craig_o
12-27-2009, 02:34 PM
It's a long story that I'll try and keep brief.
The first gun I ever bought was a PM9 back in December 2006. It was lost in February 2007 after it rode with me in an ambulance to the hospital (I was unconscious at the time). The gun was confiscated from me by hospital staff, and somehow or another got lost for approximately a year.
You see, back in early 2007 it was still technically illegal to have a weapon on your person in your own vehicle in Texas, though it could conceivably be anywhere else in the vehicle (the law changed very shortly after my ambulance ride occurred). The paramedics dragged me from my car, and at some point somebody found my PM9 in my pocket. I even reported it stolen, figuring it was. No charges were filed against me since there was no gun to charge me with, but I could not in good conscience allow a weapon I had owned to be floating around potentially illegally.
Sometime in early 2008, I received a call from a Dallas PD attache at the hospital who let me know they had found my gun in a locker somewhere, and while there were no charges against me they could potentially come in the form of a misdemeanor Unlawful Concealed Weapon charge. It was in a somewhat gray area given that the law in Texas made my "offense" completely legal now. It turns out that the new Dallas District Attorney had said he had no interest in prosecuting any pending UCW cases because of the new law.
Fast forward to 2009. According to the statute of limitations in Texas, I can't be charged with a misdemeanor if I have not been indicted within two years of the offense which is, of course, in the past. Since then I have applied for and received a concealed handgun license, which you can't get if anything is pending against you of course.
So, tomorrow I'm going to finally call the DPD property division and see if I get get my VC6XXX PM9 back :D Wish me luck.
The first gun I ever bought was a PM9 back in December 2006. It was lost in February 2007 after it rode with me in an ambulance to the hospital (I was unconscious at the time). The gun was confiscated from me by hospital staff, and somehow or another got lost for approximately a year.
You see, back in early 2007 it was still technically illegal to have a weapon on your person in your own vehicle in Texas, though it could conceivably be anywhere else in the vehicle (the law changed very shortly after my ambulance ride occurred). The paramedics dragged me from my car, and at some point somebody found my PM9 in my pocket. I even reported it stolen, figuring it was. No charges were filed against me since there was no gun to charge me with, but I could not in good conscience allow a weapon I had owned to be floating around potentially illegally.
Sometime in early 2008, I received a call from a Dallas PD attache at the hospital who let me know they had found my gun in a locker somewhere, and while there were no charges against me they could potentially come in the form of a misdemeanor Unlawful Concealed Weapon charge. It was in a somewhat gray area given that the law in Texas made my "offense" completely legal now. It turns out that the new Dallas District Attorney had said he had no interest in prosecuting any pending UCW cases because of the new law.
Fast forward to 2009. According to the statute of limitations in Texas, I can't be charged with a misdemeanor if I have not been indicted within two years of the offense which is, of course, in the past. Since then I have applied for and received a concealed handgun license, which you can't get if anything is pending against you of course.
So, tomorrow I'm going to finally call the DPD property division and see if I get get my VC6XXX PM9 back :D Wish me luck.