I got out of my car one day and went into the house and realized I didn't have my gun. Went back in the car and couldn't find it. Instant panic (it was my issued weapon, I was off duty=massive paperwork). I searched all over for it, then sat down and said "It HAS to be in the car." Searched again, somehow it had squeezed between the seat and door just out of sight. That was a huge weight lifted, let me tell you.
Rough start to the morning.
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Bonesinium
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Lots of people who never have, and are apparently incapable of making mistakes.
Ignition Override
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I've never owned a handgun, but breaking a routine is easy to imagine. That's why many jobs have various checklists required on the job, even after twenty five years, or thirty.
Nobody reads a checklist at home, or can they remember which one, in a fluid situation?
Years ago when my son was very young, the idea of having a handgun seemed to be a bad idea. I only touched the old. 22 rifle (or any gun) just once, over a span of twenty years, and it was in the attic.
Somehow we all survived, with no available gun.
My son has always been the most important thing in the world to me, by far.
A handgun easily could have been a huge risk to him (little boys can find weapons plus ammo, and notice/perceive what we don't realize), compared with the microscopic risk that anybody would consider breaking in while we were at home.
The only break-in we had (house had a church soccer field behind it) was when we were gone for one hour, about 0700 PM in early December. That is high season, with so many activities, especially after people drive to work/school.
You can't replace your kids.
Nobody reads a checklist at home, or can they remember which one, in a fluid situation?
Years ago when my son was very young, the idea of having a handgun seemed to be a bad idea. I only touched the old. 22 rifle (or any gun) just once, over a span of twenty years, and it was in the attic.
Somehow we all survived, with no available gun.
My son has always been the most important thing in the world to me, by far.
A handgun easily could have been a huge risk to him (little boys can find weapons plus ammo, and notice/perceive what we don't realize), compared with the microscopic risk that anybody would consider breaking in while we were at home.
The only break-in we had (house had a church soccer field behind it) was when we were gone for one hour, about 0700 PM in early December. That is high season, with so many activities, especially after people drive to work/school.
You can't replace your kids.
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Owen Sparks
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My parents bought a house a couple of years back and I found two .22 rifles that were hidden in the attic by the former owner. Being that they were starting to rust from neglect we decided that if the former home owner wanted them back he would have to call and ask. He never did.
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I don't understand how you could not check on your gun safe for 2 weeks? If you are a true gun enthusiast, no matter how many gun safes you have or how many guns you have, there shouldn't be an excuse to not check on your guns regularly...I'm sorry for the lack of compassion, but leaving a safe unattended for 2 weeks is irresponsible. Given a lucid and clear state of mind and health, I would NEVER do something like that.
Thank goodness your guns weren't actually stolen and are accounted for. Stay frosty. Seriously.
Thank goodness your guns weren't actually stolen and are accounted for. Stay frosty. Seriously.
I've never lost a gun. In here it's illegal to keep them lying around, so they always sit in the safe. When leaving the range, I double-check that I'm taking home everything I brought. Ammo should also be stored behind lock and key, but I confess forgetting now and then an odd pack of .22s in the range bag. My most serious 'oopses' were the two occasions when, after messing with the guns at night, I had left the safe open overnight and the next day when there was nobody in the house. To come home and find that out gave a sickening feeling indeed.
You say that in jest...but these kind of mistakes can cost lives. It's not like misplacing (insert random item here).Lots of people who never have, and are apparently incapable of making mistakes.
clamman
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I'v never lost a gun, but once when I was on a motorcycle trip I thought I did. I looked in the saddlebag and didn't see the 45 in its cordura case. I called the motel I stayed in, no gun. Tore into the saddlebags again and viola! A black case in the bottom of a black saddlebag at six in the morning.
Ala Dan
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I know of a former U.S. Marshal who left his sidearm in the men's room of a
gas station~! After he finsihed his "paperwork", he redressed; but forgot to
retrieve his firearm. Luckily, the stations attendant found his weapon and
returned it to the Marshal~!
gas station~! After he finsihed his "paperwork", he redressed; but forgot to
retrieve his firearm. Luckily, the stations attendant found his weapon and
returned it to the Marshal~!
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My great biggest most embarrasiing and potentially dangerous "loss" I did to myself.....
I took the wife and kiddos on a trip to Dallas. Six Flags, water parks and such. We get to the hotel and are unloading the car to get into the room. I'm parked out in a lot and not in the drive through at the front door.
My hands are full, so I layed my cased pistol on the roof of the car with a few other items to do whatever, and then gather them back up and go inside.
1/2 hour later we are back out to the car to go to dinner. Yep. Right there on top of the car is my 38 Special. All loaded up and available to anybody that walked by.
Needless to say, I was shocked I would do such a thing and blessed that nothing bad happened.
