On Wednesday night at rehearsal, I had taken my starter pistol (a .22 with a closed barrel) for the actress to use in her final scene. I didn't have any blanks with me or in the pistol.
After rehearsal, I thought she put it back in its box on the table. When everyone was gone, I picked up the box to take the gun back home - and the box was empty. I looked around a bit, but I didn't see it.
I messaged her when I got home, she said she had put it on the prop table with the glasses and bottles. The prop table is behind all the furniture we have to move back against the wall after every rehearsal.
The next day - after the middle school group theatre workshop....the gun was missing.....it's gone. Some kid took it.... We looked all over last night. GONE.
So we have a mystery. I would say it is my fault for not MAKING her hand me the pistol when she was done with it. Nobody can be hurt with it, unless they steal some .22 blanks and it misfires - which it will do if it's not cleaned properly after being used.
So....there you are....brats. We had been missing books of matches as well, but I figured some high school smoker had taken them, and I put them in a new place.