Can anyone help with this problem??

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Does anyone have any help with this or am I just out of luck?

My father, was given by my mother in 1959 a Bearcat Ruger for X-Mas. He liked the pistol so much, a few years later she gave him a Super Bearcat Ruger. He had these pistols until the day he died. They first went to my brother, who took care of them but was not very good at security. They both were stolen around 5 years ago. As you would probably guess I was not very happy about this. We come from a small community in Michigan so because the pistols meant so much to me, I offered a $2,000.00 reward for anyone who would return them or give me information on how to find them. No questions asked. A year or so latter, I had them back in my possetion. Here is my problem. They were reported stolen and my brother collected insurance on them, so I don't know if it would be a good idea to try and register them and make them legal again. Can you tell me how to do this without involving friends and family?? Help
 
talking to a lawyer is the smart money, but technically...arent they the property of the insurance company at this point and wont that have to be rectified? sounds like you and brother are gonna need to talk.;)
 
The revolvers belong to the insurance company since they paid the claim but do your state require you to register firearms?
 
Notify the FBI that the gun was recovered. Gonna be lots of problems if you dont. Then you and your brother pay back the insurance company.

Let me relate a story. Years ago I was running the Alaska Marksnanship Unit. This time I was coaching the Rifle team in a trip to the Wilson Matches (National Guard Championships. Upon arrival in Little Rock we discovered one of our M14s was stolen. I imediatley notified the FBI and my boss, completed the SIR ( Serious incident report). Covered all my bases. No problem until the rifle was recovered. Apparenty one of the bagage handlers was caught flashing it in down town Little Rock, the rifle was recovered. Thats when the problem started.

I was told the rifle couldnt have been stolen from my rifle team because in 1968 it was reported stolen and never recovered. All kinds of investigations were started, and being the property book officer of the marksmanship unit I was catching the brunt of the flack, even though I wasn't in the AKNG at the time, being in the regular army in a little live fire FTX in SE Asia. That little detail didnt matter.

Anyway, after a long investigation I discovered that in 1968 there was an inventory and no one could find the hand reciept for the rifle. To cover their butts, instead of searching for the HR, they just reported it as stolen, when it showed up again, they did nothing.

Yeah I know there wasnt much they could have done to me criminaly but it could have really screwed up my marksmanship program. I had a lot of investigation and paper work to do for something that could have been covered if someone had just reported the gun had been recovered.

A simple phone call is all it would have taken care of it.

Call the FBI and tell them the firearms were recovered, trust me, its simpler in the long run, it'll save lots of problems. I'd much rather deal with insurance companys then the feds. They dont want the dern guns, the mony yes but not the guns.

JMHO
 
Just a clarification. The insurance company does not own the guns but they are owed some money for the claim they paid. I do agree these need to be reported to LEO as being recovered.
 
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