Ever misplace a firearm

[getsome]

If you have then you know what I've been going through the last couple weeks so I'm going to tell one on myself now....My everyday pocket carry is a J frame smith 642 which works well for me since I have a bum left hand....I can't carry at work so it lives in a lock box in the truck and in my pocket or on the night stand the rest of the time....

Three weeks ago I started to get dressed and realized I had my wallet, keys, knife, phone but no pistol....I figured I had left it in the truck lock box but when I looked in there it was as empty as a bankers heart so I started to panic and tried to retrace my steps from the time I knew I had it to when I didn't....I had gone to Walmart the previous night to look for .223 ammo and I knew I had it then, went to the library and to get gas and not so sure I remember having it then....Got home from work and tore my room apart and no gun, really started to panic now...Searched the truck and yard in case I dropped it and still no gun....

I was heart sick and felt like an idiot because it's not like me to lose a gun....I looked everywhere for 2 days but no luck so I turned in a Police report for a lost/stolen gun....Ten days went by and no call from the Police and still haven't found it so went shopping and traded in my LCP (which I hated from day one) for a brand new no lock 642 just like my missing piece so at least I was back in the CCW business but feeling really bumed that I couldn't remember what happened to the old one....

Yesterday the house phone rang which is rare since we all use cell so I was closest to my wifes home office which I almost never go in and answered the phone and while talking I happend to look on top of her printer and guess what was there, yep my pistol and thats when it dawned on me what happened that night....Her battery back up for the computer was beeping for some reason just as I was empting my pockets for the evening and I went in there to reset the thing because it makes a horrible loud obnoxious sreaking tone and I must of had the pistol in my hand and I just laid it down long enough to turn off the damn racket and forgot it....

Well now I'm the proud owner of twin 642's....The Police were real nice about it and were glad the gun didn't fall into the wrong hands and cancelled the report....I'm feeling relieved that I found the thing but very stupid for misplacing it.....This getting older stuff sucks....:o

[Bawanna]

Well if it helps, send me the new one and we'll both have one. Seems democratic to me.

In my man cave I know where everything is. Seldom do I ever not know where something is but sons old enough that they sometimes go there to clean a gun or something.
I misplaced a Swedish Mauser. I did like you and panicked but found I'd just put it in a different case behind some other stuff. I chalked it up to Dementia, not to be confused with Ahlzeimers which I know is coming.

Glad you found your gun, I can feel the panic just reading about it.

[getsome]

Thanks Bawann, I guess I'll keep it for trade bait because I don't like it near as well as the first one, trigger pull is pretty rough on the new one and the original is slick as goose snot.....They say the definition of Dementia is not remembering which end your teeth go in so I'm not quite there yet but that day is coming.....What was I talking about? Was I finished?....Good night Irene and bring me my green jello damnit....

[Bawanna]

Ok, better to send me the old one then, you know how I hate a gritty trigger.

Oh and my wifes name is Irene! It was YOU!

[downtownv]

That's it, no more private emails for you they rattle your brain!

[getsome]

What brain? Oh and the one today was great!!!.....What was it again, something about President Obumpkin I think????

[Buzzard45]

Glad to hear all`s well. I`ve forgotten where i stashed a few.....more than a few times.;)

[340pd]

I have carried daily for a full twelve years, and before that, off and on a good twenty more.
I almost hate to admit this but............
One day I was shopping at a big box sporting goods store and entered one of the dressing rooms to try on a pair of pants. They did not fit, so I changed back into the ones I was wearing and returned the stores pants to the display. Looked around the store for a good fifteen minutes and suddenly had a sinking feeling in my stomach that came out of nowhere.
I was torn between running to the manager or first checking the now locked dressing room I had been using. I opted for the dressing room.

I had left my PM9 in it's IWB holster laying on a shelf in the dressing room. It was right where I left it, and no one was any the wiser.

OK, here is a better one........

Loooooong time ago, my wife were having a breakfast in a very high end restaurant where we were pretty regular customers. Sitting in a booth, paid the bill, got up and left, only to have our server come running after me into the parking lot. With a cute wink she said, "did you mean to leave something?"

My holstered Seecamp 32 was carefully clutched in her hand.

My wife asked, "what did you leave now?"

"Just my cell phone Honey" (+ a $20 extra tip for Brittany)

That was last time I ever bought a pair of pants with shallow pockets.

I now carry a Matthews ChillX for SD. No problems so far.

[getsome]

Thanks, I'll try not to do that again...I spent a week and a half dreaming that the thing fell out of my pocket in the Kids R Us parking lot or the toy department at Walmart....:ohmy:.....NOT a good feeling

[Bawanna]

Aw man a memory.

I don't know if they are nationwide or not but we have or at least used to have places called Fun Factory. All kinds of stuff for kids to do, food and drink, mazes, tunnels, all sorts of stuff.

The construction company I worked for got a Tenant Improvement contract for one to fix up and change a few things.
Of course it all has to be done at night so they were open during the day.

