Ever wonder what might happen to your gun when it's evidence?

[The Law]

The price of a firearm that is used in a SD shooting will pale in comparison to your legal bills.

Seriously, if you can't afford to get another one, then you probably shouldn't be carrying it. That $500 or whatever will be a drop in the bucket when you have a criminal defense lawyer. You have to pay them up front, no contingency fees folks.

Carry something reliable and accurate. Don't get fixated on the price.

 

[Cpl Nobbs]

we had a case here several years ago when a former sheriff was unelected (he was so unpopular his own party wouldn't run him for sheriff again)

when the new sheriff came in it was found that 3 Sub Machine Guns and 2 police cars could not be accounted for. they had last been signed out to the former sheriff. nothing came of that case either IIRC.

 

[Lashlarue]

I had a stolen 357 used in a murder, homicide detective said I would not get it back.I didn't! But they tracked me down from Texas to Nevada and sent local LE to contact me.Luckily I had the burglary case # on file though it was ten years old at the time.

 

[thexrayboy]

“My guns were just flat out stolen by Buncombe County,” said Moore, who retired in 2003 as supervisor of court security for the U.S. Marshals Service at the federal courthouse in Asheville. “I think it’s a sad, sorry day when you can’t trust law enforcement.”

Now if that isn't the most ironic statement. A retired LEO bemoaning the fact that "you can't trust law enforcement". I'd laugh if the problem wasn't such a serious one.

 

[Socrates]

About 1995, right before I left Hawaii, a police officer was convicted of stealing cocaine out of the evidence room, and selling it.

The question was, where to put him, since he'd be dead in the regular prison.
It's Hawaii, so they suspended the sentence...:banghead:

Did loose his pension...
Dr. S

 

[MrPeter]

...he contacted the sheriff to get them back, they told him to hire a lawyer....
...EACH ONE HAD AN OFFICERS INITIALS SCRATCHED INTO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the sheriff didn't think that he would actually get a lawyer, gave out the guns, and your friend called his bluff. That is just.. I mean.. I don't even know what to say to that! I've never heard of someone claiming to protect the law literally stealing property from a citizen's house!
I am shocked.

 

[Ryder]

I screwed around with the cops for one week before getting a judge to order them to return my "confiscated" shotgun. Got it back that same afternoon

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

After about a year and a hefty lawyer tab he got his guns back... BUT EACH ONE HAD AN OFFICERS INITIALS SCRATCHED INTO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apparently after a certain amount of time these officers would get their pick of the firearms in evidence.

That's just sickening
Is there any legal action that could be taken at that point since it sounds like this guy didn't do anything wrong (assuming he wasn't intentionally harboring a fugitive)? "This crime has got your name written all over it", literally.
If you used a firearm in defensve of yourself at home, is it SOP for the police to confiscate all your guns?

 

[sean m]

I had a revolver stolen from my vehicle and it took a year and a half to get it back from the local PD since it had been used. When it was recovered a lady from the department contacted me and asked would I prefer ro have it destroyed or returned. I asked for it to be returned and later traded it for something else that had caught my fancy. My feelings are that they are tools and can be replaced. Luckly, the department had only marked the cylinder with a magic marker to indicate the fired chamer and the case number on it.

 

[Mk VII]

It's called 'preserving the chain of evidence', and the condition of your property at the end of it is last on their minds.

 

[Rickstir]

Had a friend take 3 years to get a revolver back that his ex-wife used to kill herself. The prosicutor said he would never get it back, but a nasty letter from a lawyer was all it took.