You Ever Forget Your Gun Somewhere and Someone Else Finds It?

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During my time as an aircraft ordnance mechanic with what will remain an unnamed AF/ANG flying unit, I reported to work one morning to the hangar and found an M4 carbine leaned up against the water fountain in the hallway outside the men's restroom. There was no one anywhere as it was still very early. I removed the magazine and saw it was fully loaded. There was no round in the chamber.

Similar story. We were trading one of our medics (E5 type) for a senior medic E6 type. Our outgoing medic somehow left his rifle on the helipad. About 30 minutes after he left, a helicopter touched down and out runs our medic we said farewell to. Runs off the chopper, grabs his rifle, waves to the base camera, and climbs back on the chopper. I can only imagine that conversation with the pilots. As the pilots who flew the SI-8 personnel choppers in our region, didn't usually speak English very well or at all.
 
During a bivouac in Basic Training we were warned of the penalty for losing our weapon. Not wanting to put my M16A1 in my sleeping bag, I unhooked the sling at the butt and attached it to my wrist. Fast asleep in my shelter half, I felt a tug on my arm. I grabbed the barrel, and gave a good jab with the rifle. What followed was a string of obscenities, followed by silence.

The next morning, my Drill Sgt. had a pretty good shiner. I suffered no repercussions, probably because he was not sure who was occupying which tents in the dark.
 
Years ago, I had told my wife I’d skip the after noon hunt with the guys and hang out with her and during they day she called me and said she was going to work late, so I should go hunting. Already planning on working late myself, I rushed home, grabbed my gear, cooler, and made it there just before the birds started flying good. Yep, I left my shotgun at home. Ever since, I take two with me when I go, just incase someone else forgets...
 
At times when I might loose something like in a restroom, in and out of a vehicle, before I leave a seat in a resteraunt, etc. Discretely I will feel for my wallet and my CC. This has helped me keep from loosing either item. Just make it look like I am sdjusting my pants. Has kept me from leaving home and leaving something (usually my wallet) behind.
 
I'm always misplacing guns in the house, usually I hide it and after going nuts find it in the most unusual places like behind books or inside the fruit bowl covered with paper towels. Usually my GF remembers everything I do. Finally put everything but my go-to(s) in the safe.
 
Not a gun, but after a trip to our members only range that was empty except for me that day, I took the wife out to dinner and then went home. When I sat down to clean the AR's I'd shot, I realized I had taken one of the suppressors off before I left the range. Made the 1hr drive back to the range at 11pm and there it was, laying on the bench behind where I was shooting. Whew.

Did lose one of the wife's CZ pistols a few years ago. I didn't really leave it somewhere. Some dude took it and her purse from me at gunpoint while I was sitting in my truck waiting for the wife to get her hair cut. Poor situational awareness. I was asleep! Believe it or not, about two years later the local police called and said it had been recovered in a felony drug bust in an adjacent county. She picked it up and I cleaned up a little rust and it's almost as good as new. She still doesn't trust me with her purse or guns!
 
Eh, guns come and guns go. There are always more in the safe. ;)

I've never misplaced a gun. I've misplaced a lot of things, but never a gun.
 
The closest I have come was when I left a Romanian Sar 3 in the club rifle rack.

I had too much stuff and was in a hurry......I made it about 10 miles when I realized I didnt remember putting the AK in the car.

We stopped to check and headed directly back to the range, where the rifle was right where I left it.
 
No way, when I leave the range I double check my bag, then check it again before I drive off. Same on a trip, I touch my item and sound off also, touch the wallet, say out "wallet", touch my phone and say out "phone", touch my gun and say out "gun".

The Japanese do this in a work environment, studies show that pointing to something or touching it and also calling it out verbally reduces the chance of error. Makes sense to me.
 
Very good advice, Lionking,,, I do the same,,,,I can check my gun, wallet, keys and all just by shifting my hips,,,,wiggle my arms for my cell phone, and turn my head for my hearing aids....’got um all’
 
No way, when I leave the range I double check my bag, then check it again before I drive off. Same on a trip, I touch my item and sound off also, touch the wallet, say out "wallet", touch my phone and say out "phone", touch my gun and say out "gun".

The Japanese do this in a work environment, studies show that pointing to something or touching it and also calling it out verbally reduces the chance of error. Makes sense to me.
It’s really important to keep your head in the game – particularly keeping track of firearms; even to the point of being ridiculous.

For example, after a session at the pistol range I actually run my hand across the bench to create a tactile memory of confirming no guns were left behind.

More than once coming home from the range I’ve pulled off the road to go through the range bag in a panic thinking I might have left a gun on the bench.
 
No way, when I leave the range I double check my bag, then check it again before I drive off. Same on a trip, I touch my item and sound off also, touch the wallet, say out "wallet", touch my phone and say out "phone", touch my gun and say out "gun".

The Japanese do this in a work environment, studies show that pointing to something or touching it and also calling it out verbally reduces the chance of error. Makes sense to me.
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Quit smoking in 1989. Had gotten into the habit of touching left breast pocket for cigarette pack and right pants pocket for lighter for decades before leaving house. Took another few years to get out of the habit. Now do it with the wallet.
 
In my own house. Came home the night my daughter was born, leaving my wife and her at the hospital. It had been a long 30-some-odd-hours. Sat down at the PC, taking off my pistol and setting it on the chair next to the one I was on, do do a bit of online business before turning in.

I don't remember if I went back to the hospital the next day unarmed, or took a different gun, but I left that one there on that chair. When my wife and I returned home with the new baby, she found the gun sitting there when she went to the PC and ribbed me about it by asking me if it was a gift for her for giving birth.

This was in 2008, about six weeks after getting my Florida carry license. I had not previously carried since leaving law enforcement over a decade earlier.
 
No way, when I leave the range I double check my bag, then check it again before I drive off. Same on a trip, I touch my item and sound off also, touch the wallet, say out "wallet", touch my phone and say out "phone", touch my gun and say out "gun".

The Japanese do this in a work environment, studies show that pointing to something or touching it and also calling it out verbally reduces the chance of error. Makes sense to me.

Flashback to every Army layout and inventory I ever did. Thanks.
 
Miss placed a few in my own home. Found a few I didn't know I had. Never outside of my house.
 
Not yet! The only thing I ever left behind was my belt (140 mile round trip). gimme time I am only 65.
 
I think I might be kind of OCD, so no. Worry that I might misplace it is the obsession and repeatedly checking is the compulsion. I'm good. Honest.
 
It happens more than most know. I had returned a few myself over the yrs! My favorite one was the Agent that left his tactical bag in the elevator with his gear and duty weapon in it.
 
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