Emergency gun loan, looking for stories

[Sietch]

I'm looking for examples of folks who've loaned a firearm to a friend, family member, neighbor, etc during a time of emergency, such as in the aftermath of a tornado or windstorm.

Here's one.

A few years ago my Father was one of several defendants sued by a former employee who had recently been terminated, and was himself being sued by the company. Among his complaints were some very serious allegations, such as threats by the company and individuals to harm him and his family. It was my Father's personal opinion that the guy had become mentally ill. While the lawsuits were going on, Dad ran into the guy several times at unlikely places (considering how far apart they lived from each other), like the grocery store. He also ran into the guy's wife in the same unprecedented way. This creeped Dad out, especially being that he lives alone and on a semi-secluded property. I gave him my SR9 to keep in his bedroom. He returned it a while later when he felt right doing so.

[gunsmith]

Could one safely assume that the quest for these stories is GOCRA Strategery? to counter registration / transfer / background check / confiscation schemes?

[Hmac]

I've loaned guns to friends before - a buddy whose home burned down. I would never loan a weapon to anyone unless they were trained and competent. I don't mean just a simple permit to carry, I mean actually trained and competent beyond that rather minimal credential.

[photogpat]

Again, not looking for an ethical or policy debate... Just examples.

[bstrawse]

Could one safely assume that the quest for these stories is GOCRA Strategery? to counter registration / transfer / background check / confiscation schemes?

Assume nothing - Pat likes to write literature in his copius free time
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[PHATSPEED7x]

Never loaned just the gun. I've always been part of the package. Worked private security on several cases with both my rifles and shotguns...

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[gdubya]

Mom's friend, another retired schoolteacher, was being stalked by her abusive ex-husband despite a restraining order while she was living alone in the same house they once shared. Police were never able to catch him and she was scared as hell he would get in somehow and do her harm. Took her to the range, put box of ammo through an old hungarian hi-power copy I had bought on a lark at a gun show and offered to loan it to her indefinitely with a mag full of defensive ammo I knew it liked. She was reluctant, but accepted when I told her how little I paid. Less than 24 hours later, I got a call from Mom and she was feeling so much safer that she was now more scared I might ask for it back and wanted to buy it from me. Mom offered pay whatever I charged. Took the original price and threw in the rest of the box of ammo. Mom told me later that apparently a mutual friend told her ex she had bought a handgun and she never saw him near her house again.

[Deputyhiro]

I loaned my SRC9 to a friend that needed it to take a permit to carry class. He didnt own a pistol, and didnt want to get a permit to purchase just to go back and get a permit to carry. After he got his permit to carry, he went and bought his own.

[ttousi]

Loaned to a lady with a stalker until she took P2C class and decided on a carry piece.

[gunsmith]

Mom told me later that apparently a mutual friend told her ex she had bought a handgun and she never saw him near her house again.

More guns, Less Crime

[20mm]

I once loaned my gatt to ma homie Tyrone. He was visiting from outa town an said he needed it for an emergency cause a gang was buggin on him.

[selurcspi]

Lt Col Dave Grossman and two FrontSight instructors were coming to town and wanted to travel light. We loaned all three of them guns that matched their personal carry pieces.
1 x 1911 for Dave
1 x Glock 19 for Jeff
1 x XDm for Roland.

Wait a minute. Where the hell did you get a GLOCK from. Mr. Anti-GLOCK.

Never ask a man what's in his collection

[Keith]

Does this count? It was a while ago, though.

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/ind ... se-act.htm





More recently, and a little closer to home, there was the self defense shooting in Rockford a few years ago where the shooter used a borrowed shotgun.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/101520



Quote below from old strib article.

Ex-boyfriend kicks in door, new boyfriend kills him
Jim Adams, Star Tribune

The crashing back door snapped Eric Cegon and his girlfriend awake in her apartment. Fear grew as they heard feet rapidly climbing the stairs to their barricaded bedroom door about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Cegon, 30, grabbed the shotgun next to their bed and sat up, hoping the locked door would hold. He said he knew the intruder was the man who had threatened his life and held a knife to his girlfriend a week earlier.

The girlfriend, Samantha Simons, covered up her 2-year-old son and screamed as her ex-boyfriend kicked in the door, knocking over the small dresser lodged against it.

"I knew if that door came open what I would do," Cegon said Thursday. He fired the 12-gauge shotgu! n he had borrowed from a friend two weeks before to protect himself. The blast knocked Erik A. Richter, 35, to the floor.

A loaded gun fell from his hand.

"You killed me," the couple recall Richter saying.

Cegon squeezed the trigger again.

"I shot him again to make sure he didn't get up," Cegon said. "I'll never forget the smell."

Simons, 21, said that Cegon had to do it or that Richter "would have killed us all."

[Hanns]

Couple of years ago a close buddy of mine from High School got invited to go hunting in western MN on his wife's parent's property. His brother had had shotgun in Wisconsin at the time and it was a short notice trip. Pulled my Benelli out of the closet and loaned it to him for the week. He bagged a number of ringtails with it and returned in cleaner than I had lent it to him. Didn't notice the $40 he slipped in the case until the next time I used it but that was an unexpected surprise that wasn't really needed. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

Have had a few female friends over the years break up with a-holes, in some cases it was violent. None of them asked for a gun but I've spent a few nights crashing on someone's couch with a loaded pistol just in case. If they knew enough about firearms to safely use one I'd have loaned them one but must barely know which end is the pointy one. I've rectified that issue with a number of them, they've had a grand time at the range.

[20mm]

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