Stolen rifle recovered **Update: Used in suicide**

Good news for you. I'm still waiting to hear about 5 handguns taken in '85.

Damn dude

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you'll probably keep waiting.

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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you'll probably keep waiting.

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Ya think!
Barretta .25
Colt Combat Commander .45
Ruger Single Six .22
Browning .45 (that one still hurts)

Shite, forgot the Garcia .9MM

Prayers sent. That sucks man. There are few worse feelings than being robbed blind.

In addition to the two guns they took:

Yukon
Leopold binos
2 Sure fires
2 Gerber blades
Half my wardrobe (left all the camo)
Passport
And a bunch of other shite. It was 20 or so items. Insurance didn't come close to replacing it all.

Had my first deer rifle (Ruger .270) given to be my dad stolen in a separate incident in 07 that's still out there.

Sucks.


Eta: nb4getasafe

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Anybody else have stolen gun/property recovery stories?

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No, the police dive team told me that my boating accident was too tragic for them to be able to locate my sunken collection.

Glad to hear you got something back.

I sincerely hope you never have to deal with the Memphis police. One of the most frustrating experiences of my life. Long story short:

The perps tried to write a check at a Target in Memphis with my name on it after I cancelled the account. Target sends me a letter notifying me that I owed them money. Called target and they said they could retrieve tapes down to the second at the precise register but could only do so if an officer requested. I told my investigating officer this and stayed on him about it. He, however, dropped the ball and waited to long to call them. They "clean" the tapes every 30 days and the footage was lost.

That coupled with the complete lackadaisical approach taken by everyone I talked to there, has skewed my opinion of cops in general but primarily the ones in that city.

I have no beef whatsoever with the locals though. I play golf regularly with the ex chief here. Good dude.

I have a benelli still missing but I did get my 10 ga back. I wish cops and wardens would run gun numbers during routine license checks and traffic stops because a lot of people have no clue they are in possession of a stolen gun.

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I wish cops and wardens would run gun numbers during routine license checks and traffic stops because a lot of people have no clue they are in possession of a stolen gun.

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Last time I was pulled over they did. Just so happens it was my weapon in my possession. They don't do that everywhere?

When i was 12 or 13 I came home to find my house had been broken into. They stole all my dad's guns.

He was at work one day a few months later and a lake Charles officer came into the garage and handed him his .38. They'd found it during a drug raid. Only gun out of 7 or 8 that he got back.

Funny part of the burglary story was that it was the first time I ever saw a dildo. The thieves had rummaged through my stepmom's stuff and tossed the dildo on the floor. The cops were there taking Polaroids of the crime scene and there in the middle of a lot of photographs was "mr. Squirmy" (said that right on the box).

That's awesome. I'm still holding out hope I'll get a call one day about my Sigma and/or my old Recon.


I think Alx had one returned after 10+ years IIRC