Wow. After 48 years.

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SaxonPig

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Here in Arkansas a day or so ago a drug dealer was caught with a handgun reported stolen in New York in 1967. I had a stolen gun returned after 18 years and I thought that was amazing. Nothing compared to this. Wonder if the owner is still alive? Wonder if the gun is still legal in New York with all the the horrible gun laws the Democrats in that state rammed through a couple years ago?

In other news some woman tried to pawn 8 guns. Problem #1 was that they were stolen. Problem #2 was that as a convicted felon she is prohibited by law from having a gun in her possession.
 
I had a stolen gun returned after 18 years and I thought that was amazing.
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About a year back, I got a visit from a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent. He had a gun that he was hoping to return to the original owner.

The shop (under prior ownership) had been burglarized in 1983, and the gun was found a couple of years later in the hands of a convicted felon. Apparently, the guy kept appealing things, so the gun had to remain in evidence.

I guess he stopped trying in 2014, and the gun was free to be released at that point. The nicest part was the fact that we were able to track down the (then) owner's son and return it to him.
 
Back in 1985 I had a Walther PPK/S stolen and wonder where that gun is every time I look at the PPK I replaced the stolen on with.

I have an FFL and never had a request for a trace on the serial number.
 
had been burglarized in 1983, and the gun was found a couple of years later in the hands of a convicted felon. Apparently, the guy kept appealing things, so the gun had to remain in evidence.
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Wow, just wow.

I would grind my teeth right down to the gums thinking about a gun I OWN being out of my hands that long and being powerless to do anything about it.

I might even (gasp - I KNOW...working within the system!) try to get involved through my legislators to have some kind of legal relief built into the law. I mean could some sworn statement or document about the gun be good enough so they didn't have to hold the actual gun?
 
I wonder how many stolen guns are turned in during buy back programs and then destroyed without having the numbers run on them.
 
Unfortunately, I still look at serial numbers of some Glock 23's when I see them thinking my stolen gun might turn up. Checking serial numbers makes dealers "uncomfortable", so you have to do it casually.

Funny story SaxonPig.
 
I had two guns stolen at two different times . The first was in 1969 a 22 revolver the brother of my wife stayed with us for two or three days just before new years . On new years eve he was shot and killed with that gun .

A week or so after the killing two agents came to my home and ask if I owned a 22 pistol and if so would like to see it . I went to retrieve it only to find it gone . My ex-brother-inlaw had took it and had is used on himself .
 
In a lot of places its hard to get your lawfully owned guns back that were stolen from you after they are recovered.

I'll bet if it were the other way around and a gun stolen from Arkansas was recovered in NY that there would be no attempt to return it!
 
There are some real horror stories out there about owners trying to get their lawfully owned firearms back from some LE agencys. Thankfully, where I worked we made a real effort to return property, including firearms available for release, back to the lawful owners. Some firearms were recovered many states away, and many years after stolen. In such situations, it was not unusual that lawful owners could not always be located. Sometimes owners that could be located and contacted had become prohibited possessors....
 
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