OK, there is a requirement that the police need a search warrant to take an item from a pawn shop. But, I still say, that doesn't add up. Why should a pawn broker have more rights than anybody else on the street? Common sense tells me that if the police sees an item at a pawn shop in plain view, the true owner of an item is standing there with the policeman who see's the item and has documentation proving that it is his and he didn't bring it to the pawn shop, then that should be where all rights to that item is forfeited by the pawn broker. He is in possession of a stolen item, end of story.
But, I guess pawn shops get better treatment than the average citizen, that and the fact that common sense doesn't apply to some laws.
