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now this is strange.. why everyone assumes from the get-go the gun is hot, used in a crime, was ditched with cops hot on the carrier's tail.....
seems far more likely to me that someone had it in their car and somehow it "escaped" and ended up on the ground. My guess is it is a perfectly lawfully owned and carried weapon that happened to go astray due to negligence on the part of its owner.
I'd try the OSP hot gun line, and see if its stolen. If so, they'll tell you, and send someone to immediately pick it up. Your story of how and where found will perhaps help them figure out some missing details.
If it doesn't come back hot, maybe figure out some ways of trying to locate the owner... notes posted at major gun stores, on here, wherever.
I'd say you did the best thing, given its location, time of day, who else was around..... keeping it from getting found by any of the smaller set knocking about the park. Hey, it could well have been someone at the park, loaded down with stuff to carry for their barbecue, dropped it on accident. My bet is it is simply lost by its rightful and lawful owner. Nothing foul or nefarious about it at all. Any punk or gangbanger running from a cop wanting to ditch his heater would NOT set it down carefully in the car park..... any marks from sliding or smacking the macadam? Or is it clean....? No, the punk would fling it some ways away from him, likely into some bushes or a pond/stream/river. Off an embankment, somewhere the coppers would not quickly find it. Certainly not in the car park, If the cops were hot on his tail and thought he'd a gun in possession, they would NOT stop looking until found. Certainly they would still have been at the park, likely have the whole place shut down and evacuated. You all know how overreactive they get whenever there's a GUN involved..... the place would be crawling with the guys, public barred from the entire area. Certainly NO kids anywhere near. Oh, no, can't EVER have any of THEM about when there may be contact (or even a sighting) of a gun, now. Not THESE days.
While it may be possible it was just lost/misplaced by the legal owner, I would say it is far more likely that it was ditched there by a criminal. Maybe this is naive, but I would hope that the vast majority of legal gun owners would be more responsible with their firearms than to lose one in a parking lot.
Not all criminals that ditch evidence wait until the police are chasing them. Some might see a police officer, and ditch what they have under a car or bush with the intention of coming back to pick it up later when the police are gone. I did this once as a kid with a pack of cigarettes, so I don't think it's unreasonable to think that a criminal could do likewise with drugs or a gun.
The fact is that I have no way of knowing how the gun got there. In my opinion it is better to err on the side of caution. If it was just lost then presumably the owner will have reported it lost or stolen to the police and they can still return it to the rightful owner without me having to touch it.