Gun Control & RKBA

It had been pawned a day earlier and my BIL stopped in and went ahead and picked it up....4473 and all. He brought it home and shot it a few times and a few days later sold it to another local.

About 4 days later a deputy from a neighboring county (where the gun was bought) showed up at my BILs home (also a deputy BTW) asking about the pistol and that it was a stolen pistol from an investigation he was conducting. My BIL told him it was already sold down the road. This really upset the other deputy and he caused a scene at my BILs house that he "can't just go around selling guns like that."

So he complained to my BILs superior, who ended up calling this deputies super to complain about the lack of professional courtesy during the initial questioning at my BILs house and subsequent phone call to the Sheriffs office. Odd thing was...the supervisor of this deputy had no idea about any investigation or stolen property.

So he started digging, it turned out the "stolen" gun was part of a insurance scam, the deputy had another person pawn the gun, then he reported it to insurance, and then the idea was that he'd be able to "confiscate" it from the pawn shop acting as the deputy in charge of the investigation, only it was already sold. Then he moved on to the last known buyer, only the gun had already sold again. His pitching a fit caught him in a web of lies and fraud. He ended up doing a little time and obviously losing his job.