Well day guys usually go a little nuts when they have to work all night, in fact we were especially nuts cause we were starting a new apartment complex so we'd work all night and then go to the other job with very little sleep but excellent money. Gawd I miss that money.

Anyhow one night during a bout of after dark insanity I found myself bouncing around in the kids big ball pit. Great fun, you should try it.

I crawled out and was ready to go back to work when I thought to take inventory. Fortunately I was running the show so I ordered the whole crew, 3 guys I think that night into the ball pit.

We're looking for a 45 and a pack of Marlboro's. Working I had a special pouch on my tool belt but just stuffed it in my belt if I dropped the bags. Don't do that no more, always a holster. Nobody leaves until we find them.

We found em. Happy ending!

[TheTman]

The easiest way for me to find something I misplaced is to buy a replacement, and the item I lost will usually turn up in a few days. I do know that sick feeling in your stomach you get when you go to get a pistol out and it's not there. Luckily so far they have turned up in another spot.

[knkali]

glad you found it. I know the panic you felt. Isn't fun.

[b4uqzme]

That would have had me going apesh!t...glad you found it! Not a gun but: we went up to the lake one early spring to put the boat in the water. It gets stored there all winter. We took one look at the boat and couldn't help notice that the entire out-drive was missing. After freaking out for awhile and almost calling the police and the insurance company, Mike remembers that he called the marina and asked them to repair the skeg (last fall). They came and got it at some point and obviously weren't done yet.

[b4uqzme]

I just looked on top of Smiley's printer in hopes to get lucky...wouldn't mind a 642 myself. Nope. :rolleyes:

[ltxi]

getsome...It's okay, it happens even to the worst of us. Don't rightly know exactly how many firearms I own. I'd say mebbe five to ten are "misplaced" at any given time. Sometimes I find/happen across something and it feels like Christmas. Rarely misplace anything often carried, tho. If I do I just carry something else until it turns up.

[Armybrat]

20 years ago couldn't find my North American Mini Magnum while shuckin' my drawers for bedtime. That panic feeling got my BP up, but when I found it slipped down in the couch cushions after a frantic search of the house, my heart rate returned to almost normal.

This past Christmas after we got home from a shopping trip, I took off my jacket and discovered the Ruger LCP wasn't in its proper pocket. That terrible sinking feeling set in as I searched everywhere, until the wife pointed it out to me - still in the Desantis Nemesis holster - wedged in between her car's seatbelt lock and the center console where it had slipped out of my jacket pocket while unbuckling. Whew, that was a real discombobulater - thought I had lost it while out at a store somewhere.

Believe I already posted my son's missing gun story - Christmas 2013 I gave him my tiny North American Mini .22lr (not the Magnum) as a novelty gift. A few days later (after trash day) he admitted he could not find it anywhere in his house. Naturally, I searched our place high & low (they had opened it at our house Christmas afternoon) without success. He & we figured it had gotten thrown out in the big bag of wrapping paper trash. I was considerably disappointed as that was a neat little pistol, although near impossible to shoot because of its diminutive size.
Anyway, I got a call from my DIL the week before this past Christmas - she found the little shooter in her unused Christmas wrapping paper box. It was still in the little bitty gun rug. Needless to say, son didn't get a new gun gift from me that month. I have been giving him guns for Christmas for several years, so maybe it was time for a little wakeup lesson.

[yqtszhj]

So your wife didn't know it was on her printer? If her office is like my wifes hobby room nothing can be found in there.

I left my cm9 in my truck console for a couple of weeks one time not realizing it. The day i left it there i had 2 carry guns and placed it there. I had been carrying my j frame afterwards so i didnt realize it was gone till 2 weeks later when i went looking for it. It had me in a panic. I had just bought the cm45 and wasnt used to seeing 4 kahrs on the shelf so when there was only 3 on the shelf at the time all seemed well.

[AJBert]

Can't say I've ever misplaced a firearm but I have "forgotten" them a couple of times. When we go hunting I normally bring my primary hunting rifle, a back up for the primary, a brush gun, a camp pistol and a carry pistol. When the hunt is over I have been known to leave one of them in the trailer and only realize I left one of them in the camping trailer when I go to put the others away.

On another note, I have seen what happens to someone in the military when the lose their weapon. Keep in mind, most in the military don't carry a weapon every day unless in a combat zone or if they are military LEO types (Master at Arms in the Navy for you land lubbers). Not a pretty picture and I felt a bit bad for the person, even though I was the one chewing them out on occasion.

[ltxi]

^ Misplaced is one thing...lost is a whole 'nother. I've never lost a gun. That be a bad thing I would never treat as "not really concerned about".

[WMD]

I recently went nuts looking for my NAA mini 22LR revolver. As it turned out, it was in my safe where it belongs. I forgot I put it away. I think age is beginning to show. What a sick feeling you get when you think you may have misplaced a gun.

[Bawanna]

Well as I live and breath. WMD! I'd given up hope of ever seeing another post from you my friend.

Glad you stopped by. You made my day. Hope is well in your world.

[WMD]

Things are good! Still on the right side of the grass! ;-) Hope all is well on your end.

