how to store a luger?

[DonWallbaum]

Plus, such things tend to get "lost" in police property rooms during the sorting out of paperwork.

Some time back, I had a handgun seized by the police in the town I was in because they came to my residence on a search warrant that had a bad address - they really needed to be at the other end of town.

I had failed to get a Handgun Owners Identification Card, which was a little-known city requirement... little known so the cops could seize the weapon when the owner failed to produce a piece of paper about which he knew nothing.

The routine was that the weapon was permanently confiscated by the cops and the owner walks with a minor misdemeanor rap, or charges dropped entirely ... MY issue was I wanted the weapon back, which cost substantially more money <sigh>

The fact that the cops would have never been at my address, and the whole issue would have never surfaced, had the warrant been correct, was viewed by all as unfortunate, but not unfortunate enough for the city to get out of extorting money from me for their screwup. <sigh>