Posted on 02/02/2022 8:09:49 AM PST by PROCON
MIAMI — A man and his 11-year-old grandson found a little more than they were looking for during a weekend fishing trip. The pair pulled two .50-caliber Barrett sniper rifles out of a canal near Miami.
Duane Smith told the Miami Herald he saw a YouTube video on magnet fishing and decided to give it a try on Sunday. They dropped a 5-pound magnet in the C-102 canal in southern Miami-Dade County.
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“Only a crime if they move them out of Florida.”
Florida 790.27
(2)(a) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, deliver, or possess any firearm on which the manufacturer’s or importer’s serial number has been unlawfully altered or removed.
“are 50 cal barretts even available to the general public??? Is there more to this story?”
Congresswoman Marjorie Greene just raffled one off. I did not win it.
knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm or ammunition was stolen
"But I assumed they fell overboard, officer..."
I'd throw one back in the canal just to be on the safe side...
The shooting range I go to is in FL. I once asked the firingline guy there if anyone ever brought in a Barrett .50 and he told me there were a couple of guys who would bring them in to shoot. He said everyone would stop and watch when they were fired. Said they were loud.
Good for anything on 4 legs. Or more….
{J) Not applicable in this case.
(k) Is applicable
A case for Horatio Cain 🤓
Matt Hoover of CRS is
In the crapper over That !
Validation of the loss in a boating accident is wonderful news. I wonder if the rifles were salvageable after their stay in the water.
I don’t understand why anybody is even arguing with you on this point—the statute is clear WRT guns with obliterated serial numbers.
“I wonder if the rifles were salvageable after their stay in the water.”
I think ATF has the capability of reconstructing the serial numbers.
You are correct, by strict reading of the law, mere possession of a firearm with an obliterated SN is illegal.
However, it appears only one rifle had this problem. So, the guy turns in one to the cops and keeps the legit one.
Yes, they do. The technology is that when a SN is stamped or engraved, it alters the underlying metal. Filing the SN off does not remove the changed underlying metal. The ATF can reconstruct that SN by examining the alterations in that metal.
That’s why the smart criminals center punch the heck out of the serial number area to upset the metal there.
"The Barrett M82 (standardized by the U.S. military as the M107) is a recoil-operated, semi-automatic, anti-materiel precision rifle developed by the American company Barrett Firearms Manufacturing."
Barrett makes .50 BMG anti-materiel rifles that have found some favor among snipers and others of the long-range interdiction bent, but that is purely a case of a under-promising and over-delivering. It was neither designed nor marketed as a "sniper" rifle.
The bigger question is, would those rifles still shoot? Gun writer Chuck Taylor once put a Glock 17 in the ocean and left it a month. When he came back for it he saw no sign it had been exposed to harsh conditions of any sort so he put it back and left it another five months. After six months in salt water, it had two small areas of surface rust that Taylor buffed out with 00 steel wool, and it still functioned perfectly. He ended up documenting firing more than 300,000 rounds through that same gun.
So inquiring minds want to know, would the Barretts still shoot?
Oh wow. I would have been a dumb criminal. :)
We are not talking about the same thing. .50 BMG rifles are perfectly legal. Stolen ones are not.
who says they are illegal?
the very thing the second amendment was written for.
naaa baaaa.
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