Guns lost in a divorce?

[harmonic]

I would sue her

Did you actually read the thread? His subsequent post reveals the guns had no real value and the OP would thus spend way more in legal fees than he could ever hope to recover. Plus she lives on a different continent. (She was an alien to begin with?)

It's a done deal.

 

[MT GUNNY]

Hence the word (I) !!!!!!!

 

[jaholder1971]

Ummm, so you packed up and left her, leaving your prized firearms behind? Something smells methinks.

 

[Cover Dog]

Little white lies

Hope that never happens to me. I wouldn't want my wife selling my guns "for what I told her I paid for them" !!!

 

[X-Rap]

In my state there is a time set in which nothing can be removed from the residence until the divorce is settled. About 2 days before I got my safe out just in case. She was mad as hell but as someone else said, better to fight it out later. She didn't know all the contents and she got all the furniture and her collections of figurines and knick knacks.

 

[Rustynuts]

I think my CCW instructor actually told us here in FL to be careful. Been awhile so I can't remember exactly. It went something like sell all your guns to a trusted friend before it all goes down. Many divorces go down with restraining orders.

He also said NEVER tell even your wife what you carry or how. Or change it up if a divorce is in the works. He said many spiteful wives have claimed the hubby pulled his XYZ gun out of a holster in ABC position and threatened her. Then simply show the LEO you don't even own XYZ gun or ABC style holster and they'll know she's full of it.

On a side note, confiscate her jewelry box while you're at it! Fight fire with fire!

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I wouldn't want my wife selling my guns "for what I told her I paid for them" !!!

Serves you right, you lying bastage!! J/K. The better approach is to never ever ever ever get married or shack up - in my opinion. All it takes is a bare allegation of violence, and your guns are GONE for 3 years (or more) under Lautenberg. In my experience, most members of the fairer gender have a screw loose (at least one) and cannot ever be fully trusted. Sorry, but that's just my opinion. The same can likely be said for most men as well. So I'm an equal-opportunity observer.

 

[offthepaper]

Little white lies

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Hope that never happens to me. I wouldn't want my wife selling my guns "for what I told her I paid for them" !!!

Now that's funny. Very true, but funny.

 

[RPCVYemen]

I don't know the High Road way to say, "You all are just nuts!"

Guns are just things. Inanimate chunks of metal.

Here is a different strategy that doesn't involve lying or hiding stuff from anyone. And you don't have to lose your guns.

1. Choose well. Neither of you has to be perfect - most people are capable of being in a reasonably happy marriage. For me, choosing well meant not getting married until my late 30s. In my 20s, I ran around with women as crazy and unstable as I was. Choose someone who's reasonably sane and don't marry them until you know they are reasonably sane. If all the women you know are crazy - that's probably telling you something.
2. Make a commitment.
3. Tape this on the inside of your forehead - where you see it every morning: "Grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted, to understand than to be understood, to love than to be loved."
4. Remember #3 whenever you are upset that she doesn't understand you.
5. Spend more time with her - listening to her - than you do with your guns or your range buddies.

That way you get to keep the guns and the car and the boat and the house - which are all just things.

Mike

 

[bannockburn]

RPCVYemen

Nice sentiments but not always applicable. All the listening, understanding, and commitments don't mean a thing when your spouse has been cheating on you. In the end, it's still better to have some things, like your guns, your car, or whatever else you've managed to hold onto; than 25+ years wasted on an illusory relationship. After all has been said and done, I'd rather have the inanimate objects.

 

[JWarren]

Nice sentiments but not always applicable.

Very true. I won't get into the specifics of how I learned, but there are situations where there simply is no acceptable alternative.


I am reminded of a quote I have in one of my journals.... I wish I could remember where I got it:

... And God who makes beginnings, makes the end-- A broken place for things too broke to mend.

-- John

 

[lloydkristmas]

Whats to stop someone who has an imminent divorce from selling all of his guns to his best friend for, say, 25 bucks...for safekeeping until things blow over?