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Business Owner-Gun Toter
My wife suffers from depression. I keep the guns locked to protect her and ME. I'm serious about that. She's tried a couple times to quit the meds, with her doctors help. Totally different personality...
OP, AA County will work with you a lot better than most departments about getting the guns back. What they're probably going to want is reassurance that your future wife isn't going to use one of the guns on herself when they hand them back. Believe it or not the police really don't enjoy hours of paperwork involved in storing someone's guns. But when they sign off on the return of those guns to you they are going to own that decision forever in a liability sense. Even if you are the actual owner, she still will have possession of them too from the sounds of it. And, I have to say, when someone makes a statement to the world they are going to kill themselves, it is serious. Threats to kill one's self should always be taken seriously. Call the Firearms Control Officer at AA County Headquarters on Monday and see what he needs to return the guns. There is no covert agenda there to keep your guns from you. Normally I'm the first one to say get a lawyer but in this case I think you'd just be wasting money to be told the same things about what you need to do.
The question was not about the legality of them being taken, it was about what I can do to help the process along now that I am no longer concerned about her hurting herself. For example, would having the original paperwork from when I purchased the firearm help? Would picking up a gun safe help in alleviating the AA police departments concerns?
Just looking for some advice, being fairly new to Maryland I'm not too familiar with the laws. Any constructive comments are welcome.
My future wife suffers from depression and takes antidepressants. Most of the time she is ok, but a few days ago she had a particularly bad day and posted on facebook that she was going to kill herself. This resulted in the police looking for her, not being able to get a hold of her and breaking down our front door. When we got home they confiscated my 4 firearms and put her under a psych hold at a local hospital.
I'm dealing with the psych hold, but does anyone have any advice on getting my firearms returned to me. The AA police are suggesting it could be longer than a month to go through the process. All were legally purchased, two in Florida before I moved to MD and two locally. They included a Savage Arms .22 Rifle, Glock 23, Kimber Ultra Crimson Carry II, and a Colt Carbine I had just picked up the night before the "raid".
We were planning to go to Florida for the Holidays in a few weeks to get married, and the bachelor party was supposed to revolve around the gun range so this is a big disappointment. Any advice on how to expedite the process would be appreciated.
My guess is, they originally took your guns because they kicked in the door and your firearms were not locked in a safe. They can not leave your firearms in a unsafe manner, so they confiscated them. Now you will have to prove that they will be kept in a safe manner where your future wife can not get to them. You will have to wait out out some time to get them back as they will have to enter them into the system. They will have to run them and make sure they are in fact yours and registered them.
I hope your fiancée gets better. Prayers to you and your fiancée.
Sorry to say but probably right. We all think we can fix messed up but it rarely ever happens.Yeow, feel for you. You have a lot on your plate to consider and reconsider, this could be your future............
This right here. Can't leave guns lying around for children or the unstable to hurt themselves.
One thing I probably wouldn't do is get married at this point, she obviously needs help.
This.....GNLaFrance, it all depends on what she exactly said on Facebook and the amount of exigency the police beloved existed. Suicide isn't seen as "legal" and the police have the expectation to stop you from killing yourself. Most people are just crying for help.
Agree....These are questions that can only be answered by the officer handling the case at AA County PD. Every case is different and there's no set answer. The good news is they do have a relatively efficient process and the officer who handles these cases does his best to be helpful. A lot of departments you'd have your case buried under months of backlog and bureaucracy.
Just looking for some advice, being fairly new to Maryland I'm not too familiar with the laws. Any constructive comments are welcome.
My future wife suffers from depression and takes antidepressants. Most of the time she is ok, but a few days ago she had a particularly bad day and posted on facebook that she was going to kill herself. This resulted in the police looking for her, not being able to get a hold of her and breaking down our front door. When we got home they confiscated my 4 firearms and put her under a psych hold at a local hospital.
I'm dealing with the psych hold, but does anyone have any advice on getting my firearms returned to me. The AA police are suggesting it could be longer than a month to go through the process. All were legally purchased, two in Florida before I moved to MD and two locally. They included a Savage Arms .22 Rifle, Glock 23, Kimber Ultra Crimson Carry II, and a Colt Carbine I had just picked up the night before the "raid".
We were planning to go to Florida for the Holidays in a few weeks to get married, and the bachelor party was supposed to revolve around the gun range so this is a big disappointment. Any advice on how to expedite the process would be appreciated.
Just looking for some advice, being fairly new to Maryland I'm not too familiar with the laws. Any constructive comments are welcome.
My future wife suffers from depression and takes antidepressants. Most of the time she is ok, but a few days ago she had a particularly bad day and posted on facebook that she was going to kill herself. This resulted in the police looking for her, not being able to get a hold of her and breaking down our front door. When we got home they confiscated my 4 firearms and put her under a psych hold at a local hospital.
I'm dealing with the psych hold, but does anyone have any advice on getting my firearms returned to me. The AA police are suggesting it could be longer than a month to go through the process. All were legally purchased, two in Florida before I moved to MD and two locally. They included a Savage Arms .22 Rifle, Glock 23, Kimber Ultra Crimson Carry II, and a Colt Carbine I had just picked up the night before the "raid".
We were planning to go to Florida for the Holidays in a few weeks to get married, and the bachelor party was supposed to revolve around the gun range so this is a big disappointment. Any advice on how to expedite the process would be appreciated.
My guess is, they originally took your guns because they kicked in the door and your firearms were not locked in a safe. They can not leave your firearms in a unsafe manner, so they confiscated them. Now you will have to prove that they will be kept in a safe manner where your future wife can not get to them. You will have to wait out out some time to get them back as they will have to enter them into the system. They will have to run them and make sure they are in fact yours and registered them.
I hope your fiancée gets better. Prayers to you and your fiancée.
Well that only makes sense if the guns were just laying out in plain sight. How did the search for his wife (and after not finding her) turn into a search for guns in closets, draws, under beds, or wherever people keep guns in their home?
We are assuming they even had to search.
It's kind of more likely the gal said she was going to kill herself with one of his firearms. They get there...force entry...no one there...they arrive...police ask about guns based off of face book post...he says he has guns and willingly turns them over.
He never contested an "illegal search" of the firearms.....kind of telling me he gave them over due to the situation.
But hey...I could be wrong....my tin foil hat might not be tight this ready in the morning.
OK, I read the OP more closely where he said when they got home the guns were taken. You would hope the LEO's would gun the gun owner the option of relocating the guns the next day.
His second post says that he voluntarily turned them over.bcbg; said:As for the firearms, the rifles were visible, the hand guns were not. I turned over the handguns because I was concerned for her safety and I wanted to be compliant. At the time I was not fully aware of exactly what had been said/done on facebook or that she was going to be detained and evaluated. The question was not about the legality of them being taken, it was about what I can do to help the process along now that I am no longer concerned about her hurting herself. For example, would having the original paperwork from when I purchased the firearm help? Would picking up a gun safe help in alleviating the AA police departments concerns?
His second post says that he voluntarily turned them over.