You see an unsecured long gun, what do you do?

[hoosierdoc]

Coming out of the store today I saw the vehicle next to me with the front window down. In the back was a lot of camping gear in addition to a Bolt action long gun. No idea what it was.

What would you do if you saw an unsecured gun sitting in a car?

 

[mom45]

Probably admire it.

 

[EOD Guy]

Personally, I wouldn't leave a rifle unsecure but if I saw one, I'd keep on walking. I don't find it shocking since it was common as a kid in PA to see rifles on a pickup window rack with the window down...sometimes in my school parking lot.

Times have changed!

 

[Sylvain]

I wouldn't do anything.

Not my business what people leave in their cars.
It's not like if I found an "unsecured" gun laying on the sidewalk.

 

[pack-indy]

Leave a note saying "yo welcome I didn't take yo gat".

 

[red_zr24x4]

Probably admire it.

Personally, I wouldn't leave a rifle unsecure but if I saw one, I'd keep on walking. I don't find it shocking since it was common as a kid in PA to see rifles on a pickup window rack with the window down...sometimes in my school parking lot.

Times have changed!

These,
with the exception of EOD's post, it was in Indiana

 

[hoosierdoc]

No one would have peed themselves a little bit and ran for an adult? I just noticed it, did a double take, and drove off.

 

[Sylvain]

No one would have peed themselves a little bit and ran for an adult? I just noticed it, did a double take, and drove off.

I believe some of our older members might have peed themselves a little bit and not even notice the gun.
Gotta love old folks!

 

[fordmanchris]

About 10 years ago I was going into a pop up fireworks store off of East Washington Street and got out and notice some sort of handgun sitting on a car amp in the passenger seat of a car next to me. The windows were down about a quarter of the way. Someone could have easily got in and taken it. Went into the store and I could quickly pinpoint the gangster wanna-be that it belonged to wearing his empty holster with his xxxxxxl shirt pulled up so you could see it. Made for a good chuckle.

 

[Leadeye]

Bait?

 

[Sylvain]

Bait?

Like for a police operation?
I'm sure they would use something else.Like a machine gun.

 

[pute62]

Leave it the f*** alone, as it ain't mine to play with / worry about.

 

[jd4320t]

Keep on walking.

 

[The Bubba Effect]

Probably post about it on INGO.

 

[NyleRN]

The INGO answer: curb stop the owner and take his wallet

 

[blue2golf]

Killeen, TX. 1993, McDonalds parking lot. National Guard Humvee parked outside, soldiers inside, eating. M16 A2 rifles left in Humvee. I didn't touch a thing, just drove off before I got any kind of blame should those weapons have turned up missing. (Never heard anything, guess they got lucky and didn't lose those weapons.)

 

[Scuba591]

So it wasn't a rifle in my story.... It was two small children. I was leaving the grocery store a few years back and noticed that a women drove up and parked in the fire lane... Getting out, she left a 6 and 5 year old in the car as she walked into the store. I waited 5 minutes and then walked up to the car and started a friendly conversation, nothing perverse, with the kids. Another 15 minutes went by and finally the mom came out. She gave me a rude look and the verbal beating ensued. I could not hold back my thoughts. Thoughts based in opinion and experience looking for missing kids. It takes less than two minutes to abduct a child. Most times I do not interject myself into others stupidity... That time I felt I had little choice.

 

[SSGSAD]

So it wasn't a rifle in my story.... It was two small children. I was leaving the grocery store a few years back and noticed that a women drove up and parked in the fire lane... Getting out, she left a 6 and 5 year old in the car as she walked into the store. I waited 5 minutes and then walked up to the car and started a friendly conversation, nothing perverse, with the kids. Another 15 minutes went by and finally the mom came out. She gave me a rude look and the verbal beating ensued. I could not hold back my thoughts. Thoughts based in opinion and experience looking for missing kids. It takes less than two minutes to abduct a child. Most times I do not interject myself into others stupidity... That time I felt I had little choice.

I've always wanted to know, is leaving a child in a car, alone, FELONY Child Endangerment ?????

 

[medcoxo]

Like everyone else.. looked and walked on..

 

[Sylvain]

Like everyone else.. looked and walked on..

And peed yourself a bit?