They Just Grabbed My Neighbor's guns

[Ikonoklast]

36. I was going through a divorce at the time, my then-wife thought that calling the police on me

was a valid tactic to build support for her position going into proceedings.

For any reason, no reason, made-up reasons, they police were called to my residence thirty-five times by her. Not once was I arrested, not once was I cited for anything, not once did they even really do anything but tell me that I had to leave my own residence because "the woman usually gets the house in deals like this anyways."

I was told by my attorneys to not leave the residence or my children for any reason, no matter what.

I wasn't about to.

She opened my gun safe by taking the keys from me while I was sleeping, and called the police the next day to come get them.

No restraining order was issued, nothing was adjudicated whatsoever, they just came to my house when I was at work and not only took my property, but also firearms that belonged to other people, not owned by me, that I kept for them in my safe.

They took the 1863 Colt's musket that hung over my fireplace, it belonged to my father but was given to me to display, when I saw it missing the next day I checked the gun safe, saw the door left open, and knew what she had done.

Now, this is after a previous court order was issued keeping either of us from disposing of any property in any way until after the divorce was finalized, or ordered to by the court.

Fairly standard order in a contested divorce case.


The PD chief refused to acknowledge what they had even done, refused to give me an inventory of what they had confiscated, refused to do anything without a court order.

Everyone that was involved in losing property without due process filed a police report for theft, and informed their insurance companies.

I got a court order, all right.

So did the others individuals involved.

So did the insurance companies.

The PD still stalled returning everything until the court sent a county bailiff along with a Sheriff's deputy to the local police department with a summons and served them with it.

There was one pistol one of the police officers wanted, and wanted badly. It was held back for him because the PD said I could not prove ownership, although I produced the original bill of sale (which I have for every firearm I own, along with copies kept elsewhere), the original box it came in, and pictures and serial numbers photographically recorded of each item for insurance purposes.

Even when finally handing it over to me, the PD chief asked me if I wanted to sell it, the shithead.

The judge was not very happy with his previous orders to return everything being ignored by the PD.

He was *not* happy at all.

The upshot was, without any valid reason whatsoever the police department had taken sides during an ongoing civil legal matter, involved themselves with no reason to, and ended up getting into a disastrous situation of their own making.

Soon after this happened, the court served my ex with a order to vacate the premises, to leave immediately.



After ever thing was said and done, sole custody of my three children was given to me, as was the house, everything in it, and all the vehicles except one.