I took the wife and kiddos on a trip to Dallas. Six Flags, water parks and such. We get to the hotel and are unloading the car to get into the room. I'm parked out in a lot and not in the drive through at the front door.
My hands are full, so I layed my cased pistol on the roof of the car with a few other items to do whatever, and then gather them back up and go inside.
1/2 hour later we are back out to the car to go to dinner. Yep. Right there on top of the car is my 38 Special. All loaded up and available to anybody that walked by.
Needless to say, I was shocked I would do such a thing and blessed that nothing bad happened.
Sort of along these lines, my story shows that you've been carrying concealed way too long.
I arrived home one afternoon from running errands, visiting friends and so on. As I reached for my AMT .45 Backup, it wasn't there. Total panic. I searched the car, house, and even called a few folks.
Convinced I'd lost the handgun, I too was getting ready to make the call to the cops. Then, I looked in my safe, and lo and behold, there it sat, on the shelf where I'd left it.
I'd walked around all day with an empty holster. I'd become so accustom to the weight, I didn't realize it wasn't there.
I arrived home one afternoon from running errands, visiting friends and so on. As I reached for my AMT .45 Backup, it wasn't there. Total panic. I searched the car, house, and even called a few folks.
Convinced I'd lost the handgun, I too was getting ready to make the call to the cops. Then, I looked in my safe, and lo and behold, there it sat, on the shelf where I'd left it.
I'd walked around all day with an empty holster. I'd become so accustom to the weight, I didn't realize it wasn't there.
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Quoheleth,
As a pastor, you should know the score. Penance is the appropriate punishment. I think you should fire 2 boxes throught this firearm WITH YOUR OFF HAND to atone for this infraction, and from this point forward, remember there are only 2 places for guns. In the safe or in your hand.
Quoheleth,
As a pastor, you should know the score. Penance is the appropriate punishment. I think you should fire 2 boxes throught this firearm WITH YOUR OFF HAND to atone for this infraction, and from this point forward, remember there are only 2 places for guns. In the safe or in your hand.
Gun Geezer
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Combine penance with training and fun. Sound wisdom, this.Quoheleth,
As a pastor, you should know the score. Penance is the appropriate punishment. I think you should fire 2 boxes throught this firearm WITH YOUR OFF HAND to atone for this infraction, and from this point forward, remember there are only 2 places for guns. In the safe or in your hand.
I responded in similar fashion: Went and bought a pistol I was less likely to leave on top of the car!
FROGO207
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Well I can sympathize with the misplacing of a firearm or two. I have done that a time or two or three in the past. I was sure they weren't stolen or the cash on the table in the room they were supposed to be in would most likely have been stolen also. But where did I put them??? I hid them so well I could not find them myself for a while.:banghead: I have plenty of others, same thing in fact, but when one goes missing I want to find it. Hidden firearms around the house do me no good if I do not remember where they are hidden so I now have a couple standard places to go to when I need a firearm when the safe is locked. Easier to remember for sure.
Now what was I saying?.............Oh yea.
Now what was I saying?.............Oh yea.
hermannr
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Just as my wife and I hve both "lost" our glasses on our face, I have "lost" my carry on my hip a couple times...then I got in the car and it was in the way of hooking up the seat belt.
As to the posters concerned about your young children...the best way to take care of that is to "demystify" the firearms. I never locked up my guns, even with 5 daughters...just took them all out shooting as soon as they were physically old enough to hold a "boys" .22 rifle.
40 years later, One of them shoots competitively, as does her daughter. One hunts, all understand firearm safety, and none are anti. Just starting to get another granddaughter into competitive shooting myself. (her dad is an anti so her mom won't push it.)
As to the posters concerned about your young children...the best way to take care of that is to "demystify" the firearms. I never locked up my guns, even with 5 daughters...just took them all out shooting as soon as they were physically old enough to hold a "boys" .22 rifle.
40 years later, One of them shoots competitively, as does her daughter. One hunts, all understand firearm safety, and none are anti. Just starting to get another granddaughter into competitive shooting myself. (her dad is an anti so her mom won't push it.)
Tadracket
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Lots of people who never have, and are apparently incapable of making mistakes.
When it comes to guns, there is no such thing as a mistake.
I once thought I lost all the magazines for my AR-15. After looking everywhere, I finally started emptying out the gun safe and remembered I had rearranged it after the last trip to the range, putting the mags all the way in the back of a lower shelf.
Now that I think of it, one time at the range I was getting ready to leave and couldn't find one of the many rifles I had brought, until I looked in the trunk and there it was - apparently I either hadn't shot it, or forgot I put it away in the trunk after I was done shooting.
Now that I think of it, one time at the range I was getting ready to leave and couldn't find one of the many rifles I had brought, until I looked in the trunk and there it was - apparently I either hadn't shot it, or forgot I put it away in the trunk after I was done shooting.
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