************************************************************Not yet but if I ever did I’m keeping it
If I ever was inclined to “turn it in” I’d want a receipt and timing of when I could come pick it up if it came back clean...
Paging Scuba....
See, now this would lead to a conundrum.
If you go to the LEO's, and mention you "found" a weapon, you're obligated, by most state laws, to surrender it. Not doing so is a violation, and they can arrest you for it and confiscate it anyway.
To my knowledge, once a weapon is "turned in", it WILL NOT go back out. Demanding a receipt and timeline for getting it back will get you nowhere. The exception is recovered stolen pieces, that go back to the rightful owner. (As they should.)
If one keeps a found piece, they may, unknowingly, have in their possession, a crime gun, thus possibly linking them to a shooting, or worse, a murder.
So.....what to do? Theoretically, one could hang onto it, clean it to within an inch of it's life, using rubber gloves, slip it into a ziplock bag, and keep it in the nightstand drawer, loaded. Should a perpetrator break into your home, and you have to shoot them with your own legally owned weapon, they could then have that found weapon in their possession when the cops arrived, thus making them even more of a criminal than a simple burglary suspect. Theoretically, of course, IF one wanted to chance altering a crime scene, which is a violation in itself.
Such a conundrum, and ethics problem.........
Roger
