Tribal
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Have you never played Wolfenstein, Doom, Halo, or Half-Life?
Unfreakinbuleeeevable!!!
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Have you never played Wolfenstein, Doom, Halo, or Half-Life?
wyocarp
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Well, Noid, we are almost neighbors. Rock River is pretty near the heart of Nowhere, Wyoming. 30 miles from there is nowhere. There aren't a lot criminals driving around out there because it would be hard to be a criminal where the only thing you can kill or steal is sagebrush. Someone lost the pistol and would be forever grateful to have it returned.
Myles
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Finders, keepers.
jjohnson
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It's Mine!
I wondered where I'd left that. Can you send it home, please? I'll pay postage.
I wondered where I'd left that. Can you send it home, please? I'll pay postage.
M14/11B
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I would try to find the owner, by running the SN by the cops. Would'nt you like to get your gun back if you lost it accidentally? Us gun guys generally are a law-abiding lot who look out for each other anyhow.
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CowardRubi06
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In tuscaloosa.....I can actually picture these things occuring. The finding of the PO's guns I bet was priceless.
"registered" might have been the term.
I understood that every gun has a paper trail and can be tracked to the gun shop that made the initial sale. They have records (at least for a time period) showing who purchased the firearm.
I hope I never lose a firearm and I hope one is never stolen. If someone were to find it, it would be really nice if they took efforts to find the rightful owner.
I believe that many states are like NC and have statutes on the books that found property should be turned over in the hope the owner can be found.
'Finders keepers, looser weepers' is not a legal concept, and I my mind, it is not an ethical approach.
SR;
What makes you think every gun ever made has only had one owner? Once the gun is passed on to the second owner...no more paper trail.
Well, unless you sell your firearms through an FFL. But I've never done that, and most people don't. For the most part, there's no records of who owns it anymore than there are records of who owns a cordless drill. So why hand it over to the cops?
No point in letting a good firearm go to waste by letting some cops confiscate it. That's how I see it.
What makes you think every gun ever made has only had one owner? Once the gun is passed on to the second owner...no more paper trail.
Well, unless you sell your firearms through an FFL. But I've never done that, and most people don't. For the most part, there's no records of who owns it anymore than there are records of who owns a cordless drill. So why hand it over to the cops?
No point in letting a good firearm go to waste by letting some cops confiscate it. That's how I see it.
theotherwaldo
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Hey, CowardRubi06! Give it a shot - check the old lock face down at the foot of McCorvey Drive, between the University and the river!
I was always finding stuff there. Just watch out for all those old tow cables that are laying on the bottom. Sometimes the propwash from the tow boats will dig them up and the magnets really grab onto them. If you finally get the magnets loose they'll be covered in needle-sharp rusty chunks of cable.
It's fun, but you've been warned - get a tetanus shot first!
I was always finding stuff there. Just watch out for all those old tow cables that are laying on the bottom. Sometimes the propwash from the tow boats will dig them up and the magnets really grab onto them. If you finally get the magnets loose they'll be covered in needle-sharp rusty chunks of cable.
It's fun, but you've been warned - get a tetanus shot first!
If I found this revolver 30 miles outside of Rock River, WY, I would try to find the owner by running the SN by the local gunshop (or gunshops, if there are more than one out there ). It's absurdly unlikely that it's a hot gun with Rock River crip or blood bodies on it, but it's a nice thing to try to return lost wallets, ubertis, etc.
). It's absurdly unlikely that it's a hot gun with Rock River crip or blood bodies on it, but it's a nice thing to try to return lost wallets, ubertis, etc.phoglund
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Ye Gods! Here is the lesson: If ya find something, don't post your find on the internet.
ArchAngelCD
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Glenn Bartley has said exactly what I was thinking....
theotherwaldo
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Blair's bodyguard loses a Glock in the john:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,416461,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,416461,00.html
The smart thing to do is talk to the Albany Count Sheriff. Your friend probably knows him anyway. Is there still a deputy in Rock River or has the WHP taken over for him? Anyway, talk to him, give him the serial number, not the gun, and ask him to run the thing on NCIC for lost, stolen or whatever. He will know in two minutes if anyone has reported it lost, etc. Personally, I think it was probably lost by a snowmobile driver (protected in a bag) last winter who has given it up for lost.
