Ever misplace a handgun?

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Actually yes but we tore the house apart until we found it. My GF was carrying my LCP while she was working around the house and out in the yard. She came in to cool off and took a nap on the recliner couch. When she woke up she realized she no longer had it on her. We looked in and under the couch, searched the entire property then went through the house a second time.

Finally I flipped the couch over and the little guy was stuck in a fold that we missed the 10 other times we search that couch.

That was the one and only time anything has been misplaced. We have a small child and safety is our first priority. This happened on a weekend while the kid was away thankfully.
 
I loose everything. I just got back from Europe and I'm afraid to look through my suitcase and see what I left 5000 miles away. I've haven't really misplaced a gun, yet.
 
More times than I'd care to admit. I have 2 kids, and keeping them away from my guns [unless I'm with them, of course] is a top priority. As a result, I'll lock up whichever handgun I'm using for HD that week in it's hard plastic case, then hide it so well that even I can't find it. Heck, as I type this, I'm currently at a loss to explain where my newest Cold Steel knife could have gotten off to.:o
 
I have yet to lose track of any weaponry. I lose tools instead.

My father however.....

He had a brand new Smith stainless .357 back in 2006. We went on a trip to south central Oregon together and broke it in. After the trip he misplaced it. He thought someone stole it.

Earlier this year he was out in his garage looking for something. He pulled a empty shopping bag out of a wheelbarrow and there was his pistol. It had been "hiding" there for almost exactly 5 years.
 
Amusing thread.

As I type, I'm a mite confused about the precise location of a S&W 642. Oh, it's in the house some place, but I'll be hanged if I can tell you where. I once briefly misplaced a Springfield 1911 hiding it in a foot locker and then forgetting where I'd put it. I actually opened the footlocker to retrieve something else - "oh, that's where you are!" :o
 
Interesting thread, heraring everyone's tales...I've lost keys, cellphones, cameras, coats, pens, glasses, tools and flashlights, but I can thankfully say that I've never lost a gun. Probably a matter of priorities...I just pay more attention to a gun. I'd flip out and have a stroke if I couldn't find one.
 
Once and never again.

Though I say there are two degrees of "lost" first actually being you put it somewhere and lost it. Secondly you put it somewhere and forgot about it.:p

I mean I buy guns all the time that get put away in the safes, where they stay and don't get thought about so they get forgotten about. They are locked up safe, in a safe, so that doesn't really count.

BUT if you have a gun out of its safe, place it somewhere and forget where...?

I came home from work one day and put my s&w 5906 on a shelf in my closet (I never leave guns there, nor did I carry that gun often) before digging though the laundry to put together a load for the wash. Went down stairs to start the load, went out to the garage to work on a truck, then dinner, then blah blah blah... and realized I didn't have my gun. Forgot I had been carrying the 5906, grabbed my 1911 and went about my day. Went to the safe the next day and saw that the 5906 was missing and that's when I freaked out. Tore the house apart for two days. Beat myself up over that. Now I don't keep more than one gun out of the safe and its always in one of a few spots if its not in my holster.

Never again. That also made me step up my game for cataloging my guns.
 
70+ years

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A friend lost a shotgun when he was a young teenager.

It was his only gun at the time and he had worked a whole summer on a farm to earn it.

He found the shotgun in the basement of the house after he turned 80 years old when he was moving some stuff around.

The shotshells with it still went bang.

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I had a Delta Elite go missing about 10 years ago.

I had left it on the picnick table at my cabin.

It was there for a month before I got back up there to retrieve it.
 
I just spent about 45 minutes, up and down, looking for a Walther P99 I had out the day before yesterday and failed to remember where I put it. Lo and behold, I stuck it up on a 007/Bond display that is set up to display guns, but not left with live guns on it (I have an airgun and dummy gun on the display, but only put real guns on it when showing it). At that one moment, I just stuck the P99 up there to get it off my workbench (which is across the room). Sure glad I noticed it, as I was going nuts there at the end.
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Quite frequently actually. I have a 20 something pound Mine Coon that will smother any gun that gets laid on something soft. The first gun I bought after moving to Idaho was a Bond Arms 410 derringer. I was so giddy I went to get the neighbor, and when i came back the gun wasn't in its box. We looked all over for that damn thing, and somewhere in the chaos, the cat got hungry and it was just layin there on the sofa. First cat I know of that ccws. lol. So now, if I can't find one, I just peel one of his legs up and its always there.
 
No, but some one has. Got up this morning for work, got my coffee, went to grab some pills in the kitchen cupboard, and low and behold setting on top of wife's 38 next to my other P-40 is and XD. Got me, how could some one forget there gun ? :(
 
Left a ruger security six in the woods deer hunting in the snow 40+ years ago.Got to the truck went aww s###.It was a long walk in the dark to find it .That was the last time I carried a pistol in a holster not made without a saftey strap .
 
Haven't lost a gun yet, but this summer my son and his girlfriend came by to borrow our sleeping bags for a camping trip to the Grand Canyon. First night she complained about the lumpy bag. Next morning my son opened up the bag all the way and pulled two baggies of jewelry out of the foot of the sleeping bag. :rolleyes:
 
What are the consequences?

I can't find a 9mm. There is the possibility that it was found and stolen by a contractor working in my house, on the other hand I may have hidden it someplace so special that even I can't remember where it is. Should someone use it in a crime, I'm responsible, no? Should I call the police to protect myself, or will I just get into even more trouble? I don't have the serial number because I purchased it years ago, but I suppose I could check every gun shop I've ever been to and see if there's any chance they have the serial numbers. What would you do?
 
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