How Many Guns Have You Lost by Accident or had stolen ?

[GregLaROCHE]

How many guns have you lost by accident or had stolen ? I can remember ten, if I include the one my ex wouldn’t turn over after our divorce. Maybe she had already sold it like a lot of my other stuff. Two lost in rivers and the rest were just plain stolen.

[imashooter2]

None. May the streak continue!

[Thundarstick]

One! I won't bore you with the story, but make sure and report them as lost or stolen so if they are used in a crime you can avoid questioning!

[Shawlerbrook]

None, thank God !

[redneck1]

Now this is embarrassing and I hesitate to tell anyone , but late one night about a month ago I was robbed by a 7ft tall blue duck wearing a rainbow wig and a Hitler mustache ..... it stole every fire arm I owned .
It's beady little eyes and terrifying quack of doom still haunt me .

I've been to scared of a repeat visit to even think about ever owning a fire arm ever again

[JSnover]

Just one. A Remington 341P many years ago, stolen by one of my daughters' friends while I was out of town. I didn't have any proof and the police couldn't do much without evidence or witnesses. The gun was there, then it was gone and he was never seen again.

[Tripplebeards]

Had a Colt Andaconda 44 mag with a 8 3/4” barrel and Savage Stryker chambered in 7-08 stollen. This happened back in the 90’s. It happened right before Colt announced they weren’t selling to the public. Savage has a Tasco optic and a custom muzzle brake installed. Found the guy thanks to me finding finger prints. It was soneone I knew since I was a kid and grew up with. He was already in jail at the time. He sold them for drug money. Never were recovered. I still have the serial numbers somewhere and sure would like to find them someday. I bought a replacement Colt a few months later and they Stryker never was replaced. The Stryker was a Christmas present from my parents.

[recumbent]

0 zero

[dverna]

Not yet

[GhostHawk]

Been very lucky, none here lost or stolen.

[dale2242]

One if you include air guns.
I had a Benjamen air pistol stolen that my dad bought me when I was 8.

[Wag]

Just one, a Ruger P89DC. It was the very first pistol my late wife and I bought. We came home one day and discovered that our apartment had been broken into and it and several other things were taken. Never recovered.

Many years later, I was able to buy a new one for the sake of nostalgia. Now, they're harder to find.

--Wag--

[pmer]

Many if you count what there're worth in trade at the LGS!

[schutzen-jager]

zero so far -

[contender1]

Sadly, over the decades,, before I got a safe & such, due to break-ins & all, a total of 5. Two (individually) break-ins at my (two) homes, one out of a vehicle, (by a "friend" who claimed he thought I got it,) and two by a different friend who had borrowed them, then later claimed someone broke in & stole them from his house. I was able to report all but the one gun taken from the vehicle,, even thought I tried to. Police said "no evidence." The two "friends" who stole from me stopped being my friends,, AND has made me less likely to allow a friend to borrow a gun.
I still have copies of police reports, insurance reports, serial numbers, & details to prove they left my control w/o my knowledge. COMPLETE details,, listing names, dates, times etc.

[kbstenberg]

fishing in a fishouse. left the pistol on a counter top so as not to loose it. I got done fishing and started to clean up for the day. I put the shield in the inner breast pocket of my jacket. I leaned over the last hole to close it up. I SAw a splash and there went the shield down the hole (It never hit the edge of the ice) I tried for several days to snag the pistol with a large magnet. But with 5 foot of silt I didn't have a chance.

[Mr Peabody]

0 zero

me too

[OS OK]

I've not had any lost or stolen...I don't think I'd take too kindly to that.

I once bought a new Milwaukee hole shooter, hadn't even pulled the tag off of it and some low life broke into the truck side bin tool box and took only the new drill motor...I think I could beat the dog poo out of them today at 72. I'm still pee-o'ed about that...I just hate a sneak thief!

[hoodat]

Yes I have. Three, one of which was a German Luger.

I won't go into all the details, but I'll say this. -- If you have the numbers to report at the time of theft, the gun will often return to you. If you don't -- you're screwed. jd

[blackthorn]

Two---An AR& survival .22 rifle that stores in a stock that floats, and a 410 double barreled hammer gun that folds in half. They were taken by one (or all) of 3 people. My wife gave them access to a small shop so that electrical work could be done. The guns were not missed for several months and even though there was no one else that got in there, no way to prove who took them. The cop said unlikely I'll ever see them again.

[slim1836]

All of them on a canoe trip in the wilderness.