Chuck Spears
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I would have just left it alone. I'm not messing with Anton Chigurh and some No Country For Old Men stuff.
KiltedClaymore
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1) who leaves a stolen gun in the middle of no-where?
2)what criminal uses a Uberti SAA with a 7 inch barrel? or even knows what .45LC is...
i say keep it. some folks have all the luck.
2)what criminal uses a Uberti SAA with a 7 inch barrel? or even knows what .45LC is...
i say keep it. some folks have all the luck.
I have a ranch at Rock River. Noid knows it well. We both know that it is wide open and wild country. There are hundreds of antelope, prairie dog, deer, and coyote hunters all over that country every year.
They walk, they ride dirt bikes, ATV's, and snow mobiles, and they lose things all the time. I fortunately haven't lost a fire arm yet, but I know of several that have.
Those who have been there know that the odds of ever finding lost items is about hopeless.
Hell, we lose 5-6 head of 800 pound cattle each year. Some are probably rustled but many die and are eaten by coyotes before we know they are gone.
So finding a gun out there isn't that unusual.
Finding one in a functioning condition is unusual.
I am sure Noid and his friend will check with the landowners in the area to see if some hunter left word of his loss, but in most cases hunters don't ever check in with the landowners or get permission to hunt, so reporting the loss would be an admission of trespassing. The chances of the gun ever being identified are slim.
They walk, they ride dirt bikes, ATV's, and snow mobiles, and they lose things all the time. I fortunately haven't lost a fire arm yet, but I know of several that have.
Those who have been there know that the odds of ever finding lost items is about hopeless.
Hell, we lose 5-6 head of 800 pound cattle each year. Some are probably rustled but many die and are eaten by coyotes before we know they are gone.
So finding a gun out there isn't that unusual.
Finding one in a functioning condition is unusual.
I am sure Noid and his friend will check with the landowners in the area to see if some hunter left word of his loss, but in most cases hunters don't ever check in with the landowners or get permission to hunt, so reporting the loss would be an admission of trespassing. The chances of the gun ever being identified are slim.
Virginian
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Tell me more about this free gun faerie. This sounds like someone whose friendship I need to cultivate.
Drgong
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heck, I would be happy to find the free AMMO faerie...
mgregg85
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Can someone post that image of R. Lee Ermey saying 'you forgot to post pictures of your new weapon scumbag!!!" i want to save that thing.
theNoid
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Ok ok ok, he did call the sheriff and according to them there is no reports/no problems with the gun according to them. I have no pictures of the gun because I have not been back out there as of yet...sorry...they will come eventually.
ziggy222 said:
No sir mr. ziggy222, it has not been. And for that matter, if you are so closeminded to have based your opinion about me and my trustworthiness on this little story of my friend finding a gun in the middle of the prairie...then I have no aspirations to meet you anytime soon, so no worries bro'.
Noidster
ziggy222 said:
No sir mr. ziggy222, it has not been. And for that matter, if you are so closeminded to have based your opinion about me and my trustworthiness on this little story of my friend finding a gun in the middle of the prairie...then I have no aspirations to meet you anytime soon, so no worries bro'.
Noidster
The Free Gun Faerie is a mythical being akin to the Tooth Fairy except this one is an adult, who usually looks like your wife or girlfriend if only because she possesses them for a short while while doing the Free Gun Faerie thing. She leaves presents like guns for you at appropriate times of the year like on Christmas, your birthday, BAG day, your anniverssary, and so forth just to say she loves you because you are a real man and a gun guy. Once uppn a time I thought my wife gave me a gift certificate to buy a gun. Well I thought it was my wife back then, but when I gave it more thought I figured it must have been the Free Gun Faerie because my wife had never before, and has never again, done that. If I remember right I had slept the night before with a copy of The American Rifleman under my pillow, the next day was my birthday, and there was this gift certificate for the local gun shop in a card signed by my wife.
I wish she would come by again, but nothing I do seems to bring her back to me. I suppose she is kept busy by all the rest of you.
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