On the other hand.......
My father got divorced a few years back and the police "temporarily" took all his guns. (A top grade Browning Olympic handgun in its case,A never fired M-44,top grade William Parkhurst shotgun(Great Grandpa's),Browning Model 10 shotgun, to name a few)
I learned of this months later and went with my Dad to claim them.......
I have never seen such disregard for other peoples property.
The stocks were all dented and the Remington's was actually broken and missing the pieces! The double barrel survived the police brutality as did the M44 for the most part but the Olympics case was damaged.(Not the condition I remember Dad keeping his guns in!)
Do they just toss em in a corner somewhere behind locked doors or what?!
Yes. Yes they do. We've all seen the news footage of cops carrying rifles and shotguns in bundles by the barrels and dropping them in the trunk of a car. But sometimes they play with 'em first.
Years ago, under the old system, we bought two C&B revolvers - Piettas both, an 1860 Army and an 1861 Navy. Under the old rules, one purchased the pistols, drove to the cop shop, told the officer what you'd bought, were issued a Permit to Transport listing the gun shop, the police station, and the times during which you could trasport the listed Restricteds from one to the other, made your appointed pick up and drop off, then waited for the green slip to come in the mail some 6 to 8 weeks later while the cops held your restricteds. Makes the current way of doing things a bit more appealing, no? We did the dance, went home, and twiddled our thumbs waiting for the paperwork.
The green slip came in the mail for both pistols some six weeks later. When we picked up our
brand new revolvers, the nippples were all mashed flat, the cylinders were so far out of time that the locking knotches were ruined, and everyone down at the detachment was making "we got 'em like that" faces.
Dad raised hell with the local senior cop and the RCMP ended up buying us new revolvers. Never did find out who was playing Matt Dillon with our pistols, but from then on, every time we've had call to leave guns with cops, they get 'em in a locked case sans key.
More recently, the very same detachment gave the Blue Flame Treatment to a mint Navy Luger, brought in by a widow lady who had no idea what she had. I have no qualms about calling behaviour like this immoral, and I'm ashamed that police officers condone and enable this form of theft.
nothing unusual about that, there were a few US Army halftracks that were smuggled back. If you know how the system works then you can use the system
