Anybody ever lost a gun?

[esq_stu]

I prefer to say "temporarily misplaced" or that I was "a might bewildered" for a time.

I can only add that when it happened, I was in a state of extreme dismay until I thought of the right place to look for it.

 

[nutty7462]

Not quire the same, but when I was a kid I found a gun in a hotel bed side table. I used to check every drawer I could find in any room we stayed in and apparently some guy left his in our room. My mom about freaked out and it was taken to the office where the older lady in charge was pissed that they guy had left it and a kid had found it. I assume she called either him or the cops or both.

I was probably 6 or 7 at the time. This was in New Branfels, Tex.

 

[OOOXOOO]

Never lost one, however I did find a single shot 16 gauge shot gun standing up against a tree two miles from any trail or road. It was still loaded and had surface rust all over it and the stock had a small split in it. I tacked a buisness card to the tree in case someone went looking for it. Never got a call but I did get a free gun.

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

I used to run PPC and Bullseye matches at our local Rod & Gun Club and we had many corredtion officers who shot. They were allowed to draw pistols, from work, to compete on their prison team. A prison range officer and unofficial team captain left his department drawn S&W Mod. 10 on the roof of his car on the way to work one day and the milkman found it in the middle of a back road and turned it in the the NYSP. That practice of using prison guns was revoked!!

My dad and I were driving by the prison one day when there had been an escape. There was a officer driving out from one of the buildings, outside the wall, with a cased rifle on the roof of his car. Dad flagged him down and problem solved.

About 20 years ago I was duck hunting and left my 1100 12 ga. leaning against a tree on our gated piece of lake property. Sure glad it was private as the gun was still there when I drove the 15 miles back to the lake

 

[AirForceShooter]

USAF Forward Air Control ground type.
Assigned to the First Australian Task Force.
Among the first to be issued the M-16. No A , No 1. No forward assist, no cleaning stuff. Made by Mattel it's swell.

A bar. Lots of drinking. Aussies and Kiwi's do that.
My CO an aussie Wing Commander declaring my 16 was not fit as a proper weapon promptly threw the first one into the water. Very Deep water.
Upon sobering up and reporting the next day I was ordered to get an proper weapon. A FAL.
When Wing commanders ask for something they get it. This guy was mad as a Hatter. He had the Aussie DSO, DRC and a USAF Sliver Star and had been put up for the Victoria Cross.
Took me 2 days to figure how to strip, clean. shoot and get used to it.

Later had to report back to my base unit in Saigon. They went a little crazy seeing me with a FAL. Remember Curtis LeMay was the guy who first adopted the 16. So the USAF types weren't happy. Turn in the FAL, reissued a 16.
Get back to the Aussie's, lose the 16 get a new FAL.

Kept that one til I rotated back. I didn't care how heavy it was. Next to an M-14 it's a fantastic battle rifle. We didn't know then, how bad the M-16 was.

AFS

 

[Claude Clay]

if i was a rifle hiding in an apartment......i would be in a closet standing up against a wall with my butt in a boot and my muzzle safely ensconced in the long sleeve of a jacket.
save time: look in the last place first

 

[230RN]

That d@mned car roof thing is a pain. I made it a rule to never place anything on the roof. Got home from work one day a while ago, unloaded grocery bags, etc., put my belly pack on the roof, went upstairs, put down all my stuff, and wondered where the gun was. Looked all through the grocery bags, etc, and finally went out onto the balcony and looked, and there it was, still on the roof. Scurry-hurry back downstairs to retrieve it. (Phew!)

Left my cane up there once while getting into the car, drove down the street and heard this clattering behind me. Looked in mirror, saw my cane bouncing/sliding along.

Friend left his cell phone on my roof once when we went to dinner. It was a pretty windy day. I went back outside after a while to get something from the car, saw the cell phone lying there on the ground in the next parking slot, brought it in, was going to turn it in to the restaurant Maitre D', but brought it back to our table to show it off and mention how stupid some people could be. Fortunately, the words were just coming out of my mouth when he said, "Hey, that's my cell phone!"

Couldn't call it smart luck that my mouth was still shut, so it must've been plain ole dumb luck.

 

[cyclist]

Go to your bedroom and strip the sheets off and flip the mattress over, look before you drop it. Also look under the bed, and behind the bedroom door standing there in plain sight, and look behind the dresser, or under the dresser if it's a big one, or inside the dresser behind the drawers. Also check behind the refrigerator and behind the stove, pull them away from the wall a bit to do this. If you have a drop ceiling look up above the ceiling tiles. If you have a bookcase or large entertainment/tv center then look up on top of it and behind the front decorative trim. In the bathroom look under the sink, and up under the top of it perhaps hanging on a hook or nail or balanced and stuffed on top on the water lines or drain pipe. There are lots of hiding places in apartments, could have been a "friend" who found it and hid it on you, then later forgot about his/her joke of hiding it. If you have a carport parking area with an outside storage area then look very carefully in there for it, and use a flash light, and move stuff around a lot while doing so. Also look up on the tops of the beams under the roof of the carport as things sometimes go hiding in places like that when someone doesn't want it inside for some reason and want it in a not so obvious place where a "normal" thief won't think to look for it. Do you have any large framed pictures or paintings on the walls in the apartment, could it be balanced on the top of the picture frame seemingly hiding in plain sight?

