On a flip type of keeping a gun, my wife manages an apartment complex that her boss owns. They had a tenant move out overnight and left a Ruger P95 in a kitchen cabinet, along with other miscellaneous items in the apartment.
She called me when the cleaning lady found it. I went to the apartment and secured it and called the county sheriffs office and had them run the serial number to see if it was stolen, etc. Nothing in NCIC, state or local records. Brought it home and stored it in the safe in case the tenant whose name was on the lease came back looking for it.
Fast forward 4 plus years later, a girl (supposedly the guys ex-girlfriend) comes into the office looking for ‘a pistol’ that was left there. Said it belonged to her Dad. Wife said she’d check into it and see if they could possibly find it. Called me and I advised to tell her that the firearm was legally acquired from abandoned property in the apartment, and since she was just the girlfriend and not the person on the lease, it would only be released to her if she could produce a bill of sale or at least the serial number, and also show she could legally posses a firearm. She said she would get a lawyer, and I told her to have them call me, but even if they could provide documentation, that there would be a $10 per month storage fee assessed, which after 4+ years, at $480+ it would be a lot cheaper to go buy another one. Needless to say, that’s been a couple of years ago and it is still being ‘stored’ $$$$$$$.
