Boston Herald: "Fisherman reels in handgun" Can anyone here ID it?

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Cannot tell but recently read a story of a 1911 found four feet in the ground. After long soaks in all kinds of goop he actually got the slide to operate. Barrel looked good and he got it apart for a rebuild. #s were long gone as were handles and smaller springs. Maybe there is hope for that one also.
 
Either bad reporting or the fisherman's completely clueless. From the description:

But what Alberto Pina, 37, of Roxbury reeled in was “upsetting and scary,” he said.

“I reeled in a gun,” Pina said, still hyperventilating as he described his catch more than an hour later.
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It was probably the latter
 
"I came here for some striper, not a rifle." ??? Im confused.
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No, he's confused. Very confused. No wonder Mass has so many problems with guys like that.
 
Either bad reporting or the fisherman's completely clueless.
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Both! the Herald is a rag, and Carson beach was flat dangerous when I left the area 20 yrs ago.
Probably a crime gun dumped.
 
That may be the only handgun in the Commonwealth left, notice the man's terror at finding it. Don't identify it though, because it will be assumed to be yours and you will go to jail until you can PROVE otherwise. Mass., founded on freedom maintained by oppression! BTW, the only Mr Doughnut I knew was at Rt.1 & 128, better than D&D's, I miss their plain and French Crullers with a hot cup of tea!
 
The wrong people have all the luck. Even if it would have cost a few bucks to fix up, it might still be cheaper than a new gun, and certainly a fun project.
 
He was still hyperventilating an hour after catching it?

What a wuss.

The sissification of the American male is on full display, here.

I can tell you what kind of gun it is. It's a stolen gun. Probably used by some misunderstood urban youth to gun down a rival drug dealer and three innocent bystanders and then ditched.
 
Can anyone here ID it?
It could the side arm of Wild Bill Hickok's relative, Barnacle Bill the Sailor, or his descendant. (poster ducks for cover)

Gawd. The fisherman is described as upset, scared, hyperventilating? Now if I pulled in a barnacle encrusted grenade or artillery shell, I would be upset, scared and would probably hyperventilate--those things are dangerous the more they deteriorate; but freak out over a pistol? What was he afraid of? The Boston gun police? That who ever threw it away (or lost it) would care that he found it? A gun in that condition would not be in a dangerous state, and no where I know of do the police do anything to a person reporting an abandoned gun. I don't get it.
 
This quote leaves me speechless

“To pull something like that out of the water is extremely dangerous. I didn’t want my son to see something like that, but he did. Horrible,” Pina said. “When I pulled it up, I dropped it over at the pier. I didn’t dare to touch it.”
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Also (maybe I need my tin foil hat for this) but something is fishy here. That is a top water lure. Not even sure how he could get it to the bottom to snag a gun. It seems like a possible set up, considering the fisherman is also a blogger who wrote in his blah about it
 
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It isn't a gun per se, but a replica, a fake.

Which replica/fake, I don't know, but not a real gun.
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/201...ston-harbor/7pUgOn485kZeTtrGZoUiJO/story.html

A gun in that condition would not be in a dangerous state, and no where I know of do the police do anything to a person reporting an abandoned gun. I don't get it.
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Eddie the Eagle says that if you find a gun to not touch it and leave the area and to tell an adult. The poor fisherman was an adult, so he called the cops. Many people are ignorant about many things, like the police who took some 40 minutes to decide it wasn't real. Look at the legal questions on this forum and see how many gun owners who have licenses to carry guns don't even know the gun laws they were supposed to know before they got their licenses.

The guy doesn't know guns and doesn't know the law, like many of our fellow members.
 
If you look at the combination of the Walther banner, the forward slide serrations and the safety lever on the trigger...I think it becomes pretty obvious that this is a copy of the PPQ
 
They are tactical barnacles. On the back mountains of Afghanistan a true operator needs every advantage he can get.
 
I'll tell you guys what I would have done if I'd reeled that thing it.

I'd say "Well, look at that! Who would've thought it?"

Then I'd shake it off my hook and go right back to fishing.

That gun was tossed there for a reason, it ain't none of my business and I don't care to make it mine; that would be my thought.
 
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