Inch by inch, if it's there then you'll find it, maybe. And if you do then please reply back to this thread and tell us where you found it no matter how embarassing it might be.

 

[bogie]

It's time to do the laundry...

 

[Dravur]

I have not lost any....

But I have found guns in my house that I had no idea that I bought, did not remember buying and was not sure where I got them.....

I think they breed here.

 

[ShunZu]

I thought it was spelled, "R-O-L-A-I-D-S."

Apologies for any editorial privileges taken on the antacid.

 

[rcmodel]

I've never lost one, but I have found three or four.

A #6 Remington rolling block under a cream separator in my dads new farm in 1950. (Former owner of the farm had died so I kept it.)

A .32 Owls-Head that a local sportsman dropped out of a holster while hunting rattle-snakes in 1958 or so. (Returned to owner)

1911-A1 pistol in the attic of a WWII vintage Army barricks in 1968. (Returned to Army)

A Browning A-5 shotgun someone laid on top of a car and drove off while hunting pheasants in 1973 or so. (Returned to owner)

I did "misplace" my Kel-Tec P3AT once.
I spent about an hour looking for it, and finally found it in my hip pocket behind my billfold!

rcmodel

 

[mudslinging79]

lost a car once in the mall parking lot...

 

[Flintlock Tom]

I left a rifle at my mom's place after a month long visit. Never saw it again even though my brother turned the place up-side-down.
I regularly can't find the tool I need, but know I have. So I go to the hardware store, buy another one and, after using it, I put it in a place where I can find it next time. There in the place is the original tool.
So, go look in the place where you would put it so you can find it next time.

 

[230RN]

ME: "Nah, I couldn't have left it there."

FRIEND: "How do you know where it isn't, if you don't know where it is?"

Hmmmmm.....

 

[Sato Ord]

No, I've never misplaced a firearm. My wife moved mine once and I ended up confronting a half a dozen drug dealers from the crack infested low income housing next door with my bastard sword because my rifle wasn't where I had left it for easy access (I've lived in some rough neighborhoods over the years). That was almost twenty years ago and there are still a few people scattered around Melbourne Florida that remember the incident.

Other than that, I lost a couple of perfectly good pistols and an old Tokarev to the same wife.

Wife number three is much more intelligent and knows enough not to play with my firearms. She leaves them where she and I can get to them in a hurry.

I also don't lose my keys, my wallet, or my glasses. I have little patience for panicked house-wide searches for such items that other people have lost either. Guess I'm getting a bit set in my ways in my old age.

 

[Pigspitter]

I lost my M91/30 once....don't ask how you lose a 5 foot gun, but I found it loaded in my closet and pointed at the general direction of my head.....kinda creepy.

 

[scrat]

lost a firearm. i still have my social security card in my wallet. its been there ever since i got it. Not going to say how many years. lets just say a few decades and i still have the original one. not a replacement. so nope i really dont loose things.

 

[mekender]

But I have found guns in my house that I had no idea that I bought, did not remember buying and was not sure where I got them.....

I think they breed here.

i need a house like that, mine only breeds dust bunnies and full garbage bags... damn kids...

i found a TON of guns once... was working on a house and waaaaay up in the back corner of the attic (far from the rest of the boxes) was something like 15 rifles... i went and told the owner about em, she stated that they were her ex-husbands and that i could have what ever i wanted... ended up with a couple of nice rifles out of that one...

 

[fatguynlittlecoat]

I lost my ass once in cancun, Mexico, but never a gun...no, losing a gun would be foolish.

 

[Geronimo45]

Yes. Slung guns out of the holster while working. Repeatedly enough that I jury-rigged a lanyard for such an event. Never lost 'em for more than three minutes.

 

[Huddog]

Thought I did once. I wear a suit towork 90% of the time. My everyday carry is a S&W 642 in a front pocket holster. I get to work one day go to secure the 642 in it appropriate place as i have to go into another building as part of my job which is secured and no firearms for security reasons. My holster is in my pocket but no 642. Scared the wicked out of me. I had stopped at a local restaurant for breakfast that morning and my first thought ws that it had some how fallen out of my pocket at the restaurant. So I walk briskly back to my car and there it lays between the drivers seat and the console. Boy did I say a quick Thank you prayes. I just have to rememeber that particular suit has short pockets.

 

[Jim Dandy]

A co-worker left one on the toolbox of his pickup once. He was loading umpteen things in the cab and forgot about the gun. (A Ruger P89.) He drove off and didn't think about it again until later that day. He called the Yukon, Oklahoma PD -- where he lived and lost the gun -- and learned that someone found it and called it in. Since it was in one of those areas where Yukon and OKC overlap, neither Yukon's nor OKC's PD would take responsibility for the report. (Tax dollars at WORK!!!) Five years elapsed and the finder persisted (who says people aren't good?) until Yukon ultimately put him in contact with the co-worker. (Note: they still refused to take the report.)

The co-worker got the gun back and except for the plastic Ruger case being beat up, the gun was still in great shape.

 

[lee n. field]

Lost one, as in "where did I put that thing?", no, never. Did find one once, in a place we moved into. Unfortunately it was a POS.

 

[bogie]

Did the OP find it yet?