A friend I grew up with likes guns just like I do.
He got a marlin .22 when he was 6 and a H&R 410 when he was
9 we both went to the gunshop and bought ourselves SKS's when the law changed allowing imported surplus military rifles.
Well anyway my friend fell on hard times and was living out of a travel trailer on his dad's property. He put his rifle collection in his dad's gunsafe and kept his pistols in the trailer.
The neighbor kids break into his trailer and steal his S&W10mm,ruger MKII, tokarev, ruger blackhawk but thankfully don't find the beretta92 under the pillow.
So my buddy is finally back on his feet gets a place of his own and I ask him to get his rifles out of mothballs and put them in my gun room so we can go shooting, SKS, AK hunter, savage 30-06, a couple of .22s an ithacha double and a few others.
So he goes out to his dad's place and finds out his dad is divorcing the stepmom.
He goes to check out the safe (in the barn) finds it open. Half his guns missing and the others with a thick layer of rust.
Sadly he takes what is left to my house and I clean them up
and store them with my guns.
Turns out his step mother left his dad and had her brother empty the gun safe of over 50K worth of his dad's rifles and pistols as well as my friends SKS, childhood .22 and other sentimental gift guns.
He calls his now EX stepmom and asks her for his guns back.
The phonecall to the stepmom brings denial she took anything.
Let this be a warning not to trust your guns to anyone but yourself and make sure they are insured.
He got a marlin .22 when he was 6 and a H&R 410 when he was
9 we both went to the gunshop and bought ourselves SKS's when the law changed allowing imported surplus military rifles.
Well anyway my friend fell on hard times and was living out of a travel trailer on his dad's property. He put his rifle collection in his dad's gunsafe and kept his pistols in the trailer.
The neighbor kids break into his trailer and steal his S&W10mm,ruger MKII, tokarev, ruger blackhawk but thankfully don't find the beretta92 under the pillow.
So my buddy is finally back on his feet gets a place of his own and I ask him to get his rifles out of mothballs and put them in my gun room so we can go shooting, SKS, AK hunter, savage 30-06, a couple of .22s an ithacha double and a few others.
So he goes out to his dad's place and finds out his dad is divorcing the stepmom.
He goes to check out the safe (in the barn) finds it open. Half his guns missing and the others with a thick layer of rust.
Sadly he takes what is left to my house and I clean them up
and store them with my guns.
Turns out his step mother left his dad and had her brother empty the gun safe of over 50K worth of his dad's rifles and pistols as well as my friends SKS, childhood .22 and other sentimental gift guns.
He calls his now EX stepmom and asks her for his guns back.
The phonecall to the stepmom brings denial she took anything.
Let this be a warning not to trust your guns to anyone but yourself and make sure they are insured.