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Pillar of the Community
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City council passes ordinance to fingerprint, photograph precious metal sellers Wednesday, February 06, 2013 http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?s...l&id=8982844Quote:
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Next time you try to sell gold, silver or other precious metals you can expect to be fingerprinted and photographed. The Houston City Council passed an ordinance meant to help track down criminals who try to resell stolen valuables. Gold-buying businesses will now be required to photograph and fingerprint sellers as well as photograph the items that are being sold to the dealer. Please add your opinions and comments please. *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Guilty before proven innocent. I'm sure the ACLU will have something to say....
*absolutely NO political values should be inferred from this statement...just an observation.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Simple solution sell it on ebay or elsewhere. |
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United Kingdom
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No problem at all. Only criminals would have objection to it happening and it would make it harder for them to do their thing.
Its like the DNA database in the UK - many many innocent people on that and people started to complain. Got rid of a lot of that database. Bit of a waste really - whats the issue with it, if you've done nothing wrong?
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United States
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The issue is your pic, with what you are selling plus your name. Could mean you have more at home. That info in the wrong hands could end up with someone breaking into your house. Besides now that they have passed that law, the thieves will sell somewhere else.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The real issue as I see it, is that the city of Houston believes that anyone who sells gold or silver items are thieves, and that is not the case. The best way to avoid that wide brush is to no longer sell your metals within the city.
I'd believe in the program if they actually find a crook. The odds of that happening is like being struck by lightning 3 times and surviving. Slim to none and slim just left town.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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They obviously have a huge problem or they wouldn't have resorted to this. No biggie to me.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Having lived there many years, Houston is the pawn shop capital of the world.You cannot drive 5 miles down the road without passing 3 pawn shops. When selling anything you are on video, are required to produce a drivers license and a signature anyway. So the only thing they are adding is the fingerprint.
I have bought many a coin from the pawn shop. Maybe this will keep me from having your coin in my collection.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hard to pry a coin away from the pawn shops here. Well I should say Peace and Morgan dollars. They just wanna hoard em. Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Canada
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It might be harder to implement now, but perhaps they can force the seller to have a bill of sale or provenance to prove that they are the rightful owners. Tricky, but given enough time it can happen.
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United States
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On the flip side, Can we photograph and fingerprint coin dealers/pawn shops when we buy from them each time? As a way to keep them honest about their junk silver sales?  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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No problem at all. Only criminals would have objection to it happening and it would make it harder for them to do their thing. No - the criminals do not have a harder time at it. They are already breaking the law and a new one is not going to change their attitude/mind/ trouble in getting done what they want to. Its a nice dream, but it never works out this way: Criminal: Oh no, they passed a new law to fingerprint me when I sell fake stuff to people, Well, I guess I'll have to comply - it IS the law after all. And its never hard for a criminal to find a buyer for what they have either. I wish we lived in a common sense dat where people looked at the facts to see that putting more restrictions on law abiding people does nothing to limit the criminals who were breaking the existing laws anyway. and why would anyone care? Because America was founded with the mindset that its none of the governments business what we do privately! The government is supposed to be a servant of the people - not something that watchdogs everything we do. Another ramification of this is that people who have been handed down a lot of PMs by family members now will have it recorded - somewhere - that its possible they have these holdings. Its private business that Americans have been given - in the Bill of Rights - to be private. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Amen Earle42. All it will do is complicate an otherwise simple process and hinder legitimate commerce.
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All it will do is complicate an otherwise simple process and hinder legitimate commerce. Guys, it is pawn shops and cash for gold dealers. It's not like they are going to fingerprint you at Wal-mart. As I said before they already require a valid drivers license, you have to sign a bill of sale, the whole transaction is already recorded by video from every angle. The only thing they added was the thumb print, same as the bank requires as part of Bush's old homeland security rules. |
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As I said before they already require a valid drivers license, you have to sign a bill of sale, the whole transaction is already recorded by video from every angle. Exactly! So what then is the point of the fingerprint? |
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