Slim

[gwpercle]

Lost - 0

Stolen - 3

Recovered and returned by police - 1

I still hope my other two guns show up one day . a Star Model PS in 45 acp and a Walther PPK in 32 acp

Gary

[dolfinwriter]

To date, only one gun stolen out of our house, probably by someone we had cleaning for us when we were both working crazy hours, or some punk kid "friend" of our oldest boy. It was a Marlin 60 semiauto 22 rifle. My first gun was the Glenfield 20, bolt action 22. I still have that one. It was actually at my parents' house being neglected when the Marlin was stolen, or it would probably be gone too. I retrieved it in 2013. It had light surface rust all over, and my stepdad had replaced a lost Tasco scope mount bolt with just some other screw. So I completely disassembled it, cleaned everything with 0000 steel wool and gun oil, and put it back together with a new Barska scope and mounts. It looks great with all original finish, and it is a tack driver with that long barrel that you just don't see on 22s anymore. Now it's in a safe in our house with the rest of our horses of many different makes and calibers. But I wish I still had the Marlin semiauto as the sister gun to the Glenfield bolt.

[Springfield]

2 Enfield rifles were stolen out of my closet. Might have been my roommate, hard to prove. Fortunately they/he didn't see my Marlin 39A hanging in the back as it had a case. Replaced the Enfields, but the Marlin was given to me by my dad and wouldn't have been able to be replaced. Now I have a very stout gunsafe, so that won't happen again.

[pworley1]

I have been very blessed. I have only lost one through theft. My truck gun was stolen once.

[Scorpion8]

One, by family. 'Nuff said.

[HWooldridge]

My son had 4 long guns stolen from a home he lived in during college, but fortunately, he was good friends with a Texas Ranger at the time and they helped recover all of the firearms. They also busted a drug ring at the same time; the group was into all types of crime and had already fenced the guns, but the law was able to find them.

A good friend of mine dropped a .357 Colt Trooper in a duffel bag then put the bag on top of his car and drove away. He went about 3-4 miles before realizing his mistake - but he never found the bag. Someone saw it fall and stopped to pick it up before my buddy turned around.

[Der Gebirgsjager]

None at all. But my daughter had a revolver that I gave her stolen from her vehicle parked in her driveway, and it was recovered and returned by the State Police 2 1/2 years later.

DG

[tja6435]

Had a cop steal the first gun I ever bought, a 4” Ruger GP100.

[compass will]

I had one stolen out of a pickup. old 12g single shot junker I had just bought and stopped on way home.
years later the local Leo called me to ID the gun, it was now a sawed off with short stock, I told him to keep it.

one day I had the Feds track me down through my Father (I had moved out on my own by than). years prior I had traded/sold a Ruger MarkII I used to own. it was used in a crime: they had the purp, but wanted to put the gun in his hands. this was back in the years before computers. I only deal with favorite dealers so I had a good idea where I traded it. but the dealer has passed on and I think the feds has his records, so they know right where to look. I never heard back from the Feds so I think they got there man :)

[Electrod47]

Hands down I have a sizable collection of firearms and I would trade them all to recover just two inexpensive guns stolen from me in 1970'
My grandfather was dying of lung cancer in Kansas in 1963 at age 71. I was 16 and living in California. He had sent to me his bolt action Mossberg 20 gauge with the screw on chokes and a bolt action Remington .22 also a 60lb recurve bow he had built for me. Along with a large cedar chest with all his flyfishing equipment he had taught me with. They were both taken in a burglary. It had to be some punks in the neighborhood and I put out offers for their return of several times the value, to no avail. That really hurt. But, the worse was to come. Paranoid about my stuff being stolen I kept the recurve bow he had made me in the truck of my car for safety. While I was out of town for a couple days
I managed to violate some parking ordinance and my car was towed. When I went to get it the bow was gone from the trunk along with my spare tire. To this day I hate tow trucks and the thieves that operate them.

Over the ensuing years I have bought exact examples of the 20 gauge and .22 rifle. Just to have them. The modified screw choke for the 20 gauge I still have and it rides on the one I have now. I'v taken game with it regular thinking about my grandfather hands on it at least.
Finally at age 46 I was able to get to his grave in Osawatomie Kansas in 1993.

I had the feds return another gun I frankly wished at the time I'd never see again.

