Quote Originally Posted by Euclid440 View Post
Cost me $150 (for background check and “fees”) and a year, to get back a pistol I had loan my dad 40 years ago. It was still registered to me. A nice 5 screw S/W 6” revolver.

My dad passed 2 years ago, my slime ball sister stole the gun from his house.

She turned it in to the police after, I threatened to file a police report and name her as the suspect, which I did. Of course, they did nothing but take a report.

Does not matter that the gun was stolen, still had to pay and wait and wait, they lost the paper work, but cashed the check. California…
It's not just California. 25-30 years ago I got pulled over for traffic stuff. I had a.truck with a 429 out of an old Mercury station wagon that would pass anything but a gas station. Useless details, useless details... anyway I was young and dumb and got arrested for wreckless driving. I had a pistol legally stored that was confiscated. It took me months, maybe over a year to get it back and it cost me a fortune. Bad thing was it belonged to my Dad. There was no legal or logical reason for them to confiscate it in the first place but I guess you really can't fight city hall