Local PD needs your help

[BHPSteel]

Owner keeps it until it's needed then...

I'm not a fan, but if you're going to report a gun stolen then they'll have all your pertinent information already, the casing is to help track if the gun get's used in a crime, or turns up some other way.

I think it's prudent and responsible to notify the cops when a gun is stolen, and necessary if your gun is covered by insurance.

Giving them some spent brass may allow them to correlate that specific gun with a crime scene at some later time. So what? You already told them someone else is in possession of it.

If they match the brass to brass from a cold case file and they estimate the date of the crime as having occurred when you still owned the gun, you got some 'splainin' to do if their calculations are wrong.

People - including thieves and receivers of stolen property - commit crimes. Not the guns.

If the gun turns up, unless it's utterly wrecked, they can read the serial number and file it on hotgunz.com or work using the data they already have access to. If the serial numbers are wrecked, does anyone seriously believe some plod is going to start a hunt for a needle in a haystack to reunite someone with their precious hand-stippled Glock 19?

And would you even want it back?

 

[HERMET]

 

[T30]

Not sure it would help much. Weapon has a unique identifier already that you can provide if it’s stolen. If it’s obliterated the weapon is now contraband and will be destroyed. It only helps if the weapon is used and officials are trying to link a shot to the weapon. That’s not helpful to you as the owner unless you suspect someone used your weapon to commit a crime. If that’s the case and you still posses the weapon that links you to the crime. State of Maryland I believe requires fires casings for all handguns sold there to be sent to the SP Crime Lab by a FFL for cataloguing. Doesn’t seem to help lower the murder rate in Baltimore.

 

[Jambo]

Yes, it could eventually help recover your firearm.

Wouldn't the serial number be more useful for that?

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

In related news Google wants you to send naked selfies of yourself to Google so that they can scan the Internet to see if there are any matching images out there and find out if your naked pictures are being circulated online but you need to supply your own naked pictures first.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

The above post was based on real events, but my memory was wrong --
it wasn't Google, it was Facebook
(now Meta).
From back in 2017:

As you can imagine their suggestion
went over like a turd in the punch bowl.

 

[volt doc]

The government is never to be trusted. Some folks don't understand the police are the government. Like all gov. agents they just do the bidding of the ones who write the checks. Most things done voluntarily have a habit of becoming mandatory.