[Terry Tiell]

Well some of you may remember the BS I've been dealing with for almost a year now and it looks like I'm about out of options. I lost my latest appeal to get my grandfathers Luger back from the state of Maryland. They argued and the judge bought it that because its not registered to me or anyone else in my family that its an "illegal gun" as they labeled it and therefor can not be returned. We argued that because it had been in our family since my grandfather brought it back from the war that it is exempt from needing to be registered. They countered with that since we have no proof of when or how we came to have it that we could have gotten it from a street thug last week. My lawyer tried everything he could think of but they shot him down at every turn, I was asked to leave the courtroom when I called the detective a common fu-king thief. My lawyer told me that my outburst had no bearing on the outcome cause the judge had made up his mind already that we're not getting it back.

But even MORE fun! My wifes brand new .45 that they also impounded along with my fathers old .38 and 1891 Mauser, well they're not sure they an release them to us BECAUSE of the unregistered "illegal gun" (Luger) that was in the house! Even tho they're registered and are legal the states attorney said he has to look into it to see if we can have them back. How crazy is this? They stole my grandfathers Luger and now they're trying to take the ones that WE LEGALLY OWN!

But now that the "illegal gun" is out of the house we've gotten a few new additions that are 100% legal that my lawyer says are safe, but I'm afraid to mention what exactly due to all the crap we've been thru. But to be on the safe side none are stored where anyone but my wife and I know where they are.

In other news the wife and I are looking for a new house out of state.