Ever lose a gun?

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Al Thompson

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Just had a call from a friend who manages a motel. One of her guests left his gun. Cleaning lady found it..

I misplaced one for a while when I was much more cavilier, but can't conceive of loseing one..

Thoughts?

Giz
 
About the closest I've ever come to losing/misplacing a gun is when I was looking for one that I'd forgotten I'd sold a few days before. :)

Misplacing keys, cordless phones, stuff like that, OK. Guns are a different animal altogether.
 
My dad, who runs a small shop in MN, doesn't unpack completely between gun shows. He finds guns in his high-tech transportation systems (cardboard boxes) from time to time.

I keep checking my spare boxes, no guns. Must be the wrong brand.
 
I drove about a quarter mile with one on the top of the car. I was alone and the big dummy with me left it there.
 
Nope :cool: Know where mine are at all times :D

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Anonymous
 
Does finders keepers apply? :)

Never walked off and forgot one myself, because when I was 18 and in green, Drill Sergeant Hunter made it clear to me that any soldier who couldn't keep track of his weapon would be in major deep doo-doo. One guy who DID walk away from his M-16 in the field suffered huge public humiliation in front of the company and pulled sh*t detail for weeks thereafter. If the 16 had actually gone astray and was not found, he'd have begged for humiliation and sh*t detail! :)

Lesson learned, never forgotten.
 
My bunkmate during basic left his M-16 behind at a rest halt one dark and stormy night (really). He was worried (with justification it turned out) about what our Drill would say so he didn't mention it to anyone until after we had been moving for an hour or so. It is amazing just how dark and overgrown those Kentucky hills were when you had to have the whole company backtrack for an hour and then search the area for a black rifle in the dark. He had that thing tied to his wrist at all times for the next three weeks.

Being his bunkmate I only had to have it tied to mine for a week.
 
I left mine locked in my car once and forgot it was there. When I went to the cabinet that I usually keep it in, I think I actually stopped breathing for the entire five minutes it took me to remember it was in the car! :o
 
Me personally? No.

I did have a friend that lost two! :eek: He worked as a gunsmith at a local shop and rode a motorcycle to work. He sometimes took work home. One day he was carrying two pistols in his backpack on his way to work. Somewhere along the way, the two guns fell out of the backpack. The backpack had ripped open. Oops! :eek:

When he got to work and noticed that the guns were missing he first tried retracing his route but to no avail. He then called the three different suburbs he travelled through to report the loss. Can you say busted? He got a severe reprimand from all of the PDs about carrying guns while on a cycle.

He had to replace both customers' guns. Ouch! One was a Colt 1911 Gold Cup, the other I never found out what it was...

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Just happened two weeks ago.

I was going to the range after work, so placed pistol bag (with 4 pistols) behind drivers seat of my supercab truck. I was running a little behind so my wife says, "I'll take our daughter to school this morning." I always am the one who drops her off. Anyway, for some reason, wife takes my truck, and runs right back home for me to go to work.

After work I pick up a buddy, get to range, pop up seat and whhhooooo, my gun bag is not there. I know I have not left the truck unlocked any that day, but I still can not explain the feeling I had when I saw the bag gone. With a pounding heart, I call my wife and say, "Have you seen my gun bag?" She says, "Ya, I set it out in the garage before taking daughter to school this morning. I didn't want them in there going to the school. Were you going to shoot this afternoon?"

Was I ever relieved. Glad they weren't really lost. And I didn't say a thing to my wife. She is great to me. --plinker2--
 
Never lost one, set my range bag on the Suburban and started to drive off one time. I only got a 1/2 block before remembering what I did. Packed up after a gunshow one time and put one of the 1911's in a different box than I normally used. That caused a rapid heart rate for a little while.

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"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
OK - confession time - I once was in the car and pulling out when a friend of mine (wasn't then, is now :) ) ran me down and asked if I owned a certain gun.. I left a pistol on the bench at our local outdoor range..

Giz

[This message has been edited by Gizmo99 (edited May 26, 2000).]
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gizmo99:
Just had a call from a friend who manages a motel. One of her guests left his gun. Cleaning lady found it..

I misplaced one for a while when I was much more cavilier, but can't conceive of loseing one..

Thoughts?

Giz[/quote]
yep sinner me ,back in the 80's lost a very nice colt commander, in the Yellow Breeches creek, the motorcycle was easy to find,but not the colt.darnit.

rms/pa
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jeffer:
Never lost one. The day they come to confiscate them I lost every dang one in the river.[/quote]
Yeah, The same here. "My handguns? Funny you should ask. They were stolen in a robbery last night officer."
 
I never lost a gun. I have however left my service pistol in the locker after processing an arrestee and gone on sa call for service a few times.
 
Dang it, Arrell! Here I was feeling so superior because I'd never done anything like these other "absent minded professors" and you had to go and ruin it. You reminded me of the time I also left my duty pistol in the jail locker after an arrest. :o

Of course a few minutes latter I was called to a domestic and as I got out of the car, listening to the shouting, I put a hand to my holster to make sure the snap was secure before confronting the unknown. Talk about an empty feeling in the pit of your stomach! :eek: :eek: Luckly I carry a backup gun which fits pretty well in my duty holster and the situation was immediately remedied. No one ever knew of my mistake, but it sure left its impression on my ego.

I thought that was something I would never forget, but guess I did if only for a minute or two. I now remedy the possibility of future accidents by leaving my car keys with my pistol when visiting the jail. Can't leave without them.......
 
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