Posted on 12/13/2014 8:16:20 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
This morning my Daughter and her friend were jogging on the bridge today. They came across a 45 caliber Glock in the grass by the sidewalk. It appeared someone tried to toss the gun from a moving car into the marsh, but missed.
She saw a policeman writing a traffic ticket and told him what she saw. He asked her to wait while he finished his business. Then he came and interviewed the girls and called the investigators to treat the gun as a crime scene.
Rackem’
This. You have no idea what trail of police ballistic records this weapon is dragging around in its wake.
When my dad died, he had three handguns in his condo in Arizona which I had to have shipped to me here in Michigan. The transaction was handled by so called friends of my parents that lived in Lake Havasu.
Keep in mind, my dad was a retired Detroit cop and when it came to firearms he played by the book. I went thru his paperwork here and discovered the receipt from a gun store in Lake Havasu where he had purchased a .32cal Walther PPK back in 1992. That gun was not amongst the three that were sent to me, there is no paperwork showing that he had brought it to Michigan and registered it here with the local law enforcement and there is no paperwork indicating that he had transferred ownership of the gun to another person.
That leads me to believe that "the friends" stole it since my sisters saw evidence in "the friends" house of a wall hanging they had purchased for my parents and should have been on the wall in their condo but was gone.
I'm inclined to post that gun on that website you provided......What are your thoughts?
She did the right thing. If it helps solve a crime or puts a perp or murderer away then sleep well.
I found a pistol once in a hidden campsite in some woods in Dallas, that looked like no one had been around for at least a week.
There was also a letter there from the guy to his out of state father, describing how the police mistakenly thought that he was wanted for some shootings of store clerks in Dallas. The patrol cop that came to my house to collect the pistol had zero interest in the letter or where the camp site was, all he wanted was that pistol.
I never could get the cop interested in the bigger picture, and I think to him the pistol was just a free gun for his collection, or a drop pistol.
If it was involved in the local shootings, then using it as a drop pistol would cause ripples in true justice that could go not only from keeping a bad guy on the street, but to a false conviction of some poor sap, who knows.
In your experience and opinion, how reliable is the average (non-several thousand Dollar) 1911?
I agree. It would be nice to "find" a gun with no obvious owner, and no way to trace it to you, but if it's been used in a crime, it will eventually bite you. There may be a bullet with its rifling somewhere in a police evidence room. Too big a risk.
I've never paid over $1000 for a 1911. Over the years I've owned several (sold or traded them). I've found those 1911s to be very reliable. I've gone through numerous training courses and matches with them. I do agree, however, that they need to be cleaned and lubricated properly.
Since I’m feeling particularly paranoid today, here’s my two cents..
What if the gun was placed there by the cops as bait for one reason or another, they were watching to see who came along to claim it, and your innocent daughter came along, picked it up, and just started to walk away with it...could be a real mess for her...
OK, so I’m done with my paranoid fantasy for today, have fun!! :)
Think about all the reasons someone would throw a gun out a window into a marsh.
Now, how many of those reasons don’t involve something illegal?
I’m pretty creative and can’t think of any.
So, now what do you think should happen to it?
I don’t have any personal knowledge about that website, but it seems like a good idea to me. I wouldn’t give them any personal information other than necessary though, and a throw-away email address.
“I’m pretty creative and can’t think of any.” Ever been married?
The only way it would be valuable to the cops would be if it was used in a crime and still had some fingerprints on it.
Drop in a new Glock barrel. Problem solved.
Excellent idea. Especially when it's found in your possession, they run the ballistics and discover it's tied to half a dozen murders. /s
Why would anyone want to throw away a perfectly good .45cal Glock?
There’s no doubt she did the right thing.
Found guns are almost never a good thing. Best to let the cops keep it.
“I would have picked it up, kept it, and not said anything to anyone about it.”
Really? You’d risk possessing a firearm very likely to have been involved in a violent, probably lethal crime? Not to mention that the gun might be a key piece of evidence that could stop a violent criminal from committing further mayhem and/or helping grant peace to a family shattered by a loved one being slaughtered by a violent criminal?
“The only way it would be valuable to the cops would be if it was used in a crime and still had some fingerprints on it.”
Or other physical evidence was found at the drop site, or canvassing produced a witness who saw something being thrown out of a car and provided description of the time or vehicle, or it wasn’t thrown from a car at all but was part of a nearby crime scene.
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