Daddy sure could use a .45 Glock to go with his 9mm Glock for Christmes!
Don’t know if your area is like mine but the likelihood is you’ll never see the weapon again.
I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole ... probably stolen and used in some kind of violent crime.
I would have picked it up, kept it, and not said anything to anyone about it.
Don’t know what state you are in, but there is probably some law about improperly/unsafely disposing, or keeping a firearm, which means it is evidence of a crime. Even if they never find a suspect. Bottom line, no law abiding citizen throws a gun away like this. It is obviously contraband. But, it can’t hurt to ask, call the agency and ask.
Almost ZERO chance the cops would let her have the gun.
Who’s names would be on the From/To for the FFL transfer?
Is she 21?
Try to find .45AGP ammunition.
My guess that is the police trace the origin and subsequent disposition, they will find it was illegally obtained - whether through a straw purchase to a known felon or outright stolen.
In that case, Not entitled IMO
Yes, assuming she hasn't lost her rights through being a convicted felon, insanity or imbecility.
Is there any point calling to make this request of local police department?
Yes certainly! Same odds as winning a dollar with a lottery ticket, but at no cost.
Will they tell her if the weapon was used in a crime?
Yes, they will, whether it was or not...
Daddy?
Daddy??
How old is your daughter? If she's over 8, the gun is hers.
Besides. You can't handle the word Christmes. You shouldn't be handling a gun ;)
I cannot believe some perceived right to keep the gun is even a consideration under the circumstances described.
If it was stolen from an owner who reported it they have the serial number. So, if one picked it up to keep/use and it was later used legally in self defense and then documented/discovered... the new owner would be in world of shiite for possession of stolen firearm.
No one throws a Glock out the window who isn’t a perp. That’s a given. Depending on where this was, could have been a service weapon yet another bozo “lost” while jogging.
Another option— have the S/N run by a friendly officer and see what’s what— not saying you have it etc.
But, just picking it up to use— dangerous on a lot of levels if it’s jamming or has been misused/damaged.
Quietly add it to your collection.
Trade if for a 10mm.
If someone tossed it away, there was probably a reason. Go out and get a new one.
Morals call for you too have done what you did. Probably stolen, probably used in a crime. It wasn’t yours, you don’t keep it.
The attitude of the law toward found objects varies from state to state.
Morally, as a Lockean, I regard found objects whose owner cannot be discovered to have reverted to common. A finder can thus, without committing theft, appropriate the found object from common by the labor of picking it up. This is why we all, without guilt, pick up coins we find lying on public sidewalks, but point them out to their owners when we see them fall out of their pockets — in the former case the coin has reverted to common, in the latter, it has not, since an owner is identifiable.
There is a point in asking, since perhaps when your state passed the prevailing statutes, a Lockean attitude prevailed in the legislature and what I regard as the correct approach to found objects was put into law.
She did the right thing. If it helps solve a crime or puts a perp or murderer away then sleep well.
I found a pistol once in a hidden campsite in some woods in Dallas, that looked like no one had been around for at least a week.
There was also a letter there from the guy to his out of state father, describing how the police mistakenly thought that he was wanted for some shootings of store clerks in Dallas. The patrol cop that came to my house to collect the pistol had zero interest in the letter or where the camp site was, all he wanted was that pistol.
I never could get the cop interested in the bigger picture, and I think to him the pistol was just a free gun for his collection, or a drop pistol.
If it was involved in the local shootings, then using it as a drop pistol would cause ripples in true justice that could go not only from keeping a bad guy on the street, but to a false conviction of some poor sap, who knows.