Found a handgun in a Theater?

[ArmyCop]

I just read where a woman sat down with her granddaughter to watch a kids movie and a handgun fell from the seat. She turned it in to the Theater manager who called Police who are trying to find the owner.

Very small chance of this happening to one of us I'm sure - but - just curious - what would YOU do if you found a gun in similar situation (theater, public restroom etc...)

I'm guessing most here would do the same as this lady but curious if someone has a different answer.

[BigSkiff]

Yup, I'd turn it in, but probably to the PD rather than the theater manager.

[Panda]

Yup, I'd turn it in, but probably to the PD rather than the theater manager.

Same here, you never know where it's been.

[texastaurusguy]

I have a hard time believing that a CHL holder could have done this.....I spend alot of mental energy 'keeping up' with what I'm carrying, I just can't help it. I think if it fell out of my pocket, I'd be very aware that it had.

[slapy5150]

i would turn it into police in fear that it was used in a crime. I found a womans wallet in a theatre once and it had several hundred dollars in it. After I turned it in I could help think that they took the money out of it after the faces they made when they opened it. She had pictures of her kids in it and I couldnt help but think that was grocery money. Swore after that I would only turn things like that into the police.

[wssdallas]

Yup, I'd turn it in, but probably to the PD rather than the theater manager.

+1 on that. Definitly to the police. Managed a drug store in the 80's and found a 357 magnum hidden behind picture frames when I started to re-do the section. Kind of scary. Why was it there? Never heard anymore about it.

[winter]

well these new people i mean new to guns who get there permits are not like the rest of us we eat ,crap, go everywhere but these newbies are not conditioned like that i go nowhere without mine they could of honestly forgot it or maybe it was a gangbanger and he needed to lose it

[slapy5150]

+1 on that. Definitly to the police. Managed a drug store in the 80's and found a 357 magnum hidden behind picture frames when I started to re-do the section. Kind of scary. Why was it there? Never heard anymore about it.

Off subject for a sec Dallas wife, but glad to see that you are doing better. Glad to see for sure.

[locknload]

Yup, I'd turn it in, but probably to the PD rather than the theater manager.

I gotta agree with the BigSkiff. Definitely contact the police, & let them
handle it.

[joe sixpack]

i remember a few years back a FBI agent (believe it was a woman :P) left her gun in the bathroom at an airport.


uh what would i do.

well if it as a GG gun i'd want them to get it back.
but here's the thing.. i remember once me and some friends found a dirt bike by the rail road tracks laying in water.

we took it home, my friends wanted to keep it.. but i did the right thing and told my mom.. who called the police.. who picked it up.

they told me if they could not find the owner or no one claimed it within 90 days the bike was legally ours.

my friends was pretty pissed off.
anyway 90 days goes by we call the PD.. come to find out 4 weeks after they picked it up they had sold it at auction.

so apparently neither the rightful owner nor me and my friends got the bike instead the PD got some money out of it ain't that nice?

if i could find out the owner of the gun i'd want them to have it back but im not sure i'd turn it into the police with the assumption i'd get to keep it if they could'tn track the owner down.

i'd have to investigate a bit more before deciding what to do.

if you force me to answer on the spot i'd say:

I'd clean it and goto the range :P