After ONLY 18 months, Feds finally return my guns
nov 4th, 2006, 4 rifles are stolen out of my truck in Salt Lake City. (1 Fulton M14, 1 Springfield M1A, 2 MSTN AR15's with ACOG's)
After an hour plus some rookie cop shows up to bother to take a report (no wonder crime is high by the airport, duh). I figure no chance.
3 days later, Taylorsville PD (suburb of SLC) detective calls and says "we got your guns and we got the scumbags trying to sell them. They are felons, they are going to go away for a long time"
Sweet
How long til I get my guns back?
A couple of months at most.
Ok
Months go by
finally it's decided to be tried as a federal case. Unlike the local PD, the Fed's won't just take pictures, take information and return them. Oh no, they have to have them totally there. Policy you know. (BTW, I checked, besides the initital ATF checkout, they were never checked out of evidence again). I call the Fed DA's office. Every month I call it's someone different handling it. (I mean, how hard can this be? it's a freaking felon in possession case, should take 10 minutes to try).
After continuing to get teh blow off, I finally contacted my State Congresswoman and her office put some fire under their ass and I started getting some answers.
Finally late last month, they decide to release them. The feds send a letter to the local PD, the local PD sends a letter to the SLC sherrif's office (where they are being held) and they finally contact me. I say "sweet, ship 'em to me, diesel is $5 a gallon"
Well, we can't do that. But, we can ship it to a local PD.
Sweet
Fair enough
I got to go and get them today.
Believe it or not
All there, magazines, cases, ACOG's, everything. (good thing it wasn't LAPD), lots of fingerprint dust, but they look fine.
So, kudo's to Taylorsville PD, SLC Sherrif's and don't ever let the feds get a hold of your guns.
