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

[ApacheCoTodd]

Till reading the article, I thought someone had stumbled on the "secret" location that they did a dump at back when I was stationed at Ft Devens, Mass. We watched in horror as the conveyor belt on a barge run hundreds of wonderful guns into the Atlantic for the TV crews. I remember several of us noting a notable lack of outcry from environmentalist groups over that one.

 

[WardenWolf]

In such a (lucky) situation, would it be legal to keep a found firearm?? Supposing it had no serial number>

Pretty sure not in Massachusetts, where everything is tightly regulated. Especially not Boston, which doesn't want to follow even the highly-restrictive state laws.

 

[Oic0]

Took the police 40 minutes to figure out it was a plastic toy... fail...
Does explain why it was floating high enough to be caught with that kind of bait though.

 

[guyfromohio]

Bet that has a story to tell.

 

[HorseSoldier]

I wonder if his hyperventilating anxiety attack and horror that his son's impressionable eyes might have been polluted by the sight of a weapon (or replica, as the case may be) is part one of trying to establish liability for the fishing pier's owners.

I'd almost find that concept more comforting than the guy just being that dumb.

 

[MarkDido]

From an earlier THR thread:

"Bullet found in doorway
By David Williams
LETHAL: The .22 calibre bullet found in Walthamstow High Street on a market day morning (D6W1001)

LIVE <all caps in original>ammunition has been found lying in the doorway of a busy high street shop.

The .22 calibre short round bullet was found at the entrance of the 99p Stores in Walthamstow High Street on Wednesday morning, November 1.

Haroon Khan, who has a firearms licence and is a member of a local gun club, was alarmed to discover live ammunition in a Walthamstow doorway.

The bullet, of Swiss origin, was still in its brass casing, complete with enough gunpowder for it to fire itself.

Mr Khan said that if it had been struck hard enough or exposed to heat it could have gone off.

"This sort of thing should not be lying around. It was live, primed and active," he said. "But rather me pick it up than a little kid.

"How can you feel safe when you are finding things like this on the street?

"To get hold of one of these is not easy. You have to go through a scrutinised search, you need a licence and you have to belong to a club."

Ammunition of this kind would ordinarily be used in a small handgun or pistol, and both can be owned legally under licence.

But to leave strictly controlled goods out in the street would be enough for a firearms licence to be revoked.

The bullet has been examined at a Metropolitan Police laboratory and details about it kept for future reference.

A police spokesman said: "Recovering firearms and ammunition is a priority for the police. We take the same view of ammunition as we do of a gun.

"If it goes bang, it is still lethal."

Police are treating the unattended ammunition as a crime. Mr Khan alerted them at 10.16am, and they arrived at his shop to pick up the bullet at 11.32am."

 

[sanforb]

All I ever catch is stupid fish.

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[MICHAEL T]

“I reeled in a gun,” Pina said, still hyperventilating as he described his catch

Well if we ever have another revolution I guess we can forget about Mass.
Think if that been attitude on the green of Lexington that april morning

 

[Pilot]

Lots of bed wetters now in Mass, and the Northeast. A far cry from Lexington Green.

 

[MICHAEL T]

Remember Romney pass a lot of this when gov. But now he for the 2nd unless it's one of thoese evil black rifles That no citizen has a need for.

Remember that as we vote for him. against the other dud

 

[JMACDONALD]

Carson Beach is next to BaySide Expo Center and Harbor Point Housing......more suprised it was fake then real. Looks like a P22 or PK380 to me.

 

[Creature]

9mmepiphany wrote: 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

Except that I see a a safety lever under the rear sight.

That ...and the wedge shaped front sight makes me believe it is a copy of the Walther P22. However the slide release and the safety lever are both oddly shaped for a genuine P22.

 

[herkyguy]

It's an AK. no doubt about it.......

 

[Queen_of_Thunder]

Can you say setup. How did that" gun "get on that lure.

 

[roadchoad]

The guy rebuffed some of the false quotations the article attributed to him here: http://www.forcv.com/featured-news/4822-a-gun-fishing-day

 

[josiewales]

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.”

Good Grief! Guess where he lives! I think the would be awesome!

 

[josiewales]

On the other hand, I wasn't scared for finding an apparently non-working gun. However, as a parent, I was upset indeed for the fact that my 3 year-old son was exposed to a gun when he was supposed to just be playing and having fun out there like any other child.

And thats also pretty sad!^^

 

[Agsalaska]

Ha. The guy has a Texas Longhorn hat on. Why does that not surprise me.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Ha. The guy has a Texas Longhorn hat on. Why does that not surprise me.

Because, if he was an aggie he would or run away screaming, and joined another conference.

 

[keithbayne]

i dont know about the gun but the fisherman sounds like a true <edit> o my gosh,a gun,what ever shall id o

 

[herkyguy]

Disturbing how far the first reporter went in trying to make this story more of a headline. That's a shame.

 

[chicharrones]

Catch and release would have prevented this.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

I'd do some more fishing around there. Might be a treasure trove. You know there's lots of those "boating accidents" resulting in the complete loss of someone's arms collection...

Woody

 

[rduchateau2954]

What a joke. I can't stop shaking my head.

I don't buy the "it's just a fake" statement. Makes me think a ballistics test matched it to a crime and the fuzz don't want to tip off whoever dumped it.

That said I have always wanted to dive under the bridges on the fox river and see what was down there. I always wondered what the dredging crews found when they were digging up the riverbed.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Except that I see a a safety lever under the rear sight.

That ...and the wedge shaped front sight makes me believe it is a copy of the Walther P22. However the slide release and the safety lever are both oddly shaped for a genuine P22.

I believe that with the seemingly oversized bore, that it may be an Airsoft-type air gun, so close, but not an exact match for the Walther P22, but what it is intended to look like. Good ID.