Posted on 07/24/2019 4:42:38 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
A man experimenting with a magnet plucked a fully-loaded Uzi submachine gun and several other weapons out of a pond in Massachusetts, reports say.
The unnamed individual called the police after pulling the Uzi out of Pillings Pond in the small town of Lynnfield. Lynnfield officer Patrick Curran inspected the submachine gun and discovered it was loaded, before encouraging the man to throw his powerful magnet – attached to the end of rope – back into the water to see what else he could find.
The magnet fisher pulled another four guns from the pond, including a Glock handgun, a Colt Cobra revolver, a semi-automatic handgun and a revolver with “significant corrosion”, according to The Boston Globe. All five of the firearms were loaded, local police said. The weapons were handed over to state police ballistics for further analysis.
A state police diving team was also called out to conduct a more thorough search of Pillings Pond, but the magnet man had done such a thorough job they did not find anything else.
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Someone actually lost his guns in a tragic boating accident?
In before the ‘horrible boating accident’ replies! Woo-hoo!
What’s the # again for the cops...….
Late!
While shooting fish...
Well done!
Lynnfield is next door to me btw. Very affluent, beautiful town.
One can buy a semi auto uzi. I wonder if that was the real thing they found.
In before the ‘horrible boating accident’ replies! Woo-hoo!
Freepers seem to be very inept when it comes to boat management.
That step from the dock to the boat is a doozy in bad weather
That step from the dock to the boat is a doozy in bad weather
We should have our own yacht club.
I’ve been using the wrong bait.
and I thought they were all joking about the "accidents". They were telling the truth all along. Forgive me for not believing.
...and he called the cops and turned them in?
Don’t those guns know that Massachusetts has very strict gun control laws, and they aren’t allowed to be there? /s
WHY would one call the cops???!
Could keep them or make a nice buck.
Lynnfield was a nice town years ago. Has it changed? I would understand if their were “Lynn”.
Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin.
You never come out the way you went in.
Not the same place.
...because one cannot be sure what crime(s) un in which said uzi may have been used. Origins unknown is scary.
Because they could have been used in murders, and you try to sell them to an undercover cop. Not worth the risk.
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