Reporting a stolen gun

[Barnstormer]

If you don't report the guns as being stolen, you can't get a copy of the police report to send to your insurance company to support your claim. If the guns are registered to you, or identified with you in any way, failure to report them stolen places you at risk for being suspected of any crime that they end up a part of. Reporting stolen guns makes sense - it is such a "no-brainer" that it shouldn't require a law - especially a law that can be twisted to punish your for simply having your property stolen.

If the firearm is registered to you and used in a crime, you will be the primary suspect. That doesn't sound like fun and your vacation stash will be spent defending yourself. If your finger prints are on the gun, it won't make any difference if it's registered to you or not.

As far as recovery, a good friend of mine had his office broken into and a very expensive pistol was stolen. He reported it and three years later, the police recovered it during a house search. He spent the next three years trying to get it from the local PD, but someone there wanted it more and keep stalling until my friend finally gave up. It's now in someone's private collection at the PD.

[CBR_rider]

A law requiring it is stupid, no doubt about it. If someone wants to have their guns stolen, not report them as such, and then deal with being (at least initially) the primary suspect in a homicide, robbery series, or drive-by then so be it. The last thing we need in the state is another rarely enforced/almost impossible to enforce law on the books that simply puts pressure on law abiding folks....