Disarmed while unconscious

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John/az2

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The question has been running through my mind lately:

What happens to my gun and other personal effects if I should be in an accident where in am rendered unconscious, and need to be transported to a hospital after being treated for injuries at the scene?



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John/az

"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
 
It is not uncommon in my part of town for injured and even dead to be looted before help arrives.
Most ambulance crews know how to deal with it. I was injured as a cop and they took my entire equipment belt and put it with the driver and it was given to hospital security when I arrived. I got it back when I was discharged later.
 
I have had a wee bit of experience with this particular question in the past month.

I can't guarantee that this happens everywhere, but the Highway Patrol took my shotgun and my pistol and signed them over to the local PD. My brother signed both out the next day.

LawDog

[This message has been edited by LawDog (edited February 13, 2000).]
 
It may depend on your particular location. In my neck of the woods only the items immediately on your person go with you in the ambulance to the hospital i.e. jewelry, wallet, maybe a purse. As for a firearm, if there is a LEO on the scene, usually the case with a motor vehicle accident, we allow the officer to secure it with whatever else may need to be taken care of. If there is no one else to leave the firearm with, I have seen instances where it was secured in one of the lockable compartments on the ambulance and later turned over to a LEO or hospital security. I am really not aware of any policy addressing such an issue in effect with any of the EMS systems in my area....
At any rate most of the folks I have worked with in the field and the hospital have done a good job making sure that an injured persons' affects are properly handled. Hope this helps.


Medic
 
I got a nuance. This summer I decided to test gravity and lost. Luckily I was still together enough to secure the firearm but it was shakey for me. Easily I could have been unable to
function physically.

Do I tell the paramedics as soon as they
deal with me? Wait for the hospital?
 
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