Unless the police agree in advance to pay replacement market value for the gun, a gun owner would be a fool to risk having his gun seized. If the killer got the gun though theft, used it in a crime, and then sold it, the current owner would have no legitimate title to the gun.
Haven’t had enough coffee. Of course, the $5K would pay for replacement. IF the guy turning over the gun actually saw the money.
The weapon will be test fired and ballistics done on the rounds. Who knows how many owners have had that firearm, and what may be in its past. A past the current owner will be suspected of having participated in. (one of several reasons why the only used firearms I own came directly from family members)
Also, he or she will likely never see that weapon again. They better get the $5K so-as to use some to get a replacement weapon.
The case against Kevin Sweat is a lock. This was posted years ago because he said he sold the Glock at a gun show.
He got caught for murdering his girlfriend and confessing to someone else.
More troublesome was they rounded up every Glock 22 in the area of the crime and tested them.
The lock on the case is from matching spent bullets found in his fathers back yard where he practiced.
A weird homicide. Some of the details.
According to autopsy reports, Skyla had been shot a total of eight times in the neck, arms, shoulders, chest and abdomen. Taylor had been shot five times in the face, groin and hand.
The county coroner found no signs of sexual assault, but he did find that each of the girls had been shot with two different caliber bullets.
Authorities have identified one of two weapons used in the murder as a .40 Glock model 22. According to OSBI Director Stan Florence, investigators know the weapon, which has serial number EKG463US, was owned by Sweat and was “used in these murders.” Investigators believe Sweat sold the handgun at a gun show in Tulsa in March. The OSBI is offering up to a $5,000 reward for that firearm.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced the arrest of 25-year-old Kevin Sweat, a resident of Henryetta, during a press conference late this afternoon. Already behind bars for the July slaying of his fiancee, Ashley Taylor, now Sweat has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the girls’ deaths.
(The District Attorney) said he will be seeking the death penalty for Sweat.