Posted: 4/24/2006 1:38:05 PM EDT
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If you found a FA weapon in your walls what would you do? Poll to come! |
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ah.. the old story of grandma cleaning out the attic years after grandpa, who was an fbi special agent, dies and finds a pristine colt thompson mg with the c clips and the original fbi case.. or perhaps the 1918 BAR that he had because he chased bonnie and clyde around oklahoma and west texas... such a nice wonderful weapon that MUST BE DESTROYED unless grandma wants to spend time in the pokee... you hear stories like this from time to time.. |
As a loyal subject of the realm, I would - if I were to find such an offensive thing - turn it in to the proper authorities. As I am sure all of you would, too. However, with my luck, I'd open the wall and it would be boobytrapped with a grenade or something and I'd blow up. |
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I'd strip it for parts and destroy the receiver. I'd be damned if I'd turn it over to the authorities unless I was a wholesale supplier of asbestos fire suits.  It's rather simple, it's illegal to own but it isn't illegal to destroy the thing.Posting about it on the internet might get a person flamed, but having it in your possession- you just might get tried by fire and lose a dog or two...  Sly |
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seriously though, does he really have to turn it in? I mean if it was legally manufacturered before 1986 or whatever time they were not allowed to make anymore and had to do lots of paperwork to own them, couldnt he be grandfathered or something. I just find it hard to accept that if he found his fathers pristine mint thompson in the wall he couldnt claim that he had been given to him by family and fill out some forms to have it registered. I head a story once where a guy went through his recently desceased grandfathers closed and found his G.I. rucksack and duffel from WWII and wound a Thompson MG. He called the army to ask if they wanted it back and they ran the serial numbers over the phone and told him something like "our records show that the weapon you speak of was lost or destroyed and we dont want it back, just keep it" anyhow i can remember where exactly i heard that from so its probably just B.S. |
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I now have a better idea... Check your local sex offender database. Find a kid toucher. Break into his car...place weapon in back seat. Drive to a payphone, call police, mention a suspicious item in the back seat of a car that you saw when walking your dog, then get the hell away from the payphone. Hilarity ensues.
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