This long story has seen some poor reporting, but this takes the cake.
Jim McLoud has not "won" anything. Plus he is shown to be wrong is just about everything he has written, said, or done in this matter.
McLoud wanted to make pure profit off of selling these guns on consignment. That is his business - to make money off of guns and shooting, and this has all been about his self promoting and nothing else.
That is the end result here, and nothing else except that a good police officer's reputation remains under attack by the whacko associates of Jim McLoud.
After this judge ordered the guns seized, per a domestic violence matter, the police officer lawfully did what he was ordered to do, by this judge.
McLoud then began a smear campaign against the police officer which was dirty and vicious and well documented in these pages.
This resolution shows that McLoud never owned these guns and his premise has been false in every respect. That his pet gun nut cohorts want to try to twist it into some kind of victory just shows how silly and stupid they are.
Silly and stupid, with guns apparently.
It appears that in his consignment contract there has been a "buy" clause. It kills McLoud's pure profit, but if he buys the guns, and only then, he owns the guns.
The judge says that's okay. That's all that has happened here. On proof McLoud is now, not "then," the legal owner of the guns they will be turned over to him.
These guns were seized legally, by this judge and court. McLoud has not done an end run of any kind. This is no master stroke. In all his ranting against police, the New Boston police chief in particular, and all his postings or talking to reporters, McLoud never mentioned he had this option - until he exercized it and the judge approved his doing so.
Maybe he'll sell them to try to recoup his investment. Or he can hold them for Mike Murphy, a fellow gun trader, to buy back, if and when the DV order is lifted against Murphy.
The net result of this exercise is Jim McLoud has exposed himself as a liar, and a dirty, disgusting man. That is all.
- EX, NH