Ever lose track of a weapon?

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I will be the first to admit this was pretty stupid but i was i a panic last night. I had decided to get out my Glock 32 is see how comfortable it would be to carry IWB. When I went to look for it I could not find it.

I searched the house from top to bottom. It was not in my gunsafe (I do not keep my Glocks there but I looked anyway), it was not in my small safe in the bathroom, it was not in my nightstand, it was not in my car, it was not in my range bag, or anywhere else I looked.

I started wondering if I sold it and did not remember doing so but I found the case in the garage. I started panicking thinking did I leave it at the range? My imagination was running wild. I started looking on top of cabinets and anywhere else I might stash something even though I never leave weapons laying out.

To keep an already long story from getting too much longer I finally faintly remembered around 4:00am that I used to keep my G33 in a locked Pelican hard case before I started locking it in my car glove box. I vaguely remembered that when I took it out of the case that I placed something else in the case to replace it. I looked through the closets and found the Pelican case under my softball and paintball bags in the hall closet. Inside was my G32.

I felt like such an idiot for letting something as dangerous as a gun get away from me for so long without even realizing it. :o
 
Yea my wife finds my NAA .22 in the dryer all the time. I have the cleanest ,22 around, And I have so many I forget where I put them, And its like getting a new gun after finding it again..
 
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yep, sometimes I'll put the gun away somewhere "safe" and totally forget where i put it days later. Too busy? I think so. Sometimes when we go on vacation, I forget what the damned combo is on the safe when we get home. I haven't gone to look as of yet, but I really have to think...its a bit scarey.

Hope it doesn't get worse when I get older....

I think we just need to slow down a bit. I can't even find time to shoot at matches anymore...
 
I had a S&W M60 "stolen" several years ago (wasn't sure when/where though) and reported it to the local Sheriffs department. About 8 months later I was cleaning out the RV in order to sale it, only to find the M60 in one of the dresser drawers in it. Then I remember I had put it in there for an up coming trip that I never ended up going on. Man that was an embarrassing phone call to the Sheriffs department to let them know it wasn't stolen after all. :o

Also forgot my Seecamp in my pants pocket when I did laundry. I didn't realize it till I heard something banging around in the dryer. Got it out, took it out back and fired all the rounds in the mag...still worked great. :D
 
You may need strategies for reducing and/or dealing with chaos. An easy one is: simplify. Whatever it is, just less of it.


You clearly don't need that particular gun. Why have it?


BTW: I've done much, much worse. I won't even tell you. But it involved a loaded automatic rifle that belonged to the government. Twice. On one day.
 
I was a platoon leader when we were training at NTC (National Training Center in Ft. Irwin, CA). Our Company had fired at the pistol range earlier in the day and I was the Range Officer. Later, I got a call on the radio from Range Control to return to the range ASAP. I drove back and they handed me a Beretta 92 they had "found" at the range. I took it not knowing who's it was, but knowing it was from our Company. I had some other things to do and returned to our Company Area later that evening. That was when I found out, very quietly, that our Company Commander was looking for his sidearm. I was able to return it to him with no fuss and no muss. You can't imagine the look on his face when I handed it to him. Talk about RELIEF! I had great OER's (Officer Evaluation Reports) ever after. Ha.

Major
 
I was a platoon leader when we were training at NTC (National Training Center in Ft. Irwin, CA). Our Company had fired at the pistol range earlier in the day and I was the Range Officer. Later, I got a call on the radio from Range Control to return to the range ASAP. I drove back and they handed me a Beretta 92 they had "found" at the range. I took it not knowing who's it was, but knowing it was from our Company. I had some other things to do and returned to our Company Area later that evening. That was when I found out, very quietly, that our Company Commander was looking for his sidearm. I was able to return it to him with no fuss and no muss. You can't imagine the look on his face when I handed it to him. Talk about RELIEF! I had great OER's (Officer Evaluation Reports) ever after. Ha.
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I would have sent it up to the battalion commander just like he would have fried any of the enlisted personal in his company.
 
I kept my Ruger 22/45 in the trunk of my car for two or three years.

One evening I went to get it and it was :eek: not there!

For two hours I searched the car and my house to no avail.

I didn't find it till I had given up on the search, shot my Glock and went to clean it.

...The 22/45 was in the corner. I had set my gun cleaning box on it...
 
Absotively :eek:

"Directly proportional to my number of birthdays." .... :D

Did Find a .32 M/L, I forgot I had. Pretty neat and I'll have to shoot it next week. ;)




Be Safe !!!
 
I would have sent it up to the battalion commander just like he would have fried any of the enlisted personal in his company.
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In that case he would not have had the avatar "Retired Major", it would be "Former LT" after the BN CDR was done with him.

I have not lost one either but have found a number of them on exercises. Strangely I never found the need to burn anyone over it. Most people are so relieved and thankful to get their weapon back without getting fried that they don't forget the lesson learned.
 
hoytinak,

I wouldn't burn anyone over the weapon issue, even a fellow soldier who wanted me to burn someone else. You have a "special" day!

Major
 
I once "Lost" a gun (but not quite)

Worst thing I had was about ten years ago, when I felt I needed a break from lugging around my S&W4006 and switched to a PPK .380. At one point in the day I thought "Sh!!t, where did I leave the gun?:eek:" only to find it on my hip when I reached to pat the place where it should be:D

After years of carrying a hefty full size pistol, the PPK was so light I literally did not feel it being there.

Not long after that I switched back to my 4006.

Brgds,

Danny
 
Yes. I moved in the 1980's and at that time I was staying in an extended stay place and then rented a house for a while until my situation stabilized. I had moved a number of rifles to my Dad's for storage (bit of a pain since it was 1000 miles). I had some with me, some at friends, and some at "home". To make a long story short, early this year I was looking for a certain Weatherby..... couldn't find it and I had thought I had retrieved all of my guns from the various locations..... after some soul searching and a trip to my old home, I discovered that rifle and a couple others that I had forgot about. The firearms just as easily could have been stolen.

Those rifles had been there for 20 years. Easy to forget about things after that much time. I had replaced them with other rifles during those 20 years and never really thought about them. It is one of the reasons that I know I might not even notice if a certain firearm is taken from me for potentially years before I determine it to be missing.

It is especially easy to misplace a handgun. They turn up in drawers or closets from time to time. I even found one inside a box I had in my garage that I was going through to throw away rather than just dumping the box in the trash without looking.

Same thing happens with old gun boxes that I saved. Some are quite valuable from a box perspective. Those I find in boxes of junk I have stashed in my garage from time to time.
 
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i "misplaced" all 4 mags for my kel tec p32 shortly after i bought it.

after about 2hrs of looking i found them in the fridge on top of the soda.

why or how they got in there i still dont know.
 
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