HELP is there really a time limit and does it still stand even though i wasn't notified?

Question

my gun was reported stolen in the ncic but a oklahoma city judge had it distroyed without notifying me now there saying that they will not pay me back because of a one year time limit but i wasn't notified that they even had my gun

Answer 1

First...yes there is a time limit!

Second...you will NOT be able to sue anybody as long as "notification" was made which I'm sure it was.

You had a gun stolen of which the owner may not have been known at the time the judge made his decision to condemn the property.

Law enforcement holding the weapon for the court would have made notification through a last known owner and through the public media such as a newspaper.

If they did their job correctly, I'm sure they will have included a copy of the public notification. Without receiving any calls from the last known owner, the property would have been condemned by court order.

Often times people move without leaving forwarding information. That makes it difficult to make a "direct" notification which you think is required, however, it is not!

When an owner fails to come forward ... the property is then considered "abandoned" and condemned.

The only other consideration I see is if the weapon, entered into NCIC as you state, was recovered and the agency failed to identify a KNOWN owner through the initial complaint...then you may be able to regain payment for the property....but I think your chances are slim!

Answer 2

sue those people, make it known that you did not have the information to retrieve your gun, and that they were in the wrong when they destroyed it. That is what I'd do if some bozo stole my gun and then my prized possession got destroyed, Id be ticked off.