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Update! Well the Ruger single six turned up at a pawn shop in Norman Oklahoma . Some kid pawned it . How does this work ? Will I have to buy my own gun back ? Law enforcement is working on it but they aren't telling me much .

Friggin' scumbags. Probably some doper needing money for drugs. Good luck, I feel for ya.

Gun is stolen property and law enforcement will/should take the gun into evidence. You then will/should get it back from them.

It all depends.

If you filed an insurance claim and got paid for the stolen guns, then the insurance company may get the gun. If not, you get it back.

I would be in touch with them constantly if you want they gun back... Otherwise it will end up in the evidence room for years and years, then sold at auction or destroyed. Stay of top of it!

Yes I want it back . No insurance . I will keep on 'em !

Good deal! Glad that one is coming home.

Maybe the little dirtbag can link the others as well...

The good ones are always gone! Perps (and some LEO folks), like the good stuff. Be meticulous. Document your guns and insure them well. Buy good guns safes and bolt them together from the inside and on the floor. Make it difficult.

Iam sure the slime won't own up to actually steeling them. If the police got the numbers in to the system, good chance the weapons will find their way home.

yes Pawn shops in NV are supposed to abide by firearm laws, but notice the hand gun ended up in a pawn in OK. FB2 , if i am not mistaken was alluding to the fact that alot of burglars hit places and make a run for Las Vegas to dispose of the loot and gamble, whore, and dope. kind of a one stop shop. saw hundreds of examples when i was in SoCal.
and i wasn't Barney i was allowed 2 rounds.

God I hate thieves ! This whole thing has been a giant PIA .

I'm glad your Ruger turned up. Hopefully the guy that pawned it will have some information on what happened to your AR. He is likely going to get the chance to answer a bunch of questions.

I heard a BATFE guy tell a man, that had found one of his stolen rifles in a gun shop, that they would trace the firearm back and the first person that couldn't explain where they got it was going to be charged with the theft. The gun shop had taken the rifle in trade and were just out the money. The shop owner didn't seem to have a problem with that and he was excited to see a guy get his rifle back.

I can't say what the ownership laws are any where else, but I asked my insurance company what would happen if one of my guns were recovered. They said the stolen property remains mine whether or not the insurance company paid me something. The ownership does not change.

With me, it has been since 2004 and none of the four firearms that were stolen have shown up. My guess is that they are in some hunters gun safe and will stay there or be traded in at a gun shop for something different and will be sold again without ever being checked out to see if it was stolen. I might have even hunted in the same dove field with someone using my Merkel and I would have never known it.

couple years ago my cousins home was burgled. they got 15 firearms among other stuff. one of the perp's was caught on another break in. for a reduced hit he gave information on some open cases. he told LE that the firearms all (any firearms from any burglary they did) all went to one guy. he ran them all to Boise. from Boise they all went to LAS Vegas. some stayed in Vegas but the majority then went through Arizona to Mexico. not one of the guns cuz lost has surfaced.
his insurance co. screwed him bad on this , as it wasn't his primary domicile they denied any coverage. ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT! most policies unless stating coverage of Guns, Art, etc exclude coverage. collectible clause

Yea we'll see what happens . Don't give up hope, maybe yours will still turn up .

I can't speak for how it works in Oklahoma, but in my bailiwick, I would have immediately seized the gun from the pawn shop, along with all of the information they had regarding the party who brought it in, then worked the case backward from there. The gun would have been secured into evidence in the event of a later trial, but you would have eventually had it returned, at no cost to you.

Did the LE agency that took the call log the serial number(s) into NCIC? I have recovered stolen firearms literally years after they were stolen from places thousands of miles away. It's incredible how far they make it. It's always a fun call to make to the original owner, informing him that I just recovered his gun which was stolen a decade ago. I get satisfaction out of it, especially if it was a family heirloom.

PM me if you have any questions, Ill try to answer them for you as best I can being from a different state.

Yes, it was entered NCIC . The kid that pawned it told LE where he got it . They are working it back . The kid paid the pawn ticket so the gun is mine again . Going to pick it up Saturday .
thanks for your help !

I'm betting ,you will find out its someone you know...

Im sure your right . Thats the sad part of the whole deal .

In 1995, a friend had a flintlock muzzleloader stolen in a burglary. Rifle was a TC and had a serial number. Fast forward 9 years and a box arrives with a custom caplock rifle courtesy PA State Police, Glen call them and explains this is not my rifle. Answer: "It is now"

Pops had one stolen. Insurance paid him for it.
Yr and a half later it shows up, local...........a man came to the police station and said his son bought it at a gunshow and he wondered if the serial number was hot............
as they checked the "dad" disappeared.
Yup, it was on the list and it was in same shape as when taken ( VVG).
Pops got it back and refunded the $ to insurance company.

Vendors with stolen guns.............stuff happens. As long as they do a purchase agreement.........they can send the boys in blue after the seller.

Here's something that happens.......

Snowbird away in FL. Relative says they died, brings gun to sell, does purchase agreements.
How is one to know different?
Snowbird comes back months later, sees safe empty and comes to gunshop all bent out of shape.

Rarely do they press charges on the family member that sold their stuff.

A Ruger Single Six? Sweet Mother of God, say it ain't so.
I have one and it is my favorite pistol I'd like to load mine up with mag hollow points and shoot those criminals right in the ass, once each.
Wouldn't kill 'em but would give them something to think about.

Sorry for your misfortune, hope you get your guns back. Bad deal.