I've learned this much is such a short time her on FR:
The rightful owner said he would give the gun back to me if the Montana Sherriff ever sends it back. BUT the gun actually is the property of the insurance comapany since he was paid for it.
The statute of limitations was a bunch of BS from the police detective that closed the case.
I could seek recourse, but he gun was worth far less than what a lawyer would charge.
I guess I will just rack it all up to a hard lesson learned. The gun dealer I bought it from runs a good long term family business here and I don't think he really means to sell stolen guns. He is just lazy and the law is lax.
Yeah I had not considered any insurance company.
I would think that a reputable firm would want to make good with you rather than force both of you to give more money to attorneys than this is worth. Have you contacted the firm concerning making good on their sale of defective product to you?
What should happen is for the insurance company that owns the gun, sell it to the store you bought it from and they should make good to you by giving it back to you. [If the gun would show up clean now. They should give you another gun if that gun would not show up clean now.] Of course that is only logical not what will probably happen in the real world.
We do not need any more laws. There are too damn many now.
Regards