My friend, who we will call B, put his little NAA 22mag revolver in its holster in his boot as we leave the motel. We take a ride from Kerrville to Luckenbach. We walk around there for bout an hr. As we load up to ride back to the motel, he digs his smokes out of his boot. His pistol is GONE!!
We make great time gettin back to the room to make sure he had not left it there. It was no where to be found. He goes to the front desk to see if it had been found. Indeed it had, by the front clerk in the parking lot. He turned it in the the Police.
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The LEOs were very cool about it and returned it to him.
They did have to call the property room officer to see if he would come back down there release it. To our amazement he did....it was about 8:00 at this time. They said it would take about an hr for him to return and they would call us.
They called and when we got back down there the Officer that took the report met us outside with the gun and signed it over to B after looking at his DL.
NOW...lets back up to the front desk clerk...who is a grown man about 35 yrs old......
According to the clerk himself....
He was in the parkinglot picking up trash. He found the pistol right where B's bike was parked. He picks it up...looks at it...Thinks its a TOY....cocks the hammer and PULLS the TRIGGER...
needless to say, it goes BANG....he and my friend are VERY lucky noone got hurt with all of the many possibilities that could have happened.