I still have my 1970's RG .22 snub nose. In fact in the summertime here in Mississippi I pack that thing in my right rear pocket loaded w/5 rounds No12 snake shot. I "cleaned" the barrel til there wasn't much left of the rifling. Took off the fat plastic grips and wrapped the gun grip with very little black tape to give it a slim profile. That short barrel does not distort or spin the shot pattern and I get a perfect pie plate size cloud landing on those pesky water moc's that show up here weekly crossing from the creek on one side of the house to the pond on the other side. Back in the 70's I was fishing off a jetty near Balboa in Calif. and had the RG in my pocket. Stayed to late and the waves took me off it. Lost my pants in the rescue by some surfers. Long story short 2 days later I had the Feds on my front porch. They had a big time drug dealer dead on the beach. Shot with a .22, plus my pants and the RG with 5 empty shells in it. ( Had a little Jack Daniels and was shooting crabs off the rocks, Oh well ) Anyway, that little piece of junk and me had quite the adventure. Final... Fed Agent said your not who we'er looking for. Gave me a slip of paper to reclaim my property at the Huntington Beach Office. Went down a week later to get my "Roscoe" and it was in a ziploc bag full of sand and saltwater. One big ball of rust. Well that was a waste of time I thought. Came home and dropped it in a solvent tank I had in my shop. Forgot about it. A month later fished it out and Wa' La'..Looked like new. 50 years and still being of use to me.

[jonp]

Several. Someone cut the lock on a storage unit and took all long guns and a shotgun plus a bunch of tools. Thankfully, all my handguns of the time were with me. Nothing much of value and all told maybe $1,500 if generous but still irks me to no end. The State Police were very good and took the list but I never saw any of them again probably due to my losing my SN list so it was description only. A few were very distinctive and I am positive I saw the 12g in a lgs for sale. They wouldn't tell me who brought it in so I called the State Cop who took my info and he called. They told him of course but I never heard anything back although I know it was the gun. The insurance guy for the tools was great and I even sold him a Sig P239 I was letting go.

Only 2 of the guns really mattered. Both from my grandfather, a 308 and a 12g. Common in used racks nothing special to anyone but me.

[Half Dog]

All of my firearms were lost in a boating accident.

[beshears]

60 stolen and 12 recovered. Perps to Federal Pen

[Finster101]

Luckily, none.

[snowwolfe]

None

[beemer]

In the late 80's my Father gave me a new Charter Arms Undercover with a factory bobbed hammer. It was the most accurate 2" barrel revolver I have ever owned. I had a friend that was going through some very hard times, I was trying to help him anyway I could. The pistol was there and several hours latter I discovered it gone, couldn't have been anyone else and I told him so. Never went back and he never asked why. I think that's about as low as you can get.

I reported it stolen, I think you are required to report stolen firearms.

[Jedman]

None, Thank You !

[david s]

Around forty years ago I had a Beretta 92S (serial number B55748Z) stolen out of my home. I've also had a pistol damaged in an auto accident, but the worst was I once lent a "friend" a Remington 572 22 L.R. to take on a canoe trip. He used it to drive tent stakes, I kid you not. I did get the 572 back though.

[Chena]

None of my own, but twice guns I sold to a friend have been stolen in burglaries. Same friend, same house. In the first instance the perps had hours to toss the place and removed a large gun safe unopened. They were both good guns and I was madder than my friend. I have had two attempted burglaries at my current home but have measures in place that have so far been effective.

[Der Gebirgsjager]

So, when you read this convoluted, twisted tale, please remember that times and laws change, are and always have been different jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Please don't start screaming, "You can't /couldn't do that", because I could. Then. Don't know about now.

Back in the early '80s I was a law enforcement officer working with a great partner, at night up in the costal mountains of California in an unincorporated town. We were there looking for drunk drivers, as there was a bad late night accident problem in that area. The smallish town had several bars, popular with those who thought they could drink themselves silly in a fairly remote small town, then drive home without detection.

The action was slow that night, and it was a bit early in the evening, so we decided to write some parking tickets. There was very little traffic moving on the roadways, as everyone was inside slurping down the drinks. The main street of the town was parked bumper to bumper on both sides for several blocks without regard for resident fire hydrants, driveways, red curbs, etc. We just parked the patrol car and walked down the sidewalk finding a violation here and there. We came upon one car with expired license plate tags. I wrote a parking ticket, and in looking into the interior of the vehicle saw an open whiskey bottle on the right front floorboard. We could enter the vehicle to obtain the registration card, and also to search for further contraband. In so doing I found a Mauser Model. 1914 under the driver's seat. Interestingly (now remember this....) the right grip was charred a bit like it might have been in a fire or very near one. I ran the serial number, and it came back as stolen about a year earlier from a house fire in a nearby large city. That squared with the charred grip. Just as an aside, other than the grip the gun was in collector condition.

