What if you found a class III firearm?

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That same exact situation happened to a friend of mine about 4 years back, but he was the lawyer that got the call. It was a Browning 1919 setting on the tripod in an attic of a retired Army officer, turned state supreme court justice, way back years ago. I simply told him to call the rightful owners, the Museum at Fort Jackson. It's now on display there. Supposedly there was a footlocker or crate full of new Garands, but I never got to see them and they mysteriously dissapeared. I'm thinking this was thrown in to make the story more interesting. Hell, I didn't even want to go near the place.
 
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"Oh, no. I don't see anything!
I hear nothing, nothing!
I know nothing, NOTHING!"
 
Manedwolf said:
Actually, yes, there's a good chance you will be arrested and charged with a felony, or at least have to endure some legal hell.

BAD idea to call the po-po's, unless you want to get a closeup of your kitchen floor with someone shouting at you after they charge in your door...and then get indicted on a felony charge. I can just about guarantee that they won't hear any word after "machine gun" or "full-auto". It's an evil unregistered machine gun, it's in your possession, end of story. You're a criminal.

Yes. It is that bad.
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Yep the days of Andy and Barney using
some common sense when it comes between
the Police & the citizen who is only trying to do
the right thing, has gone out the door. In fact
I'm not sure it even existed when it comes to
an issue like this.

I will say though that Police have more than once
given me breaks on traffic tickets..:D

Wonder if a something like this qualifies for one of the
anti's gun buyback programs. Can you imagine the
looks on people's face were you to turn a Browning
MG in ? :confused:~:what:~:eek: = :evil:=;)
 
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Like I originally posted this is a total "what if" in my case.
I once did find a single shot sawed off 12 gauge in the street once (actually drove over it with my car). I called my local police district duty desk and told them I was going to bring it in. I handed it over and walked out the door. No report or anything. I guess I was lucky.
 
i am in the midst of tracking down a Class III weapon that another Class III dealer sent to the wrong address. it was supposed to go to me but went wayward.

needless to say i tracked it down. the recipient said they opened the package and freaked out and luckily, since they are law abiding, they didn't hock it. they simply didn't tell anyone about it and hoped that someone (namely ME) would go and contact them and politely ask for it.

i have contacted this Class III Dealer megastore and had a come-to-Jesus meeting with their shipping department, since this is the 2nd gun they had shipped to me that went elsewhere.

what a pain in the butt.
 
The duty to preserve the legacy of a family heirloom, and the sacrifice of that honored uncle or grandfather, would most certainly outweigh fear of possible reprisal due to unreasonable regulations.
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Legacy, sacrifice, and honor seem to be very relevant for some people who
have little of these qualities and are often highly regulated by them as a
result of their own jealousy.

Hence, in our current GWOT, we may send home a bladed weapon as long
as it's not a switchbalde (which was a lightening up of older regs according
to my Gulf War buddies). Now, it was funny that I could get rusty AK
bayonets in the sandbox for nearly the same price as a new one here in the
US. But, wow, wouldn't it have been great to pick up a handgun like the
Luger my grandpa brought back from Europe?

This is the bottom line when it comes to restricted weapons be it machine
guns, silencers, switchblades, SBRs, or a mossberg attached below an AR15:

We Americans are to be cowed through a constant state of fear. When it
isn't WMDs from some foreign entity, it's the "guns in our streets" and
the biggest boogey man for that one is the dreaded machine gun. :evil: Anyone
who wants any of these restricted individual weapons MUST be a criminal
or terrorist.:rolleyes:
 
When I lived in Florida, the Miami-Dade sherriff's office had to admit that they "lost" what they only described as a "twin fifty-caliber machine gun" from the evidence lockup. (didn't specify model) :eek:

I still wonder what the fate of THAT was...
 
what nobody else knows about, isn't going to hurt them. I'd keep it hidden, clean, and well maintained for the day it's absolutely necessary to use or the day that I don't have to worry about legal troubles because of it.
 
what nobody else knows about, isn't going to hurt them. I'd keep it hidden, clean, and well maintained for the day it's absolutely necessary to use or the day that I don't have to worry about legal troubles because of it.
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"Buckaroo, was that have a lawyer help make the unpapered machine-gun disappear or the other way around?"
 
