boy this was exciting!

This was not really accessible all tucked away in that storage. Wonder what the house looked like.

Til death do us part I would suspect.

Guessing that some storage outfits don't mind what their unit renters store in the lockers...
Do know of 1 storage outfit owner who doesn't allow guns/ammo/CO2 cylinders (12-gm)- was on the application...

CapnMac said:

Wonder what the house looked like.

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Nice and neat without a gun in sight.

All that Garand ammo... yea I would kept that Garand, the M1A, the FAL, and the 45-70 Lever and sold the rest

I was kind of amazed that the guy had enough common sense for muzzle control/clearing yet didn't really have a clue about most of the ammo (what it was for, etc.).

The "Storage War" shows on TV are all set ups. I wonder if this video is too.

What State was this in??

Gee, wonder if the ATF came knocking on his door??

I have a friend that buys lots of storage lockers, has for 40+ years. He hates "Storage Wars", driving up prices.
He says 19 of 20 lockers he buys has pork in it. Most of it "homemade". 1 of 50 will have something of value, mostly appliances, keeps his resell shop stocked. He says he has NEVER found a firearm, much less multiples. It could happen, but I could win the lottery, also.
Best he ever done, unit was opened, piled with clothes. Bought it for $100. Pulled clothes out and found a '67 Mustang, a plain Jane with 30k miles. Put in battery and gas, started up and drove it home.

I always thought you had to report any firearms to the local Police.

So many of these shows are fake but the fact that the guy's guns were stored loaded makes me think this was real. lol.


I wonder how they ended up in their?


Could be a relative passed and someone put all of their stuff in there to go through later and never checked.



I remember storing my dad's guns and ammo before we moved him into a nursing home and I remember it being loaded up in plastic totes just like those. lol.

A buddy of mine got into buying those storage units for a bit. His in-laws were big into the buy-sell-trade-flea market/auction/yard sale stuff.
My friend did end up with a few cheapie guns here and there. He used to call me up for info when he ran into them but he quit buying because he never saw any real profit.

Side note* I had another acquaintance that called a few times when people dropped off boxes at Goodwill and guns were found. They had to be turned in to police per company policy, so I told her I didn't wanna hear about it anymore since I couldn't buy them anyway. I think she just wanted attention.

Aim1 said:

Could be a relative passed and someone put all of their stuff in there to go through later and never checked.

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This is my 80% guess.
[Relative] was doing poorly, and went into [long-term care], which later became [hospice].
Other relatives just packed stuff up "for now" and left it in [relative's] storage locker. A d pretty recently, given the condition of things not in climate controlled storage.

My 20% guess is that this was the storage for a "fence" who stopped paying storage rent after being sent off to gaol.

The part of me that feels it's fake is because the ammo is in too nice of condition to have been in a storage unit for long enough time.

CapnMac said:

This is my 80% guess.
[Relative] was doing poorly, and went into [long-term care], which later became [hospice].
Other relatives just packed stuff up "for now" and left it in [relative's] storage locker. A d pretty recently, given the condition of things not in climate controlled storage.

My 20% guess is that this was the storage for a "fence" who stopped paying storage rent after being sent off to gaol.

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If this is real then I'd agree, it was all packed in there recently (within the past 5 years or so) and was placed in there to get the guns out of whatever living situation the owners were. Probably moved to a hospital or nursing home or something. His family could've been non-gun people, which explains why they'd move it all into such storage in the first place. The owner may or may not be dead yet, family members can be pretty neglectful about storage units (true story)

The gun tastes the guy did have, wouldn't be surprised if he or she would be registered on a forum such as this one.

EDIT: Yeah if this was real the owner was definitely serious into the hobby, much like all of us here. Every mag loaded, the rifle rests, range bag being ready to go, etc.
Big shame this happened to his stuff but it could technically happen to any of us as well.
I really wanna know what forum he was on if he was registered to one.

I bought a number of storage lots and closed pallets out on the west coast, back when I had nothing else going on.
I never found so much as a single round of ammo, but I always made a fair amount of cash on my purchases.
The only guns that I bought at auction were as single items - a Gew. 98 and a 1903 Springfield at a farm auction for $12.50 each.

Storage place I currently use does not allow firearms. Don't remember if ammo is also verboten.

That said, I could not believe I sat here and watched the entire video, it really did turn out to be exciting.

CapnMac said:

This is my 80% guess.
[Relative] was doing poorly, and went into [long-term care], which later became [hospice].
Other relatives just packed stuff up "for now" and left it in [relative's] storage locker. A d pretty recently, given the condition of things not in climate controlled storage.

My 20% guess is that this was the storage for a "fence" who stopped paying storage rent after being sent off to gaol.

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Some storage places are climate controlled now. The one I currently use is not climate controlled but it does have cooling. Kinda have to in AZ.

I can't bring my self to watch the video, but my dad worked for a well known gun shop here and would not believe the amount of women that came in. Most just wanted the guns gone and didn't want a dime, of course they were payed fare prices.

old lady new shooter said:

Some storage places are climate controlled now.

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There's always been climate controlled and not controlled self storage.

The non-controlled newer storage often falls under obscure Code requirement for roof insulation, but that's not the same as climate controlled.

That unit was not climate controlled. Inside of it was whatever temperature the outside was. Ditto humidity.

So, all the "stuff" was probably not out there much more than a year or so--it was not covered in dust the way such places do. (But, that could have been an artifact of the reality tv "stage dressing" -- all the contents were cleaned and dusted before the "stars" showed up.)