That looks like a gun!!

[vvet762]

Well, I'm officially an old man today since I just signed up for retirement benefits at the SSA. But that isn't the reason for this thread. I was in the turn lane to the Social Security Admin on Bluffton Road in Fort Wayne, IN and had to stop and back up. Sure enough, there was a single stack plastic 9mm gun complete with holster and two mags laying in the turn lane. Of course it was in pieces because it probably fell off someones car. I didn't want a bad guy to find the gun and cause a mass shooting so I called 911 and a LEO came out to retrieve the pile of parts. Now, your thoughts. Should I have just gathered up the pieces and rebuild what was broken, if anything? Had I kept the little 9mm I would probably have gotten stopped by a new LEO that would discover that I have a LTCH and ran the serial numbers through their data base (illegal, I believe) and it could have come back stolen and linked to numerous murders. This isn't the first gun I've found. Years ago I fount a Jennings 22 in a rental car. I did give the little gun to a friend who was the customs agent at the airport. It came back negative and I got to keep it. What would you have done?

 

[Birds Away]

I think you did the right thing. As for me, it isn't my gun so I want no part of it. If it can't be returned to the owner than that is about the only solution.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I probably would have done what you did. It's not mine. It belongs to somebody else and should be returned to them. If I had been the one to lose it, even though it got damaged, I would appreciate a Good Samaritan returning my property.

 

[PGRChaplain]

You did Good! Welcome to the Old Farts!

 

[223 Gunner]

You did the right thing. A 3 or 4 hundred dollar broken pistol isn't worth the potential headache.

 

[snorko]

Someone probably put it on the roof of their car, holster and all, then forgot about it and drove away.

 

[medcoxo]

Yep, report it and have no part of it..

 

[Gluemanz28]

Waiting for the spoof thread for this one.

 

[Shadow Goose]

I agree with 223 Gunner. Out of all the courses of action that you could have taken, I believe that was this was the best course. Not worth all the grief it could cause you.

 

[printcraft]

I could have sworn I saw the same thing one late night in the road directly in front of the sheriffs dept......
I was on the way to get my kid from the gym and thought ..... Nah couldn't be .... so I drove on.
I came back by about 10 minutes later and a squad car was out there with his lights on.
Somebody left their duty belt on the back of the car and drove off?

 

[pudly]

The important question: Where do you live that you are finding all these abandoned guns laying around?

 

[Fullmag]

You did the right thing. There could be a horrible back story to why that gun was on the the road and some difficult questions as to why it's in your possession. It's not like finding money on the ground where anybody you ask will say it's theirs.

 

[vvet762]

I talked with my sister yesterday, who is a police officer in Greenwood, IN, and she agreed with all of you. Now I'm thinking about trying to get the gun back if it isn't claimed. Fat chance but it can't hurt to try, right.

 

[rob63]

Agree that you did the right thing. Regarding your question of what I would have done: knowing myself like I do, I would have looked at it and drove right on past it. About 1/2 hour later I would have thought to myself, "I wonder if that was a gun?"

 

[SEIndSAM]

Well, I'm officially an old man today since I just signed up for retirement benefits at the SSA. But that isn't the reason for this thread. I was in the turn lane to the Social Security Admin on Bluffton Road in Fort Wayne, IN and had to stop and back up. Sure enough, there was a single stack plastic 9mm gun complete with holster and two mags laying in the turn lane. Of course it was in pieces because it probably fell off someones car. I didn't want a bad guy to find the gun and cause a mass shooting so I called 911 and a LEO came out to retrieve the pile of parts. Now, your thoughts. Should I have just gathered up the pieces and rebuild what was broken, if anything? Had I kept the little 9mm I would probably have gotten stopped by a new LEO that would discover that I have a LTCH and ran the serial numbers through their data base (illegal, I believe) and it could have come back stolen and linked to numerous murders. This isn't the first gun I've found. Years ago I fount a Jennings 22 in a rental car. I did give the little gun to a friend who was the customs agent at the airport. It came back negative and I got to keep it. What would you have done?

Someone discovered a new & unique way to dispose of Jennings guns, just leave them in the random rental car.....
Yesterday must have been "Lets lose things day". I found a wallet laying on the ground in the parking lot of a BP I frequent. Gave it to the owner of the gas station and he said the owner retrieved it about an hour later...Idiot put it on the roof of his car after doing "pay at the pump" and drove off when finished...