FROGO207
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About a year ago a friend (just a friend not real close) asked me to hold a couple of rim fire pistols for her. She was afraid that her husband was going to use them on himself or her. Of course I said yes and had her sign a statement with date, serial#, and her permission to have her firearms in my possession etc. I told her when she wanted them back that I would get them for her and give them back TO HER so she could do what she wanted with them. He has since gotten a handle on the problem (I am told so anyway) and life goes on.... Fast forward to this Thurs (yesterday) evening and HE approaches me and in a nice sort of way ? and demands HIS firearms back ASAP. I tell him that they are in a safe deposit box and he will have to wait until the bank opens. In the meantime I call the wife and ask her if it is OK for me to return them to him. She says yes, Then I tell her that I need to sign them back over to HER (and be done with it):banghead:. After I write this I will be delivering them.
The problem is that he is not a dumb person and there is the real possibility that this may happen again. If it does I think he will head over here and try to get them back from me again as I was the one he now knows she chose to leave them with last time. I really don't want to have the local sheriff over with an search warrant looking for his stolen guns he thinks I have!! If this does happen I plan to tell her that she needs to take them to the local PD and have them store them there in the evidence locker or get a safe deposit box for them so that I don't have to deal with this again. I will also call then and log with the local PD that this is what I told her to do if that does happen. The outcome is that by her telling him where the firearms were the security of them remaining hidden by me is now non existent as he now knows I had them. She has lost that option unfortunately. Would you have handled it any differently or same as me??
The problem is that he is not a dumb person and there is the real possibility that this may happen again. If it does I think he will head over here and try to get them back from me again as I was the one he now knows she chose to leave them with last time. I really don't want to have the local sheriff over with an search warrant looking for his stolen guns he thinks I have!! If this does happen I plan to tell her that she needs to take them to the local PD and have them store them there in the evidence locker or get a safe deposit box for them so that I don't have to deal with this again. I will also call then and log with the local PD that this is what I told her to do if that does happen. The outcome is that by her telling him where the firearms were the security of them remaining hidden by me is now non existent as he now knows I had them. She has lost that option unfortunately. Would you have handled it any differently or same as me??