"The Tragic Boating Accident"

[Southern Rebel]

Probably not, but it sure beats the heck out of pleading "No! Please! You can't take my babies! - they're mine, all mine!"

 

[moooose102]

what do you mean, "in case the man is watching"? you and i both know he is, and most of us are probably on some fbi, cia, or homeland security list somewhere. they already have your name, address, list of relatives, everytihing excpet your dna, and they might have that.

 

[#shooter]

Stolen by Pirates

All mine were stolen by Pirates, they didn't have time to sink.

 

[TechBrute]

Do any of you seriously believe that if push comes toshove that posting that you have lost all your guns will really help you out?

I'm thinking the meaning of the word "joke" might be lost on this one...

 

[jnyork]

Sure had a hell of a time getting the gun safe into the canoe.

 

[everallm]

Unfortunately this does actually happen from time to time (puts hand up)

I was on exercise in Belize many many moons doing night time beach approaches with my section in a rigid raider, full suited and booted and I was next to the gunner with the L7A2 Gympy (M240).

The boat hit some off shore debris at about 25kts and we all went flying.

Even with the flotation jacket he was going straight down so had to dump both the webbing and the iron.

By the time we got picked up we'd shifted around and they never found the kit.......Since it was my section mucho mucho paper work and blame game.

 

[Mr_Rogers]

My most prized collector firearm was found - underwater (and mud) off a dock that was being renovated.

 

[eye5600]

I always mention how I accidentally flushed my Kel-Tec P32 down the toilet at McDonald's.

As a Boy Scout, my son lost a flashlight down a latrine. It's not beyond imagining that it could happen to a carry weapon. Unlike the flashlight, you'd probably want to get it back.

 

[Readyrod]

It's the aliens, they collect guns doncha know.

 

[tulsamal]

My question is for all that post that. Do any of you seriously believe that if push comes toshove that posting that you have lost all your guns will really help you out?

It will work just as well as anything else as long as we manage to keep private sales from being tracked. As long as I can sell a gun to whomever I want for cash, I don't have to worry about registration. You could have 200 4473's out there but that doesn't "prove" you own any of them right now. If some gov't in the future came looking for them, you could say you gradually sold them one at a time for cash at gun shows. You walked around carrying the gun until somebody came up and paid you cash for it. You checked his ID but that was years ago, how could you remember his name now?!

Gregg

 

[rickomatic]

In an ironic twist I lost my boat in a gun accident.

 

[divemedic]

You guys laugh, but there is a board for SCUBA divers, and one of the members there was diving in a lake in 2003, when he found a 40mm grenade,

I found this this morning in the local lake at 12 feet. I was never in the military so I have no clue what this is fired from.
It says on it:
CTG 40MM
M407A
AMM LOT MA-52-54 (last two numbers hard to read, a guess)

then two months later, he found:

Saturday I found a red metal box (about 18”X12”X16”) in 12 foot of water in a local river. Inside, in a big trash bag, were a bunch of documents, half burned, some cut up. There were passports, Visas, Washington state drivers lic., social security cards (14 different ones, to be exact), cut up credit cards and more. There were computer disks burned and broken into pieces. The passports were issued in South Africa and it looked like the people entered the US through Canada. The names on the passports were not pronounceable by me. By the condition of the stuff I would guess it had not been in the river more than 24 hours. After a couple of calls, I was directed to the FBI. I went down to the local office with the red metal case, and of course, they took it away. They seemed VERY interested. They wanted to know exactly where I found it and exactly when. They wanted to know what I'd touched. They wanted all MY info including my social security number.
Probably nothing, but weird, huh? You just never know what you’ll find in the water. People think they can just toss it in and it’s gone forever.

 

[Restorer]

This is news coverage of the accident.

Credit to KindofBlued from the humorous posters thread. Thanks!

 

[Dravur]

Mine were all lost in a tragic gardening accident. It was terrible, really

 

[DRYHUMOR]

Somehow mine ended up in the sewage pond at a pig farm during a terrible tornado. Needless to say they melted right on the spot.

That pig crapnpee is some strong stuff.

Of course I do have the GPS coordinates, just in case someone wants do dive in and look for themselves.

 

[Phydeaux642]

most of us are probably on some fbi, cia, or homeland security list somewhere.

I'm in a state where I'm probably on a list by the Department of Public Safety because I actually think for myself and have owned firearms (they were all lost when the building I had them stored in was swallowed by a huge sink hole). Doesn't bother me at all. I do miss the guns, though.

 

[rbernie]

OPs question has been long since answered - time to put this one to bed.