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In Texas we can carry pistols in our car/truck as long as they are covered up and what not. So I carried my Colt Gold Trophy .45 ACP in a storage case in my center console of my truck. I leave my truck locked and parked in the garage at my mother's house while I am away.
My mom lives in Colorado now so she does not live at the house where my truck is. She came back to Texas to get some work done on her other car and take care of some business. While she was there, she borrowed my truck. She has a habit of not locking the car up when she gets out in the drive way. So needless to say, the pistol disappeared out of the truck. The neighborhood has gotten pretty bad in the last few years.
This happened around May 15th. She never knew it was in the truck because I did not think anyone would move or drive the truck while I was gone. I found out Monday the pistol went missing when I came home on leave. I reported it stolen to police department. I had no serial number for it and the officer was only able to take down a description of the pistol.
Is there anything I should be doing other than checking with the Pawn shops once a week? I inherited it from my father which is why I have no paper work or anything on it.
I have accepted the fact that the pistol is gone but I would like to make an effort to find it.
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That sucks to hear. Not alot you can do really that i know of. w/o the serial number it's going to be REALLY hard to ever get it back or prove it was/is yours.
It was a Series 70 Colt Gold Cup Nation Match .45 ACP
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That sucks to hear. Not alot you can do really that i know of. w/o the serial number it's going to be REALLY hard to ever get it back or prove it was/is yours.
Thanks. Hopefully, the idiot will try to pawn it off. Or I may try to play catch a robber when I home on leave in the next two weeks. Maybe if I try to make a show of putting more guns in the truck they will be tempted to come get some more.
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Dont waste your time looking for it, you won't find it in a pawn shop.... not saying its not at one, but I'm guessing you fall outside the preferred buyer target audience...
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COps should go to the local projects and just toss (frisk) everyone they see.
The neighbors let people who are visiting their friends/family who are in the local complex of Texas state penitentiaries stay at their house. Since this family moved in and the people have started staying over there, theft in our neighborhood has gone up. Someone tried to break into the house right after we had an alarm system installed. When I lived there I could sleep at night with the doors unlocked.
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Dont waste your time looking for it, you won't find it in a pawn shop.... not saying its not at one, but I'm guessing you fall outside the preferred buyer target audience...
My cousin owns one and is a big time bow hunter outlet. The other is a pretty big time gun dealer. I bought my Benelli there. Is that what you mean by preferred buyer target audience? I really think checking there is a long shot but I really have no idea what else to do. The pawn shops said the police go through all of their tickets looking for stolen guns. I can't image the thief would be so sophisticated as to sell the gun online or through some other means.
Kutnupe, you're a cop right? Can you offer an insight as to how the system works without giving it away?
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^ If thats the case research should be done in the neighborhood of which neighbors had visitors when the gun went missing.
They follow a relatively constant schedule of hitting people while they are at church...
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My cousin owns one and is a big time bow hunter outlet. The other is a pretty big time gun dealer. I bought my Benelli there. Is that what you mean by preferred buyer target audience? I really think checking there is a long shot but I really have no idea what else to do. The pawn shops said the police go through all of their tickets looking for stolen guns. I can't image the thief would be so sophisticated as to sell the gun online or through some other means.
Kutnupe, you're a cop right? Can you offer an insight as to how the system works without giving it away?
Preferred buy = criminal
The problem is that pawn shops are "dirty" by nature. Half the stuff in those places is "hot." If a guy goes in with a stolen gun, a pawn shop will buy the gun a ridiculously low price, and then sell it to someone (at a profit) who has less than honorable intentions. You cant exactly go into a store and ask for a specific model. If he has it, he certainly wouldnt tell you.
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Preferred buy = criminal
The problem is that pawn shops are "dirty" by nature. Half the stuff in those places is "hot." If a guy goes in with a stolen gun, a pawn shop will buy the gun a ridiculously low price, and then sell it to someone (at a profit) who has less than honorable intentions. You cant exactly go into a store and ask for a specific model. If he has it, he certainly wouldnt tell you.
Okay, gotcha.
I just found out today that they caught the neighborhood thief. Unfortunately, my pistol was not one of the many guns they recovered. This happened only two days ago so hopefully it is just lost in the shuffle because I did not have the serial number to cross reference it.
I am glad they caught the thief but I wish my gun was in his stash.
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Glad to hear they caught him! Hope it pops up for you if nothing else you have reminded me to write down my S/N tonight. Although that doesn't get yours back I do appreciate the reminder, auctually I'm going to do ALL of my stuff with S/N's tonight.
It is something I have been meaning to do but have just been lazy, don't wanna be that guy that was GONNA do it...
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Sounds like it's going to be impossible to recover it ... yeah, that's my pistol usually doesn't cut it. If you had recorded the serial numbers that might have helped but even then that's not the best evidence. Do you have any photos of the thing where you might be able to read the serial numbers on it?
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Sounds like it's going to be impossible to recover it ... yeah, that's my pistol usually doesn't cut it. If you had recorded the serial numbers that might have helped but even then that's not the best evidence. Do you have any photos of the thing where you might be able to read the serial numbers on it?
If the gun was originally registered to his father, they shouldn't have too much of a problem identifying the new rightful owner. It's still a long shot though. He REALLY needs that serial number.
Buddy at work came in the other day and had quite the story. It seems 13 years ago a shot gun of his fathers was stolen during a break in. His Dad reported it and gave the police the serial number. They called last week and told him it had been recovered during a drug raid. He'll be getting it back.
You have to report them stolen every 6 months otherwise they drop out of the system.
I had 4 guns stolen from my apartment once. I got 3 of them back. The only one I didn't get back was my M4 carbine.
I dont believe this is true, a stolen weapon goes into a database for life (if you had the serial numbers) Just like a new weapon being registered. Unless the detectives and police i know and work with dont know what they are talking about?
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