Man pulls Uzi submachine gun out of a pond with magnet and rope

The Independent via Yahoo ^ | 7/24/2019 | Adam Forrest

[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.

[Rurudyne]

Aside: the other day while not looking for them I found my glasses that had been missing for about a year....

[dp0622]

Good points.

Is each state law different or do you have to call the police when you find a gun or guns?

[Tax-chick]

While shooting fish...

Lots of fish, or really big fish ...

[Rurudyne]

Illegal Alien Arms no doubt.

[Tax-chick]

It looks pleasant and rather scenic.

[Larry Lucido]

They remembered to leave the guns and took the cannoli.

[Jewbacca]

I’m surprised the MA cops didn’t arrest him for gun possession (after all, he had them for a couple seconds).

You know, for the children.

[dp0622]

lol

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

In before the ‘horrible boating accident’ replies! Woo-hoo!

[Shane]

Wow, what a dim bulb.

[Ancesthntr]

Change the barrel and firing pin, problem solved.

[Haiku Guy]

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.

This is the funniest line of the article.

It's amazing how the police find nothing.

[tired&retired]

There were lots of fish in the pond so he needed auto loading weapons with big magazines. You never know when they will all turn against you at the same time.

[mountainlion]

While shooting fish...

Was it fish shooting fish or were they shooting something else.

[Haiku Guy]

The tragedy of fish on fish crime...

[from occupied ga]

Could keep them or make a nice buck.

Probably rusted beyond salvage

[datricker]

It’s almost like the cops sent this guy on a fishing expedition. Can anyone say parallel construction

[LouAvul]

I always wondered what Eddie Coyle’s friends did with those guns and why they always needed new ones.

[madison10]

...because one cannot be sure what crime(s) un in which said uzi may have been used. Origins unknown is scary.

[DCBryan1]

Should have kept his mouth shut and hope for an NFA amnesty period or an outright ban......Uzi’s make good urban area suppression tools.