World War two guns laid buried under the ground for 80 years, and now are found all over Russia.

EnglishRussia.com ^ | 29jan17 | tim

[vannrox]

A selection of World War 2 guns that stayed in the ground for tens of years and now being dug out by Russian enthusiasts. The search for the old guns became very popular in Russia lately, so popular that a law was passed that abolished such kind of searches in Russian forests. Now if you going to be caught with a metal detector you can face charges. Still people go on this treasure hunt as the stock of the metal laying down in the ground since WW2 is immense. Photos and videos are here:

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And a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTKz8BRTpxU

[NorseViking]

Desecration of graves is a big part of such business they don’t like to say about. Nobody abandons such stuff for no reason. It usually involved killing the owners and often on mass scale.

Another reason is a great number of ‘archeologists’ and their families get killed or miamed handling stuff like grenades or trying to use guns which are often in poor condition.

Also near the peatbogs you can find guns in near mint condition and these are prized items for the organized crime. Gangsters paying big money for the weapons they know the forensics would never be able to track back to them.

[SunkenCiv]

They aren't archeologists, with or without those quote marks. Interesting about the forensics angle!