My request for legal advice

[KABillyMac]

Let me first insert alittle humor here, cause there wont be any in this post. My dog Dually and I got sprayed by a skunk last night. Yall know Dually goes everywhere I do, and let him out of the truck last night and he goes into some bushes, me in tow, and boom, he gets us sprayed by this little skunk. My office reaks right now, cause I only have two pairs of shoes, the boots on my feet, and the shoes I wear with my suit and tux. I dont think I could have pulled off levis and a tshirt this morning and a black pair of suit shoes or whatever. My house reaks, my office reaks, my dog reaks, my truck reaks, hell even my fridge reaks where I opened the door to get a beer and dually stuck his nose in to see what I was doin. Anyway..........

I get home last night, drop the truck off, wash the dog, change clothes, grab the half case out of the fridge, and he to one of the brothers house across the creek from me. 3 of them live there, and we all stayed in town for break, so Im on my way over there to watch the rest of the kent state game, and hope some women come over when downtown lets out. These 3 guys just got evicted, and we where telling a hunting story, and I remember that I let one of them borrow a gun from me when rabbit season opened in November. Not just any gun. A Remington 1100 20 gauge, engraved. Dad got it for me when I was 10. I killed my first rabbit with it. It means alot to me. Im a good person. This chainsaw wielding stuff you read on gc, thats me, but im also one of the most kind and giving people you will ever meet. I hadnt thought twice about my gun being over there. They are brothers, and brothers that I trust, alot. I knew the gun was ok. Besides, I had a arsenal at the house anyway so I hadnt need that gun for rabbitt this year.

One of the brothers that lives there is a compulsive liar. And I mean a bad bad liar. I overlook it, its just a huge personality flaw he has. I fish, hunt, and play ball with him, I just overlook the personality crap. Course I never ask him any questions so he has no reason to lie to me.

We will call him L. So as J and I are talking, (J is his roomate) I ask him where my 20 gauge is. He says he doesnt know, so we begin lookin around the house. I find the case under L's bed. Empty. Searched the house, nothing. Blood pressure went up about .5 clicks. Brother T, who lives across the creek also comes in the back door, in the midst of our search. I said, "T, you seen my 20 gauge?" He paused for a minute, and says what kind is it? I say Remington. He said did it have a white mark on the stock? I said yeah, thats it.

His response "L sold it to me"

Blood pressure up 100 clicks.

We all sit down, and T starts telling me the story. Apparantly L offered the gun to him for 150 dollars, said hed had it a long time nad needed to get rid of it. So T tells his uncle, and after assuring his uncle that its not hot, his uncle buys it. This is a 800 dollar gun yall. And im not bragging, im just saying, yall like tiffany braclets and kate spade bags, I enjoy fine firearms. We are the same people...........

The other brothers in the house are staring at me with their jaws on the ground. Waiting for me to detonate. I calmy request J to get L who is at home in the mountains, on the phone, and hand it to me. I say, "L where is my 20 gauge." He says, "its right here chainsaw" I said " you didnt sell my gun?" He said "no, i brought it home with me" I calmly said "Bring my gun when you come home saturday" and hung up. Somehow kids, I just dont think that he has my gun.......

I can get the gun back from T's uncle i think. I will take my registration, talk to him man to man, and tell him what the gun means to me, and hope he has some honor and lets me buy it back.

Question. What is the law of possesion? How many days? Whats the fastest way to get my hands on my gun registration?

Side note. L is a cousin of one of the biggest, richest, greasest lawyers in the state. This slimeball also happens to be the father of my 5 year ex. Did I ever tell yall about my nymphomaniac multi million dollar highschool caniving shit compulsive liar ex girlfriend? Probably not. My legal battle could get ugly, but dad is packin a legal team too, but if it goes into the mountains, if this does go to court, I dont think we can pull it off. If they come down here in the bottoms, we got em licked.

Any legal advice yall have is greatly appreciated. As always.