How long to get your gun back?

[nikon777]

When your involved in a justified shooting, and have no charges filed against you, how long does it take to get your firearm back roughly?

[Hwkeye]

Do you need to tell us somthing??

I am under the impression, and I have nothing to back this up, that it would be after the DA clears your case and the investigation is closed. There will be an investigation and it will be brought before the DA, even if it is a super clear justified shooting. It is held in evidence until then. This can take probably a couple months I would think at best.

[MordeKyle]

sometimes you never get it back.

many departments make you sue them for the firearm b to be returned to you, and with legal fees and such its cheaper to buy a new one

[Hwkeye]

Just currious if anybody knows why????

[cove702]

Because some departments, cities, counties or whatnot do not want the liability of returning a weapon if said weapon is ever used in the future to commit a crime.

With a court order they can state that they had no choice in the matter and had to return it to per a judge's order and thus can not be held liable for whatever happens after that.

[nikon777]

Originally Posted by Hwkeye

Do you need to tell us somthing??

Haha no, A recent ccw holder here was cleared and they wont give him his weapon. As a poster above mentioned, I believe he has to go through a judge to get it back.

STORY:

Op-Ed: Damon Wells wants his gun - and his life - back

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Submitted by cbaus on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 01:05.

• Guns in the News

By Chad D. Baus
Grassroots gun owners have likely not forgotten the name Damon Wells, the concealed handgun license (CHL)-holder who defended himself from a violent attempted robbery in his front yard back in April 2007. Though CHL-holders have defended their lives in many other instances, Mr. Wells' situation played in the media for days and weeks after because of the reaction of his gang-infested neighborhood (they broke out his windows and hoisted memorials to his thug attackers).
The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Regina Brett recently reported that not only was Damon Wells made victim by his attackers, and subsequently his neighbors, he is now being made victim by the City of Cleveland's police department. That's because, 9 months later, Wells is still waiting for CPD to return his confiscated firearm.
From the story:

1. Damon Wells wants his gun back. His holster, too.
   He waited for three hours Monday at the Justice Center as a judge sentenced someone else to prison for killing 15-year-old Arthur Buford.
   ...They felt some relief that Mardale Williams was sentenced to 18 years to life for the bullet that killed Arthur Buford.
   They want to have it all over and done with. Only it isn't over and done with.
   Damon still doesn't have his gun back. Police kept it for evidence. Tiffany said that when he asked for it, Damon was told he has to write the safety director for approval to return the gun.
   "It's wait, wait and wait," Tiffany said. "We've been waiting since April. He didn't commit a crime. He didn't do anything wrong. The case is over."
   Only it's not.
   Damon Wells wants his gun back.
   His life, too.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

[coldsolderjoint]

Did he own the house? Or was he just renting it?

I don't know man. thats a bunch of BS what they are putting him through

.. I wouldn't be forced from my house involuntarily.. Sell it first maybe.. but not just up and leave..

[nikon777]

Originally Posted by coldsolderjoint

Did he own the house? Or was he just renting it?

I don't know man. thats a bunch of BS what they are putting him through

.. I wouldn't be forced from my house involuntarily.. Sell it first maybe.. but not just up and leave..

Rented.

Look what the crack head councilman had to say about him renting the house:


Councilman Reed claims that the house CHL-holder Damon Wells regularly stayed in was not his "home". Goodness, using Reed's definition of "home", the numbers of homeless would be quite high in Ohio, wouldn't they? And if Wells wasn't run out of his "home" - does that mean the Cleveland police union should tell the volunteer officers who plan to give their time to protect Wells' domicile to stay..."home"?
What kind of idiocy is this from the representative of the ward where the self-defense shooting occurred? The same kind of idiocy, perhaps, that has gotten this councilperson arrested for drunk driving and resisting arrest, and sent to jail for probation violations, all while being a councilman.

Sadly, I lived in that ward for about a year or so. Ive met this clown several times.

[rogerxd45]

idaho has a law requireing the police to return a firearm if the shooting was justified

[speedtrucker]

does anyone know about Texas laws for returning a firearm used in justified home defense?

My co-manager's father and brother had their handguns confiscated as evidence from a home invasion. 1 of the invaders was wounded and later arrested at a hospital and had outstanding warrants for assualt.

so they(his father and brother) were cleared but no one is giving them straight answers on getting their firearms back. they had to fill out a form that listed the value of the firearms but still no one has told them how or when they will get them back. 1 detective told him that he should get them back but shrugged after that.

It's interesting because my co-worker just decided to go out and purchase 2 new glocks for them until they get their own firearms back. needless to say his father is refusing to buy a new firearm because he wants his old revolver back.