[Pancho_Villa]

Well, I came home one Sunday after a weekend trip. I opened the safe and was putting some of my weekend trip guns into it. I had just bought a Ruger LCR a week before and had made room for it in my stuffed safe. I reached for it and it was not there?

I remember thinking that maybe I took it instead of another gun. But no. There was nothing in my bags or car. Maybe I left it at my buddies house. Called hiim, but no. I could remember messing with it right before we left on Friday. I thought , I probably put it in another case or bag when I left with another gun and used the bag it was in to carry another gun with me. I would go through all my gun bags and boxes later and surely find it. But, I was having the sick feeling of not knowing where it was for sure. tried to put it out of my mind and do my Monday clean up chores.

On Mondays, I usually gather the trash. I had already picked up a few of the smaller trash bags in the bedroom and I went to the one by my puter desk. It is near the safe. When I picked up the bag to carry it with the other, it felt awful heavy compared to the others, so I looked inside. There was the LCR in a zipper bag. It must have fallen off the desk when I was moving guns in and out of hte safe.

[b4uqzme]

^^^^ It was in the trash??? There's a good reason to carry a heavy firearm. Just sayin'.

[ltxi]

The best way to lose a gun.....forget after a road trip that back-up .380 is still in your briefcase or side pocket of carry-on luggage when showing up at the airport on your next business trip.

[Bawanna]

I have to probably fly for the first time in 30 years in late April. I might just go nekkid. Prior to leaving the house I plan to strip the chair of anything that is unnecessary for the chair to roll. They'll probably still find something I'm not suppose to have.

A full tube of toothpaste or shampoo, they'll find something!

I might have to rethink driving some more, I wouldn't have to travel like a sheep.

[ltxi]

I have to probably fly for the first time in 30 years in late April. I might just go nekkid. Prior to leaving the house I plan to strip the chair of anything that is unnecessary for the chair to roll. They'll probably still find something I'm not suppose to have.

A full tube of toothpaste or shampoo, they'll find something!

I might have to rethink driving some more, I wouldn't have to travel like a sheep.

Nothing sharp longer than a toothpick and any liquids all three ounces or less and can fit in a one quart zip lock and no worries, Col.

I was a full on road warrior from late '72 up through May of last year. Ain't been on a commercial flight since and don't plan on any anytime soon. As a, now past, pro with life "elite" privileges on a couple of airlines and access to known traveler security screening I don't get that sheep feeling/treatment but I still want no part of commercial air travel if at all avoidable. Biggest benefactor of my ugly past is my wife. As my spouse she gets to ride on my credentials...preferred treatment, no cost upgrades, and often free flights.

[rickbsgu]

It's something I'm very conscious of, but handling it every day - taking it in and out of the car - makes it more likely you'll set it down somewhere in between, leave it and not realize it.

I've panicked a couple of times when I couldn't lay my hands on it, immediately - I don't leave the house unless I can. Left one in a hotel room once (sweaty run back to the hotel room to retrieve it after the key had expired.)

Haven't outright lost any from misplacement - had one stolen, along with a vehicle. Felt terrible when that happened, but they stole the whole vehicle & it was in there. Couldn't remove it because I was at work & the van was all packed up for a trip. One of those situations where it would have been better had it been legal where I was (California) to remove the gun and keep it with me.

[xsailer]

A couple of years ago I was in the 'get on the plane line' and remembered I had my nice pocket knife in my front pocket. OH NO...... I got out of line and went looking for someplace I could hide it until I got back a week later. In the men's room the return air heater vent on the wall base board was loose. The register was not screwed in so I took it off and reached in with my knife and put it on the wall base plate as far in as could reach. Made the trip and picked the knife up with no problem and went home.

[berettabone]

Sorry, never have misplaced one, EVER.................................shouldn't happen. Could be some kind of warning........................................... ........................................:confused:

[rickbsgu]

A couple of years ago I was in the 'get on the plane line' and remembered I had my nice pocket knife in my front pocket. OH NO...... I got out of line and went looking for someplace I could hide it until I got back a week later. In the men's room the return air heater vent on the wall base board was loose. The register was not screwed in so I took it off and reached in with my knife and put it on the wall base plate as far in as could reach. Made the trip and picked the knife up with no problem and went home.

I carry a very nice french pocket knife - have lost several of them to TSA over the years because I forget it's in my pocket.

Last time was helpful, though - there's a service @IAH where you can drop it in an envelope and mail it to yourself. Took like three weeks, but I didn't lose it.

Getting better at making sure I either leave it at home or check it before getting in the line...

[guitar]

Sent my back pack through the xray at they airport, wondered why it was taking so long. They asked who it belonged to I raised my hand and said it was mine. I had left a full mag for my PM9 in it. No weapon. The police came asked me a couple of questions, let me take it to the car and come back and go through security. I just goofed up. I was surprised they didn't just keep the magazine but glad they didn't.

[gunmut]

I had a box 9mm in my carry-on that I had forgot about, uncle Sam sent me fine letter for $250. From that point on I have one set of bags I use for air travel and only for air travel.