a friend LOST his Pistol...recovered by Police

[target1911]

Me and some friends took a motorcycle ride from Ft Worth down to the hill country this past weekend.

My friend, who we will call B, put his little NAA 22mag revolver in its holster in his boot as we leave the motel. We take a ride from Kerrville to Luckenbach. We walk around there for bout an hr. As we load up to ride back to the motel, he digs his smokes out of his boot. His pistol is GONE!!
We make great time gettin back to the room to make sure he had not left it there. It was no where to be found. He goes to the front desk to see if it had been found. Indeed it had, by the front clerk in the parking lot. He turned it in the the Police.
(to save save all the details and to keep it short)....
The LEOs were very cool about it and returned it to him.
They did have to call the property room officer to see if he would come back down there release it. To our amazement he did....it was about 8:00 at this time. They said it would take about an hr for him to return and they would call us.
They called and when we got back down there the Officer that took the report met us outside with the gun and signed it over to B after looking at his DL.



NOW...lets back up to the front desk clerk...who is a grown man about 35 yrs old......
According to the clerk himself....
He was in the parkinglot picking up trash. He found the pistol right where B's bike was parked. He picks it up...looks at it...Thinks its a TOY....cocks the hammer and PULLS the TRIGGER..:banghead:. needless to say, it goes BANG....he and my friend are VERY lucky noone got hurt with all of the many possibilities that could have happened.

 

[damien]

This is all your friend's fault, but there really needs to be some better education concerning firearms in this country. I am surprised this happened in Texas. This would probably be the normal outcome in Illinois.

 

[target1911]

I totally agree that it was his fault as does he..

 

[PPGMD]

Yikes an AD from the guy who found the gun. Yeah it could have turned out to be much worse.

 

[jaholder1971]

WOW! This has bad juju written all over it.

your friend should consider himself very lucky.

 

[sierrabravo45]

Lets address the real problem.

You being his friend, how could you let him own a NAA Revolver.

 

[Deacon Blues]

Glad to hear it all turned out okay, aside from the clerk's ND. When I read the subject line, I immediately thought of my brother; he could lose anything. When something like this happens, though, you've got to rethink your mode of carry.

 

[ihopewewin]

I'm just curious as to why the guy decided to try his luck asuming it was a "fake" gun.

 

[Jimmy Newman]

Have you seen how small an NAA revolver is? If I hadn't seen one before I might assume it was a fake, too.

Of course, since I know anything about guns, I would CHECK before pulling the trigger...

 

[Zundfolge]

I'm just curious as to why the guy decided to try his luck asuming it was a "fake" gun.

If I didn't already know about NAA mini revolvers, I'd probably think it was a toy too. http://www.naaminis.com/magnum.html

 

[never_retreat]

PPGMD Yikes an AD from the guy who found the gun. Yeah it could have turned out to be much worse.

It's not an AD when you pull the trigger on purpose. This guy was just an idiot.

 

[target1911]

It's not an AD when you pull the trigger on purpose. This guy was just an idiot.

+10000

YES HE WAS.....

My friend vowed to NEVER carry it in his boot again...atleast not without a retention strap. I will be making him a new holster WITH retention.

 

[Neo-Luddite]

This would probably be the normal outcome in Illinois.

Yes, except that;

1) Charges would have been very publicly not filed against the poor man
who pulled the trigger of the gun he found.
2) Multiple charges against the gun owner (at least a couple of felony
charges). They would later be quietly dropped if he had a CCW permit
from another state but the gun would be forfeit. Tourist dollars talk.
If an actual Illinois resident however---jail time baby!
3) A rally would be staged decrying the fact that such a weapon could have
ever been made.


--hey, didn't they make a belt buckle that those things snapped into also? Made it look like an odd decoration.

 

[kd7nqb]

1. The motel guy was a moron for pulling the trigger

2. Your friend made a big mistake lucky all worked out

3. Personally I think your friend is pretty lucky that a "gun guy" did not find the gun I know of many pretty honest gun guys that would have sad. "Sweet I always liked these"

 

[RKBABob]

Oh, come on guys... cut the clerk a little slack. I've handled one at Cabela's, and I still can't hardly believe that that itty bitty thing is a gun!

 

[.cheese.]

not the first time somebody has thought one of those NAA teeny-weeny revolvers were a toy. I've read about it happening more than once.

What disturbs me more is how often people lose their guns. It seems to happen a lot. I'm the kind of guy who is constantly paying attention to whether or not all of my stuff is with me. My wallet, keys, knife, gun, phone, etc.... I'm always constantly mindful of whether or not anything is missing.

It amazes me when one of my parents lose their keys or their wallet.... but to lose a gun to me just seems like it could never happen.

I guess that's how everybody feels until it happens though.

 

[BruceB]

Quite a few years back, before the present level of paranoia about searches, body scanners, X-rays and God knows what-all at airports, some friends flew to an IPSC shoot in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

One of the guys had one of the NAA mini-revolvers, and the BELT BUCKLE "holster" for it.....with the gun inserted, it just looked like another fancy "western" jeans-belt buckle. He just took it along as sort of a joke, he said.

He forgot he was wearing it on departure day.

While actually in line at the airport security checkpoint, he remembered! One of the other guys noticed that he suddenly went white in the face and great beads of sweat started rolling down his face. He had to walk through the metal detector, and of course he tripped it.

Here's the funny part: the lady security person waved her wand over him and it naturally beeped on the buckle and pistol. She then made him turn the buckle over for a look, and then ALLOWED HIM TO BOARD THE AIRPLANE!

This was in Canada, of course, and he was breaking a LOT of laws just by having the gun anywhere outside a secure lockup, let alone carrying it in public. Jail time was a very strong possibility, especially with the airport involvement. However, a totally inept "security" type saved his bacon, BIG time.

 

[Geronimo45]

not the first time somebody has thought one of those NAA teeny-weeny revolvers were a toy.

Yup. I've seen key-ring revolvers out of claw machines that looked more realistic than the NAAs.

I'm the kind of guy who is constantly paying attention to whether or not all of my stuff is with me

Same here.

Glad nobody was hurt, and everything worked out... but I'm guessing that clerk jumped about ten feet when it went off.