Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
Assuming you're in a state whose gun licensing laws, and your own state of licensing, permit you to legally possess that gun, of course. I'm largely unfamiliar with those laws, but I've read enough threads here regarding New York's incredibly restrictive laws to avoid claiming an abandoned weapon unless I knew for sure that I wouldn't get arrested three steps outside of the airport ...
Where I live, that would not be a problem. Getting out of the airport might be. It is the rare airport where the carry on is checked on the way out. I have a CWP. Once I am off airport grounds. No problem. There is a huge problem if I am checked and the gun is traced. For that reason, it could never be sold, given away, or displayed. Still works fine for its intended purpose.
All that said, I would never take the risk. My post above was an attempt at humor. Unless it was a really nice Sig or maybe a Single Stack Springfield .45. Ok, not then either, but more tempting.