Hey all. My mom and dad live in Pensacola and regularly travel over to New Orleans for week long vacations. My dad carries a Maxpedition sling bag that he keeps his P30L in while traveling. He got his FL CCP when he and my mom retired and began traveling a lot.

I just got an e-mail from him that he got a call from NOPD that they had his handgun. My dad left his bag at the hotel and I'm assuming after they rummaged through it and found the handgun the hotel called the police and turned it over to them. I'm still gathering information, but what he's told me is that for him to get the pistol back from the department he has to pass a background check and provide proof of ownership. He's said they're already running a background check on him but he doesn't have any proof of ownership. He purchased the pistol over 10 years ago and the shop he purchased it from went out of business a few years back. He also mentioned something about their records only being maintained for 7 years anyway, which I don't entirely believe.

At this point he's given up and is ready to just let it sit in a property locker which is not good enough for me. There has to be a solution to this as I'm sure there are incidents like this fairly regularly.

I'm going to be e-mailing him to get as much information as possible out of him about what he was told so I can try to help him out. I'll also be getting the department number so I can call down and see what information I can get straight from them.

If anyone has any suggestions/insights, I'd appreciate it.