PANAMA CITY — There are some things that it's okay to lose.

A gun is not one of those things.

A local man contacted the Bay County Sheriff's Department over the weekend to report his gun missing. He has a concealed carry permit, he told deputies, and he usually carries his .22 caliber mini handgun in his front pants pocket.

Two weeks ago, though, he noticed at the end of the day that his handgun — kept in the front pocket of his pants — had gone missing at some point during the day without him noticing.

He had gone to "numerous businesses" that day, including a Sam's Club, where he thought he may have reached into his pocked to retrieved his keys and caused his handgun to fall out of his pocket. He checked all of the areas he could think, he told deputies, but he "believes someone may have picked the gun up."

The deputy ran the gun through their system, but it had not been reported as recovered.

A copy of the report was entered into their database as a lost firearm.