waving a sawed-off rifle at other patrons on Jan. 30. Al-Mujaahid had gotten a concealed carry permit a couple weeks earlier. The suspect fled, was later arrested and charged in the Aldi robbery and two other armed holdups.

District Attorney John Chisholm cleared Al-Mujaahid of any criminal wrongoing, but police still have his gun and holster, according to Nik Clark, president of Wisconsin Carry, Inc., a gun rights advocacy group.

"WCI believes that these acts by the Milwaukee Police Department represent violations to law-abiding citizens constitutionally guaranteed right to be free from illegal seizures of their private property and their Constitutionally recognized right to keep and bear arms," Clark said in a news release Tuesday.

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Wisconsin Carry, Inc., which has helped members sue successfully over arrests or citations for openly wearing guns around the state, is considering legal action over the Milwaukee police practice of fighting the return of weapons not used in crimes, according to its statement.

In the meantime, "We call on the Milwaukee Police Department to return Mr. Al-Majaahid's gun to him without delay," Clark sad in the statement.

Police officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/141600943.html

Looks like the good citizens of Wisconsin may be on the hook for some $$ out of this.

[sharp_stick]

1. Maybe they need it for evidence?

you shoot someone you can bet the weapon is going to be needed for trial.

[shadowrider]

2. As the article states, he was cleared of all charges

No trial, no need for evidence.

[sharp_stick]

3. Not him

the dude he shot. Are they going to need the gun in the trial of the guy that was trying to rob the store?

[DonP]

4. Answers the question; "Why does anybody need more than one gun?"

Might be needed for evidence against the criminal, but it's crappy that the guy who did the right thing is hanging out there while the cops sit on at least several hundred $ of his property.

Especially if there are friends of the crook looking to even the score.

[PavePusher]

7. The police should have a loaner library of sidearms....

that can be signed out while waiting for yours to be released.

Sounds like reasonable gun control to me.

[shadowrider]

5. I would assume so

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. LAPD used to do the same thing

A lawsuit followed by a consent decree solved that one.

[Hoyt]

8. Sounds like Al spreads his guns around - and to some unsavory individuals.

[DonP]

9. What the hell are you talking about?

That comment is even more absurd than your usual babbling.

The man (and FWIW try to be little less of a racist "Lester", it is considered very disrespectful to shorten an Arabic name to something like "Al", as if you had a familiarity with the individual) legally shot one of two criminals in the act of robbing a store with a shotgun. Both criminals were arrested and charged.

He was not charged with any crime and his firearm is being held to be used as evidence against the criminals.

Your comment, as usual, makes no sense at all.

[Hoyt]

10. Read the article. Not the cherry picked excerpts in OP.

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. I read it. The cops are still wrong.

I'd like to know when it was you got the notion in your head that deprivation of rights under color of law is okay if it happens to "one of those people"...

[Remmah2]

13. I will burn in hell for this but I slightly agree w/Hoyt's perspective. (Never gonna happen again.)

"Al-Mujaahid has twice won return of guns through that procedure, and currently has appealed a judge's denial in a third case involving a gun he said he lent to a friend, but was later found in the home of the friend's brother, a felon. Charges against the brother of being a felon in possession of a gun were ultimately dismissed, but police have refused to give the gun back to Al-Mujaahid."

Never loan a personal firearm to anyone. People need to take first line responsibility for themselves and buy their own damn guns.

[ileus]

12. This person is getting the same treatment they'd like to give everyone.