clutch
Contributing Member
I've been in a panic for the last two days. Yesterday I realized I didn't know where my suppressor was. I took it out May 8 to a public range and used it on my rifle, then I brought the rifle in it's case and my range bag home. The rifle went into the house, the range bag stayed in the garage.
Yesterday I looked in the range bag, no suppressor. I checked the rifle case, no suppressor. I searched the house, detached garage, car, pistol case for the pistol that is threaded, and the gun safe. I can't find it.
Last night I go back to the range to look around, call the DNR office that manages the range. This morning I call the Sheriffs office that has jurisdiction. No one has seen it.
Tonight I called the ATF using the number guntrust lawyer has on his site. They said they only deal with licensed dealers, asked for a nfa office and got a number in West Virginia, 20 minutes on hold and I got a person that was going to take my info. My mechanical pencil picked that moment to run out of lead so I rummaged in the drawer of my desk for a writing implement that I've previously looked for the suppressor in and glory be, there was my Dead Air Mask. Definitely a OMG moment.
Evidently I had a massive brain fart. My rifle was shooting >3 minutes high with the suppressor on and I must have brought it inside to inspect it. I don't remember it though.
While trying to figure things out I used my google timeline to see when I was at the range and when I made it home. Then I watched my security camera footage to see if I came though the door with suppressor in hand. I suspect it was in my pocket, after I took it out of the range bag in the garage.
I probably should have called the Michigan State Police first in retrospect.
As far as non FFL NFA owners, who do you contact at ATF?
Thanks for reading, hope it never happens to you,
Clutch
Yesterday I looked in the range bag, no suppressor. I checked the rifle case, no suppressor. I searched the house, detached garage, car, pistol case for the pistol that is threaded, and the gun safe. I can't find it.
Last night I go back to the range to look around, call the DNR office that manages the range. This morning I call the Sheriffs office that has jurisdiction. No one has seen it.
Tonight I called the ATF using the number guntrust lawyer has on his site. They said they only deal with licensed dealers, asked for a nfa office and got a number in West Virginia, 20 minutes on hold and I got a person that was going to take my info. My mechanical pencil picked that moment to run out of lead so I rummaged in the drawer of my desk for a writing implement that I've previously looked for the suppressor in and glory be, there was my Dead Air Mask. Definitely a OMG moment.
Evidently I had a massive brain fart. My rifle was shooting >3 minutes high with the suppressor on and I must have brought it inside to inspect it. I don't remember it though.
While trying to figure things out I used my google timeline to see when I was at the range and when I made it home. Then I watched my security camera footage to see if I came though the door with suppressor in hand. I suspect it was in my pocket, after I took it out of the range bag in the garage.
I probably should have called the Michigan State Police first in retrospect.
As far as non FFL NFA owners, who do you contact at ATF?
Thanks for reading, hope it never happens to you,
Clutch