Do you get your gun back after a justifiable shooting?

[actaeon277]

Losing a pistol (temporarily or otherwise) after using it for self-defense is the least of my worries. I'm a lot more concerned about having the best tool for the job available when I need it. If it needs replacing after I need it, I'll find a way.

It's kind of like people who spend their life using crappy truck stop knives, but they have a Sebenza in a safe deposit box because they don't want to lose it. That's a choice they make, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

 

[blue2golf]

I carry a Ruger LC9s. Nothing glamorous but it has never jammed on me and I would hope to get it back from the police if they took it for evidence.

That said, I can get another one pretty quick if I had to. They're all over the internet.

 

[edporch]

Sure wouldn't hurt to have your backup nearby either. Gotta get home and what kind of a physiological trip will that be unarmed, coming home after defending yourself earlier?

Problem is, if you were in a justifiable shooting and had a backup weapon accessible to you at the scene, the police would likely swipe it too.

What i wonder is, if you were in a justifiable shooting in your own home, and had a collection of weapons, would they swipe all of them, "just to be sure"?

So now your entire collection would be thrown in a pile, and by the time you got them back (if ever), their value would be destroyed, possibly to the tune of $thousands.

ALL because you exercised your legitimate right of self defense.

 

[bwframe]

Problem is, if you were in a justifiable shooting and had a backup weapon accessible to you at the scene, the police would likely swipe it too.

What i wonder is, if you were in a justifiable shooting in your own home, and had a collection of weapons, would they swipe all of them, "just to be sure"?

So now you're entire collection would be thrown in a pile, and by the time you got them back (if ever), their value would be destroyed, possibly to the tune of $thousands.

ALL because you exercised your legitimate right of self defense.

I like the idea of having them spread out a bit for just this. Eggs in one basket sort of thing.

Same thing for getting home. Never know when the hommies might figure where home is before you can get there. If you really want to go tinfoil hat, so might "the authorities."

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Sometimes the most interesting things about these threadsis seeing what people guess and assume.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Sometimes the most interesting things about these threadsis seeing what people guess and assume.

Interesting and entertaining at the same time.

 

[bwframe]

I'm here all week folks.

 

[indiucky]

Interesting and entertaining at the same time.

True that....

 

[KLB]

Sometimes the most interesting things about these threadsis seeing what people guess and assume.

Interesting and entertaining at the same time.

Come on. We all know you coppers just conspire all the time on how to get our guns.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Come on. We all know you coppers just conspire all the time on how to get our guns.

You know it. And its not just guns.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

You could easily just have them shoot in a barrel of water and take the casing as that's all their testing anyway and they could keep their weapon to defend their self again if needed.

We, by "we" I mean me, certain endorse this idea.

 

[rhino]

Sometimes the most interesting things about these threadsis seeing what people guess and assume.

I assume nothing! My guesses are always wrong!

Here is one of my hypothetical situations that so many people hate because it's hypothetical:

Person A is involved in a shooting that the investigators on the scene believe is a valid self-defense situation. Investigator B takes the gun used during the incident as evidence. It becomes known that "A" has a second firearm on his person that was not used. Is "B" likely to take the second firearm as well?

Same scenario, but the second gun is in a nearby, locked vehicle that "A" did not access during or after the incident. Is "B" likely to take the second gun?

 

[bwframe]

...Here is one of my hypothetical situations that so many people hate because it's hypothetical:

Person A is involved in a shooting that the investigators on the scene believe is a valid self-defense situation. Investigator B takes the gun used during the incident as evidence. It becomes known that "A" has a second firearm on his person that was not used. Is "B" likely to take the second firearm as well?

Same scenario, but the second gun is in a nearby, locked vehicle that "A" did not access during or after the incident. Is "B" likely to take the second gun?

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Guns is plural. If you lose one shotgun to the evidence locker, you've not go no protection?

Problem is, if you were in a justifiable shooting and had a backup weapon accessible to you at the scene, the police would likely swipe it too.

Sometimes the most interesting things about these threadsis seeing what people guess and assume.

Interesting and entertaining at the same time.

IIRC it was here in IN there was a self defense shooting in an apartment, the shooter wasn't charged/arrested but the police seized all the firearms and iirc pellet guns in the apartment, not just the one that was used. While it's probably not commonplace for that too happen, I'd say it would depend on location/people involved/and the specifics of the shooting.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

IIRC it was here in IN there was a self defense shooting in an apartment, the shooter wasn't charged/arrested but the police seized all the firearms and iirc pellet guns in the apartment, not just the one that was used. While it's probably not commonplace for that too happen, I'd say it would depend on location/people involved/and the specifics of the shooting.

Source please.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Source please.

I'll see if I can find it, I'm pretty sure it was discussed on here.

 

[Joniki]

IIRC it was here in IN there was a self defense shooting in an apartment, the shooter wasn't charged/arrested but the police seized all the firearms and iirc pellet guns in the apartment, not just the one that was used. While it's probably not commonplace for that too happen, I'd say it would depend on location/people involved/and the specifics of the shooting.

Would you be required to disclose the locations af your gun safes? Would you have to open them?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I assume nothing! My guesses are always wrong!

Here is one of my hypothetical situations that so many people hate because it's hypothetical:

Person A is involved in a shooting that the investigators on the scene believe is a valid self-defense situation. Investigator B takes the gun used during the incident as evidence. It becomes known that "A" has a second firearm on his person that was not used. Is "B" likely to take the second firearm as well?

Same scenario, but the second gun is in a nearby, locked vehicle that "A" did not access during or after the incident. Is "B" likely to take the second gun?

On the person, it depends. If one follows the INGO advice of not saying anything at all to the police, how do I know which you used? How credible are you? How complex is the scene, as in were there multiple people shooting and multiple types of spent cartridges at the scene? Are there witnesses or video?

 

[chuckp]

I assume nothing! My guesses are always wrong!

Here is one of my hypothetical situations that so many people hate because it's hypothetical:

Person A is involved in a shooting that the investigators on the scene believe is a valid self-defense situation. Investigator B takes the gun used during the incident as evidence. It becomes known that "A" has a second firearm on his person that was not used. Is "B" likely to take the second firearm as well?

Same scenario, but the second gun is in a nearby, locked vehicle that "A" did not access during or after the incident. Is "B" likely to take the second gun?

I had multiple guns taken from me on my self defense issue. Only one of them was used. It was not on my body but was nearby.

Chuck

 

[chuckp]

Would you be required to disclose the locations af your gun safes? Would you have to open them?

I do not believe your are required to disclose the location, but the location will be sealed off as a crime scene. You will be removed and if they find a safe they will/can get a search warrant. In my personal situation I had a threaded ar15 barrel on my dresser and they claimed it was a possible assault ban violation and got multiple warrants with that. I was told to give them the combo or they would get a locksmith to open them without me. I convinced them that I would open them without giving them the combo.

Where they screwed up was it was in Nov 2004 after the assault weapon ban ended. By the time I found out the reason two years later it was too late and I had no choice since they acted in good faith, even though it was a lie.

chuck