Officers Stunned When Woman Drops $40,000 Rifle At Gun Buyback [2012]

UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/24/2016 | Unknown

[Lurker]

Link above

[Lurker]

Article at link

[TexasGator]

Unbelievable!

CT authorities allowed the women to sell it!

Article is not specific but hope at market price.

[PGR88]

It is unclear how many original StG 44s are left, although a cache of 5,000 were captured by Syrian rebels in the city of Aleppo in August of this year.

Huh? So ISIS or some of John McCain's friends found a huge cache antique rifles worth $200,000,000?

[fso301]

Probably never amnesty registered. Best kept in a well oiled flower bed.

[WKUHilltopper]

Note how the thieves with the god-state allowed this woman to walk away from 40k...some crony got a good deal. They’re working for you...though.

[20yearsofinternet]

Yep, seems like she’s being allowed to sell it at fair market value, very cool of the CT police to point out to her that she had a piece of history and not just some old junk.

Sad flamewar in the comments at the link making assumptions and passing judgement on the lady for turning the gun in. If she’s the daughter of a WWII vet, she’s probably pretty old and doesn’t have much use for such a heavy-duty weapon, and maybe even needed the money to supplement her income.

[HangnJudge]

[Bob434]

either that or she needed to feed her meth habit

[SunTzuWu]

Here’s the rest of the story that DM didn’t complete. —
However, at the time the officers received the gun, it was in such disrepair that it was inoperable, unable to shoot a bullet even if the gun had been loaded. At any rate, ammunition would have to be specially made for the rifle. The unnamed owner of the gun has left the valuable artifact at the police station for safe keeping. “We did not take the gun in for the gun buy-back program,” Crabtree said. “If we took it as part of the buy-back, we would have no choice but to destroy the gun. We don’t want to destroy that gun.” The owner intends to sell the rare weapon. “It sounds like her family could use the money,” Cavanna said.

[PIF]

“The storm rifle is thought to be a Sturmgewehr 44, made in 1944 and issued to SS troops”

[Jack Hydrazine]

The Ruskies used this Nazi gun to design their AK-47.

[Farmer Dean]

The article was published on December 10,2012.

[Robert DeLong]

Article is not specific because they do not know if she has sold it or not. I’m sure she will get, or got, a fair price out of it when sold.

[tanknetter]

So it’s an inoperable Class III weapon that most likely was brought into the country illegally as a war trophy?

Kudos to the CT authorities to let her sell it for fair market. But doesn’t ATF have jurisdiction over weapons like this?

[Robert DeLong]

I think you misunderstood, they would not buy back the gun because of it’s historical significance. In other words the police did they right thing here.

[Hot Tabasco]

The article was published on December 10,2012.

Thanks, I didn't go to the article but I thought it sounded familiar......

[Robert DeLong]

No. Soldiers had to get permission to send weapons home from the war. Besides that, apparently it is in such disrepair that it cannot be made operable anyway.

[Lurker]

Thanks for the correction.

Best,

L

[GreyFriar]

I remember back in 1976 or 78 when I was in Germany: We were on maneuvers during the fall and had lagered for the night. One of the guys in our tank company found at Stug 44 in a tree. It was all rusted and the stock partly rotted. I think the CO took it back to Ray Barracks, but I don’t know what eventually happened to it. It was definitely inoperative.

[going hot]

That tree rifle’s previous owner probably had bits of his dna all over the nearby trees, as well.