My friend LOST his Kimber 1911!!!

[Automatic Slim]

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, and we got on the issue of guns. He told me he had a Kimber 1911 "Custom Made", with "3 different safeties on it: a grip safety, a manual safety, and a trigger safety(?)."

I asked him what happened to it, and he told me he let a friend hold it while he lived at some place that didn't allow guns. Didn't have time to ask him where that was, because he told me that the "friend" that was holding it jioned the Army and he never saw him again. This was about 5 years ago.

I advised my friend to go down to the sherriff's office immediately, and report the weapon missing or stolen. Any crime that is commited with it, or it's # is run through the system by police, will come back to him eventually. He just didn't seem to concerned, and kinda laughed it off.

Even though it's been 5 or so years, I told him he was a fool if he didn't report it. He obviously knows little to nothing about firearms, and probably won't do anything unless I keep ragging him on it. I feel he may be scared to report it, or simply embarrassed.

Anyway, he's still my friend. Just kind of an IDIOT, that's all.


Slim

[deepdiver]

good advice!

[phaetos]

I guess if he

obviously knows little to nothing about firearms

, that would be why he had a "custom 1911" made from Kimber with

a grip safety, a manual safety, and a trigger safety(?)

.

I take it you never saw this gun. Sounds like BS to me.

[sloan1919]

Also not all states have gun registration, Like mine! So.... He may not have to worry about someone putting bodies on the gun and coming back on him.

Sloan

[BoomerBSG]

i can hear that convo now.

"hey, i'm living someplace that doesnt allow guns, will you keep this for me?"

"suuure... no problem."

"cool, thanks.. and by the way, i dont want your address or phone number so i can retrieve it later on."

"even better! thanks"

[Automatic Slim]

Originally Posted by phaetos

I guess if he , that would be why he had a "custom 1911" made from Kimber with .

I take it you never saw this gun. Sounds like BS to me.

He wouldn't lie. He probably never shot the thing. His father is also a good friend, and he brought the subject up. Just another ignorant fool, AND my friend.

[Captain Jack]

Wow, with all those safeties, you'd think the gun would be, I don't know, safe.

That was only an attempt to be humorous, iz all.

[rrent]

Automatic slim --- ask your buddie if he has a small stack of $100 dollar bills he'd like you to hold for him --- better yet tell him you know a guy on a forum that would be glad to hold the $100's for him.

[jtkratzer]

you must be pretty good at making friends with people you call idiots, yet you were the one who had your gun taken like stealing candy from a baby.

[Deacon51]

I lost my first handgun.

It was a little .25 Semi-auto that I got from a Pawn Shop for $30. The thing was pretty beat up, and I didn't treat it very well at all. It had a habbit of fireing either a single shot and failing to feed, or a burst of 2 or 3 rounds and stove piping, or maybe... blazing through all 10 rounds in the Mag.

I was wast deep in a bever pound hunting bever and carrying it as a side arm when a water moccosan sliped out of a tree into the water and started heading my way... I pulled out my little .25 and it poped off 3 rounds and pinched my hand causing me to drop it in the muddy water... with the snake still comming I did some funkey dance back towards the shore where I unslung my 10/22 and dispatched the snake...

I searched for the .25 in the water a little but decided it was probley for the best that the weapon was lost.

Now, ask me how I lost the Kabar my grandfather (4th CEB) carried on Saipan and Iwo Jimia.