Have you ever FOUND a gun?

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Never found a gun but...

Things were a bit slow when I first launched my business. A client of mine that bought, fixed up and sold foreclosure homes assented when I asked if I could do a "clean out" of a recently bought foreclosure to make some extra cash.
As I suspected, the prior owners departed in a hurry, leaving their stuff behind.
It was odd, eerie and kinda cool to look over this stuff, even as I was dragging it out to the curb for bulk pickup. Some of the finds were interesting.
I think at least one of the residents was in law enforcement, possibly corrections, because there were some old tattered blue uniforms still hanging up in a closet.
I found a few rounds of loose .38 Special ammo in a drawer, which I kept.
Also found a machete or two - I had never wielded one before and I understood immediately why they work so well as tools and weapons.
The piece de resistance might have been the huge cider jug of clear liquid labeled "nitric acid." Luckily right around the time I did this work, my county Gov't had a "household clean up day" in which people could bring anything hazardous to be disposed of properly. So I took the opportunity to ditch the jug and breathed a lot easier once I left the temporary dumpsite.
 
My sister lived the last years of her life in NYC where she died of cancer a few years back. She was very anti-gun. Voted for Ferraro, Hillary or Shumer, whichever Senate district she lived in.

When I was up there cleaning out her car I found a toy pistol under the driver's seat. I was very surprised it was there given her attitudes about guns. She was into theater so perhaps it was a prop from some play. The problem with that idea is that the plastic gun was red and yellow so it could not possibly be mistaken for a real gun.

Like an idiot, wit the doors and windows closed, I pulled the trigger and it let off a real loud bang! It was a cap pistol!

I can't help wondering if she kept in her car to use to scare off muggers of such. I never had the chance to ask her.
 
Found a Glock once. Took my son to the range at the local WMA one day. The range was empty (sweet!) and we pulled in. Sitting on one of the tables where we pulled in was an ammo box. Curious I opened it up to check it out, there was a holstered Glock, ammo, and cleaning supplies. Figured someone must have left it. Thought I'd drop it off with the ranger when we left, but it just kept nagging at me. Went through the box better and found a name and phone number. Was in process of dialing when a car pulls up in a hurry. Kid jumped out and asked if we found a gun. He had dad's pistol and rifle out shooting and had left them. He was sweating bullets and extremely glad I had found it.

Robert
 
Someone "FOUND" a gun in my car when they stole it!! The car that is! A nice Sig P220 back in the early 90's. Absolutely felt violated!!! Took months to get over that one!
 
I came close once.

My son and I went to buy his first car. We test drove it, went over it top to bottom, test drove it again, haggled, and agreed on a price. We went to the bank for the cash while the owner pulled all his stuff out of it. We came back, handed over the money, did the title paperwork, pulled out of the driveway and turned left instead of right. Did a U turn and as we went by his place he flagged us down and said he had forgotten something in the trunk. He got in there, reached behind the trim and pulled out a little pocket .380 in a holster, said he had forgotten all about it until he saw us turning around when it popped into his head for some reason. :mad:

My sister found one in Lake Tahoe, California. Yes, IN the lake. She was swimming and kept seeing something purple on the bottom in 10-12' of water. Curious, she dived down and picked it up off the bottom. It was heavy, she brought it to shore, and found a stainless Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum inside a Crown Royal bag.

They turned it over to a sheriff's deputy who said they could get it back if it wasn't claimed or connected to a crime in a year. That was three years ago and they're still trying to get it back.
 
I found an old Winchester pump .22, octagon barrel, cleaning out an old barn back in the early 60's. It had probably laying in the manure there for 40 years or more. Unfortuately it was not salvagable as a firearm.
 
once. when i was 16 my grandma bought me me first car. a 1965 mustang coupe, in original rust color! i found a bryco 9mm under the back seat. So i had one of my "friends" buy some 9mm ammo and guess what? it wouldn't feed at all! it wound up at the bottom of a pond. i read some years later that those pistols took 9x19 ammo? shoulda kept it.....
 
