Originally Posted by
spencerhenry
when i had several guns stolen many years back, the cops actually told me that they believed that i had broken my own window, taken my guns and sold them and now was trying to collect the insurance. one gun showed up at a gunsmiths shop to "have iron sights put back on it". that one i got back when it was proven to be mine. meanwhile i was trying to get the insurance company to pay me for the others so i could replace them. then one day i am at a friends house and see a guy across the street taking a gun out to his car that looked like mine. while 10-22's are pretty common, an amt small game hunter (10-22 made of stainless, factory bull barrel and synthetic stock), is not common. i called the cops (different jurisdiction) and no one ever showed up to check the gun. a few days later after i figured out who the guy was, the guns were "found" in the gravel where that guy was working as a laborer. they were getting ready to pour a slab over the top of the gravel and guns. he fled to ohio the next day or so and an arrest warrant was issued. the ohio cops found him under a bed at his moms house. until the guy was actually charged, the cops were "sure" that i had done it to collect insurance money.
when i applied for my concealed carry permit, i was told that the wait would be " a long time". i asked if the statute didnt say that they had 90 days to either issue or deny? they said yes, but they were really busy. at 92 days i called to find out where my permit was, they said the cbi was really backed up and they didnt know when it would be approved. at 100 days i called again and got the same answer. i then called a neighboring county and asked them how long the cbi was taking lately, they said about 3 weeks. at 120 days i called again and told them that i knew the cbi was NOT backed up that bad and asked why the neighboring county said is was only taking 3 weeks? they got pissed off at me and told me that they couldnt do anything about it. i was just about to call an attorney when at 123 days i got a call from the sheriffs department telling me that my permit was ready. turns out that my permit had been approved by the cbi months earlier and that someone at the sheriffs department didnt like the idea of me getting a permit and somehow got them to hold the permit indefinitely.
when i applied for my second can, the sheriff only signed one of the two copies of the form. by the time i noticed it, he was already out of the office. i left the form for him to sign when he got back, and then a deputy would deliver it to me. it took several weeks to get the form back, the sheriff had signed it that day, but one deputy who doesnt "like" me refused to give it to me. finally after i raised some stink, someone at the sheriffs department told the deputy that THEY were breaking the law by not giving me my paperwork.
if it werent for a couple of friends i have that are in law enforcement, i would have a much more cynical view of cops.