Once a machine gun always a machine gun...unless destroyed. You pull all the internals and torch cut the receiver and the ATF will let you keep your pile of scrap metal.
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Bummer, the thought of torching a perfectly good MP40 just makes me want to projectile vomit.
 
Hide it until the next NFA amnesty or until they go door to door looking for it. Seriously, it belongs to you, so just put it back where you found it and dont tell anyone. It shouldnt end up in some ATF agent's private collection.
 
what nobody else knows about, isn't going to hurt them. I'd keep it hidden, clean, and well maintained for the day it's absolutely necessary to use or the day that I don't have to worry about legal troubles because of it.
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Big sealable mortar tube, and a huge chunk of cosmoline liquified and poured in? :)
 
Somebody posted about finding a Thompson in a wall of a house being renovated. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine when I lived in another state, maybe 15+ years ago.
His father died, and he asked me to help him go through his father's house and cart off stuff that he wasn't going to sell. In the back of his attic he had a large chest, with a padlock on it. He had to break open the padlock. Opening it, we came to a lot of WW2 stuff. His father had served in the army, and had been (IIRC) a leiutenant. We pulled out an old uniform, then a Colt 1911 wrapped up in old oilpaper of something. Under that we pulled out what was clearly a long gun, all wrapped in the same kind of oilpaper and tied off on each side with wire.
I still remember his shock opening it, and finding it was a 1928A1 Thompson.:eek: It was in OK shape, a lot of bluing on the edges was gone, and the wood a bit nicked up, but it seemed working.

To this day, I have NO IDEA what he did with it...and I don't wanna know!!!:rolleyes:
 
How could you possibly worry that something unnoticed for 60 years will be revealed to ."the authorities"?
 
Somebody posted about finding a Thompson in a wall of a house being renovated. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine when I lived in another state, maybe 15+ years ago.
His father died, and he asked me to help him go through his father's house and cart off stuff that he wasn't going to sell. In the back of his attic he had a large chest, with a padlock on it. He had to break open the padlock. Opening it, we came to a lot of WW2 stuff. His father had served in the army, and had been (IIRC) a leiutenant. We pulled out an old uniform, then a Colt 1911 wrapped up in old oilpaper of something. Under that we pulled out what was clearly a long gun, all wrapped in the same kind of oilpaper and tied off on each side with wire.
I still remember his shock opening it, and finding it was a 1928A1 Thompson. It was in OK shape, a lot of bluing on the edges was gone, and the wood a bit nicked up, but it seemed working.

To this day, I have NO IDEA what he did with it...and I don't wanna know!!!
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RKBA completely aside, the sheer historical value of a find makes it wrong to have to destory something like that. My grandfather served in the Navy in the Pacific, and if some law said I had to destory some of his possesions from the war, I don't think i could comply. It just means too much. If I did find a Thompson, I wouldn't even fire it. It would get a good and careful cleaning, and a nice Oak display case.
 
Err, yep. Correct terminology: "Title I" any firearm that isn't an NFA item, "Title II" anything that is.

NFA items: full auto (be it machine gun, SMG, machine pistol, automatic rifle), short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, silencers, destructive devices, and "any other weapons", like pen guns or "assassination devices".
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Well, technically, all firearms are NFA firearms, since NFA34 is the legislation that gave us the terms Title I and Title II. It's just that everyone, including the folks at BATFE, has more or less always meant Title II firearms when they use the term NFA weapons.
 
A guy remodeling the old family home tore down a closet his father had put up years ago and found a NIB Thompson, with three stick mags and some boxes of .45 ACP, vintage 1930's, between the studs.
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In all honesty if I found the previous home owners jerry rigged full auto Tec-9 under the workbench in the garage into the river it goes. If I were to find what was described above it would get a dummy reciever and a nice display case. As for the actual reciever, and internals.........:rolleyes: what nobody knows dont hurt em. Id stash that stuff far away though.
 
I dont think some things should be disturbed. I think it would be a defective gun since it has not gone on a homicidal rampage and killed any children. So if anything I would just put it back and save it for a time when it might be needed.
 
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