It gets worse. The California state AG's office has the authority over the return of all stolen guns statewide, and they require the gun owner to apply to get recovered guns back. Part of that application is providing the police report of both the theft and the recovery..........as if the AG's office can't just punch it up on their computer. I have the reports (two) on theft, but have been held with no info whatsoever on the recovery(s?) in one city. Frankly, I bet the evidence locker employee probably broke protocol in phoning me to inform me of the recovery.