Missing gun What should I do?

[Dogguy]

I once found a Ruger .22 auto in the saddlebag of a motorcycle I was selling. I had forgotten I owned the gun. I knew there was a bunch of crap in those bags but I had completely forgotten about the Ruger.

 

[m657]

re: "the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings"

.....I didn't realize you were so close with my ~ex.....

Good job though....got yer stuff back & can blame someone else for the problem in the first place. I love it when things work out that way. Or better, a "two-fer"....daughter AND the one/etc...

 

[feralmerril]

Iam legend, I suppose you SHOULD be able to but it back from the insurance company for what they gave you for it. I once had a colt new frontier bought new by audie murphy stolen. I probley got about $250s from the insurance at the time, 25 years ago. I can prove audie bought it new. Now the insurance wouldnt pay me for the factor that it belonged to murphy, but just the going rate for a generic one. Yet were that gun to turn up I imagine it would go for at leaqst $25,000 or maybe much more! If the insurance company tried to pull that, I think you would read about me in the newspaper!

 

[millbilly]

Of all the things I've lost........I miss my mind the most.......

 

[JSR III]

Glad you found it. My first thought after reading this was that maybe you had loaned it out to a friend and forgot about it. I can not tell you how many tools that I have loaned and then weeks or months later I can't remember who borrowed them. I am starting to think that maybe it's time to start writing it down so I don't have to rely on my memory.

I can remember my drivers license number from 1968, but can't remember what I had for breakfast 3 days ago.

I also have one of those "the one that lives with me just to make my life miserable and exhaust my financial holdings"
who loves to put my "stuff" away in drawers. Being a contractor, it's always wonderful to have to search every drawer in the house to find that Home Depot receipt I need to bill out a job.

 

[BarbC]

The question is, If you had reported it stolen, collected the insurance money and then sometime later it turned up, what would you do?

Is it then the property of the insurance company?

My dad thought he lost a gun in a move and finally reported it to the insurance company. Almost a year later, he found the gun and again called the insurance company to let them know and then returned the money. The insurance company said they never had that happen before!

 

[DrewW]

When I was younger my uncle got a divorce and moved into a smaller house with almost no storage space so we let him use our attic to store some stuff in. Years later after he had built a house and retrieved all his stuff he was missing 3 long guns and swore he had given them to dad for safe keeping. That went on for years until we were reorganizing the attic several years later and found all three guns rolled up in an old yoga mat. Apparently my uncle decided he wanted the guns protected from scratches and rolled them up in that mat, the attic had been check several times by both my uncle and dad but neither of them ever touched the yoga mat setting less than a foot from where all my uncle's stuff had been stored.