Well, as Fate and Lady Justice would have it, about the time that I finished writing the citation here came a fellow walking down the sidewalk from the nearest bar. He approached and asked what the problem was, as it was his car, and he was a *** **** Fireman! Wow! A gift like this doesn't happen often. He was arrested for Possession of Stolen Property, a Felony. It was just too open and shut, and I never went to Court on the matter, but did hear at a later date that he was no longer a fireman.

So...I got one back for someone.

DG

[stubshaft]

A total of five, three from a LGS where I had them on consignment and two from my vehicle.

[Ithaca Gunner]

Thank God above, none. I did misplace a S&W M&P .38 once for about two weeks, when I found it I wondered, ''How did THAT get THERE?'' in the bottom of the wife's ceder closet.

[NEKVT]

None lost or stolen but one was "taken". When in high school in the early 70's I would sneek out of the house a Win 60A single shot .22 my father got when he was a teen to shoot with my friend. We were shooting cans in the woods when a nearby homeowner approached and told my friend to give him the rifle......and he did. My father never noticed it was gone but I was always waiting for the question to come up. Fast forward 15 years and a friend stops by my place and says I have something for you. Turns out his friend's uncle was the one who took it and at some point gave it to him and by chance mentioned to my friend he had the rifle. That was 36 years ago and I still have it.

[Keyman]

One Savage 110C 30-06 taken from a truck in Nenana Alaska in the 1980's. Was the first new gun I bought.

[Armorer77]

I had one stolen while in the possession of a girlfriend , lost one under the seat of a friend's jeep , the rest were lost in an unfortunate boating accident .

[gc45]

Not one yet; but did find one in a river while fishing in Alaska.

[goste]

Just one,
Stolen in 2005. was found 2 months later in a drug raid, got the lowlife an extra 10 yrs. in jail. Took 5 years to get back from the cops, and they kept the magazine, and holster it was recovered with..

[Geezer in NH]

None

[bisleyfan41]

All of them, terrible boating accident.

[Texas by God]

I thought that my dog drug this Hi-point off somewhere....for two years.
Found it in the case, in the closet in a shoe cubbyhole.......[emoji848]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221215/0618a700d4693afba79094ed097cc042.jpg

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[technojock]

I lost one in a bet with my grandson...

Tony

[poppy42]

Yep. All of them in that canoeing accident I had. The one I had when I was paddling my canoe over to England!

[TyGuy]

Had my first 10/22 and an old single shot .22 stolen out of my closet. Came home to a kicked open back door and a ransacked house. It was a turning point in my life.

[Thin Man]

Only one that I can remember (and lucky at that). It was in 1976. The wife and I had been married about 3 years and returned to the home where I grew up. With both parents deceased we were the only occupants of the house. We had just bought our first house and were almost through moving into it. We were both at work and my sister (same town, married, home owner) called to say she was getting the last of her materials out of the house before we were to list it for sale. A middle-age man and a young adult came to the door asking if she had any odd jobs they could do. She sent them away and got worried about that visit and called to tell me about it. My next visit to the house was 2 weeks later and I found the front and back doors unlocked and ajar. I cleared the entire interior and found multiple furniture items missing. The '74 was gone, still needing parts to make it functional. I assembled a complete list of the missing items and began a search. This chore was easier because I was then a uniformed officer with our City PD. Started with pawn shops and used furniture shops - nothing. Then came the local auction houses and hit the jackpot when describing some of the odd pieces. They had a new customer who had brought this load and gave up his name and address, along of a full list of the properties they had sold for him and name, addy and phone contact of the buyers. We paid a visit to this person and charged him with burglary and theft. I started calling the buyers and most agreed to return the items and get reimbursement payment from the auction house. When the matter got into court the adult's lawyer claimed he was disabled from some previous activity. Our D.A. would not prosecute him claiming no jury would convict a disabled defendant. Charges against the young adult were then also dismissed. I could not find the serial number for the '74 until about 13 years when I found a letter I had written to Numrich looking for parts and serial number was in the letter. That week I got the rifle entered in NCIC but have had no inquiries since then. I suspect the pair did away with it forever. Not the ending I wanted, but at least we had a rather nice recovery.