Other Members Stolen Guns

[coastie]

So HPD sent me a letter. Another of my stolen rifles was recovered.
New method of recovery is to show at court at the appointed time.
Night court and I meet two Gaveston Harbor PO's.
One had bought the Universal .30 carbine "from an old boy in a powered chair".
When he cleaned it and ran the serial #, he was agast and turned it in.
When the court approved, I picked it up from the HPD warehouse and gave it to the Calveston PO.
I think it was 16 years since that rifle was in my possesion.
One guy at this court got his Colt 1911 stolen from his truck when he was working summers during college, and he now was approaching retirement with the Texas State ATB.
Another fellowed recovered his deceased Father's pistol, stolen 40 years previously.
Keep the Serial numbers and make that report!
Paul in Houston.

[DRB]

I worked with a guy who had a WInchester model 70 stolen in 1968. About 1990 it was recovered. He knew who stole it it was neighbor kid. Well the gun was in CO guy brought it in to a gunsmith for a new scope and he ran the numbers. After he got the rifle back he sold it back to the guy in CO who had had it for over 20 years never suspecting it was stolen. Oh it had a nicer scope on it then when it was stolen.

[coastie]

The Universal .30 carbine bought by the Galveston PO who did the right thing?
I gave him the rifle. We wrote several papers to cover the transfer.
Six months later he sent a check for what he had paid the "guy in a power chair".
I called and his son told me to cash the check, his Dad retired for medical reasons.
Paul

[Gyrene]

I searched out the Gunbroker ads for Johnson rifles, and they had a parts kit and a Johnson rifle. Neither were mine though.

I have tried to log on to Gunbroker, but it seems to not like me. I tried resetting the password, and it locked me out for too many tries on the first try. I tried to register as a new user and it would not allow it. My guess is that I am not wanted on Gunbroker. Cest la vie, they can do fine without my participation.

[trimmer99]

I had a cheap Brazilian made 20 ga. that I bought for my wife to see if she would be interested in hunting with me. (wasn't interested but still hit 2 of 3 birds her first and only time out). I customized the stock to better fit her. Stored the gun in a pole barn on some property I owned. Got a call that someone had broken in and stolen it along with several tools. A few months later a neighbor said that he thought he knew who the thief was. It seems some local yayhoo got the bright idea to shoot up a drug house in town in a drive by. The stupid SOB didn't realize that it was under surveillance. I called and described the gun and it's customized stock to the sheriff who said "I think we have it." I had already had been reimbursed by my ins. co so after a visual ID told them to keep it. They used the theft from my pole barn as a lever in getting him to agree to a guilty plea. At least I got some satisfaction that the thief had to pay with jail time. RB