Mountainman2
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How would you go about saving your guns if you are in a bad wreck. I know almost tow truck drivers are honest but just to make sure what you do if you were hurt bad and had to go to a hospital?
How would you go about saving your guns if you are in a bad wreck. I know almost tow truck drivers are honest but just to make sure what you do if you were hurt bad and had to go to a hospital?
A couple of years ago Canceled Cary magazine had a article on what to do if you are in an accident while armed and have to be hospitalized. From what I remember it stated to give your firearm to a police officer and ask for a receipt in front of witnesses and do your best to remember names of officers and EMS and tow truck attendants. try to record as much as you can with your phone or have someone else do it with your phone.How would you go about saving your guns if you are in a bad wreck. I know almost tow truck drivers are honest but just to make sure what you do if you were hurt bad and had to go to a hospital?
Several years ago I took my motorcycle out on a beautiful NE Ohio day. We seldom see 70+ on Oct 9th. I went down, bike went down on top of me. Crushed ankle and 5 busted up ribs. I was carrying my .45 ACP. I told the first police officers on the scene and they were more concerned with me and getting the bike off of me. They told the EMT squad I had a gun on my hip. The squad carefully removed my gun which went to the ER with me. Same as mentioned above, hospital ER had their hospital police get my gun. A few days later my son came up and they happily handed him my gun at my request as he left the facility. Never a problem one. The police and hospital staff were great. and the gun was never an issue. Thinking back I was never even asked to show my license. This was prior to Ohio going with constitutional carry.How would you go about saving your guns if you are in a bad wreck. I know almost tow truck drivers are honest but just to make sure what you do if you were hurt bad and had to go to a hospital?
I was in an accident this past fall (rear-ended on a 8 lane highway) that necessitated an ambulance ride and ER visit in a high-crime Denver suburb. I gave my primary carry, reload, and BUG to the Colorado State Patrol Trooper at the scene. He unloaded them and placed everything in a gallon ziplock. I secured the bag from the ER security desk when my family picked me up that evening. It was really a non-event with regards to my weapons. How it would have gone with a "war wagon" roll-out (carbine or braced pistol, large quantity of 20+ round mags), like some folks advocate, is anybody's guess.
He crammed a Thompson in the boot of an MG????A friend and his wife were killed when a truck ran a stop sign and broadsided their MG.
He was in the habit of keeping an "urban arsenal" in the boot, which popped open and scattered guns all over the roadside.
Were they all recovered and returned to the family? No way of knowing for sure. His Thompson was returned to the Sheriff's Department.
Ahhhhh...short barreled FA, that makes more sense. I was trying to imagine any way to angle a full-stocked 16" civilian Tommygun through that tiny rear hatch.I don't know just how many guns were in there, but it would have been several. I understand that his Python came out bent.
The Thompson has an interesting story. He saw an ad for them for LE sales. So he schmoozed the Sheriff into buying one on a county PO but his money and then issuing it exclusively to him. Of course it had to go to the county when he was killed. I think the next Sheriff traded it in on something more modern.
How would you go about saving your guns if you are in a bad wreck. I know almost tow truck drivers are honest but just to make sure what you do if you were hurt bad and had to go to a hospital?
That's what I'd do, and seeing as how my wife carries too, I'd go get the guns if she was the one in the wreck. However, if we were both in the wreck, and both of us had to go to the hospital, I can only hope that one of us would be able to call someone we trust to come and get our guns.I would call my wife. Have her come and get the guns.