Back in 72,My old man bought a bar/dancehall out in the country outside of Green Bay.In the proccesse of cleaning it out,I found a case of very old whisky.Old as in before prohibition.Under the case was a smaller wood box,With a colt 1911 goverment in it.Luckiest 13 year in the world.Probably explains My obsessive passion for the damn things.
 
Yes, I have found a gun. It was a stainless steel S&W pistol, found at the bottom of Saguaro Lake, near Phoenix. Turned it into the MCSO, and never saw it again. They said they lost it.
 
Found gun

Yup, well before I could keep it.

I kicked it while crossing a vacant lot. It was a rusty revolver with an octagonal barrel. Another kid took it from me and threw it back into the lot.

It was almost seventy-five years before I held a gun in my hand again.
 
A friend and I were grouse hunting on foot one fine day 20 years ago.We spotted a gun case lying under a small pine tree.In it,was a pristine marlin 22 bolt action,with the tube magazine,missing the follower for the tube.I called a friends dad,a deputy sheriff,and it was indeed stolen,from a old girl friends home.Someone had stolen a dozen or so guns among other things from them,the marlin was the only thing recovered.
 
yes, once i found an old double barrel shotgun made in 1898 with a two digit serial number in my attic.
 
I'm not calling anyone a liar, but when I was in 1st grade, I went through a short period of time where I "found" lots of cool stuff in the garbage can. After a parentally administered butt-whooping, I never been so lucky, since. :)
 
Not exactly FINDING a gun...

A friend owed my brother about $70, but he kept putting my brother off. Finally he said to my brother, "I've got a rifle up in the attic that you can have, if you call it even." He gave my brother a guncky old rifle in a cardboard box. My brother asked me what it was. It was a Springfield 1903A3 in cosmoline. Sucker looked brand new, but of course, it could have seen some use. For a while, my brother wanted to have a scope mounted on it, but I talked him out of that. Now if I could just talk him into selling it to me.

- - - Yoda
 
When I was a kid my dad found one while plowing up a new field. It was very old and the stock was rotted away. You couldn't shoot it or anything but it was a gun. Some kind of old lever action. We just put it up on the barn, you know as one of those random decorative things that barns seem to attract.
 
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Over the years, dozens at work, all tagged, and I'm pretty sure all later destroyed. Some nice, mostly junk..

Only one that I could keep, and old 12GA Double, with exposed hammers, under the porch of a Great Uncles house before it was torn down.. Unfortunately it was pretty far gone, badly rusted, stock split.. Just an old wall hanger now.. I gave it to my dad, who gave it to another uncle... Sent it back to that end of the Family...
 
I never found a gun, but from what I am reading here, if I ever do and give it to the cops, regardless of the circumstances that's the last I'm ever going to see of it. Figures.
 
No, I have never found a gun.

My dad found one years and years ago (before I was born) out in the woods while 'hunting' mushrooms, though.
 
Found some in a guy's yard in Afghanistan. a Lee Enfield No.4 Mk.1 that had the U.S. Property markings ground off, a couple of Russian AK-47's (even one original slab-side mag) that were probably from the early 50's, A single-shot 12 gauge with a janckity folding stock and the only markings were "belgium steel" on the barrel, as well as a little star model f .22 pistol.

Did some research on the Star, and it turns out it was a special model for export to the U.S. "starlet" i think was the name of the model. And then I got to learn all about how Savage made enfields for the brits before our official involvement in WWII under the lend-lease agreement.

Maybe it was because I was able to tell my unit what we had, but almost as soon as we got back they sent me to Foreign Weapons Instructor course : )
 
I've found a lot - mostly AK's, some SKS's, a Walther PPK, couple of wheel mounted 51 cal machine guns.... all in a few hootches in Nam. (the Walther was being carried on the hootch owner's side - he was nice enough to relinquish it to me - and no - I didn't harm him).
 
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