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    Loaded guns found in vacation rentals and hotels

    This is what happens when people who aren't serious carry guns:

    Police in Kill Devil Hills shared pictures of two guns recovered the same day last month. One, a semi-automatic, was left in a nightstand of a vacation home. The other, a Glock brand pistol, was left under a mattress at a nearby hotel. So far this summer, the department has responded to nine such calls.

    https://www.wral.com/loaded-guns-lef...tels/19818686/

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    I’m reminded of the FAM who left a pistol in the latrine mid-flight, and the member of the British PM’s detail who left a pistol in a restaurant bathroom. Inattention happens—though of course it shouldn’t.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Français View Post
    I’m reminded of the FAM who left a pistol in the latrine mid-flight, and the member of the British PM’s detail who left a pistol in a restaurant bathroom. Inattention happens—though of course it shouldn’t.
    Wasn’t there an article floating some years back about a report that came out detailing how many handguns FAMS had forgotten in airport bathrooms? I remember it being relatively a lot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WobblyPossum View Post
    Wasn’t there an article floating some years back about a report that came out detailing how many handguns FAMS had forgotten in airport bathrooms? I remember it being relatively a lot.
    I don't remember seeing that. Preventing this sort of thing is the real reason to use pistol lanyards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WobblyPossum View Post
    Wasn’t there an article floating some years back about a report that came out detailing how many handguns FAMS had forgotten in airport bathrooms? I remember it being relatively a lot.
    Yes. And then there is the Secret Service that has managed to leave guns in the bathroom of AF1 and in Romney’s plane. I think that both were found by press pool reporters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amp View Post
    This is what happens when people who aren't serious carry guns:

    Police in Kill Devil Hills shared pictures of two guns recovered the same day last month. One, a semi-automatic, was left in a nightstand of a vacation home. The other, a Glock brand pistol, was left under a mattress at a nearby hotel. So far this summer, the department has responded to nine such calls.

    https://www.wral.com/loaded-guns-lef...tels/19818686/
    Happens all the time. So often, that if you're an FFL in close proximity to a batch of hotels you can make a tidy sum in transfer fees.
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    I don't begrudge LEO's who leave behind their sidearm after a bathroom visit. However I'm not happy the consideration they get isn't equally applied to the civilian population. I've seen plenty of reports of cops leaving a pistol on a toilet and nothing came of it. Yet a regular Joe does the same and it is a way different outcome.

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    One of my Gunsite instructors left their handgun in the bathroom ahead of me during a Gunsite class. My wife once left her fanny pack with a Glock and her wallet on the bed stand in a rental in the FL Keys, and we were nearly to Jacksonville before she realized it. “Jax Center, we need to divert back to Marathon.”
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