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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HT: That's another argument which the initial poster never mentioned when he said they were illegal to own.......
I was aware that being in possession of a firearm from which the original factory serial number had been removed was often illegal; however, many gun owners may not know that. (Unfortunately, our gun laws are about as complicated as our income tax laws, so it's exceptionally easy for Americans to unintentionally violate both sets of requirements & restrictions.) Another Freeper mentioned it in Posts #32 & #41:
18 U.S.C. 922(k):
(k) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to... possess or receive any firearm which has had the importer’s or manufacturer’s serial number removed, obliterated, or altered and has, at any time, been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.
I am referring to the illegal rifles in the article.
I learned about gun laws almost 70 years ago when my father modified a .22 bolt-action single-shot for my small frame.
It might have been one of the Harley’s that were made by AMF in which case it would be understandable.
You are ahead of most of us. Our crazy-@ss, need-a-legal-expert-to-figure-them-out gun laws are what got Randy Weaver’s wife and son (& a lot of other Americans) killed. Most gun owners do NOT know enough about our local, State & federal laws to stay 100% safe...
Still, you would think it might have been of some value to some collector, somewhere, if he could park it way in the back of his garage, and didn't have to actually ride it in public...
;>)
I wonder if a couple clean stripped receivers could be ordered,for home or shop build.
Legal ones,with numbers and such.
That’s an excellent point: the defaced receivers may be illegal (because the factory serial numbers have been removed), but you would think the ‘fishermen’ might be able to claim ownership of the other parts, if there were no other fed/State/local restrictions that applied. I bet a Barrett parts kit like that would be worth a pretty penny (or two ;>)...
“Our crazy-@ss, need-a-legal-expert-to-figure-them-out gun laws are what got Randy Weaver’s wife and son (& a lot of other Americans) killed. “
Randy knew the law. Initially the FBI only wanted to use him.
Based on what I've read, he knew part of the law. That was the same part many gun owners know: minimum length for a shotgun barrel under federal law is 18 inches. So, when the government informant showed Weaver where he wanted the shotgun barrel cut, Weaver measured how much barrel would be left (more than 18 inches), figured it was OK, and made the cut.
What Weaver apparently didn't know (and many gun owners do not know) is that there is also a minimum overall length for shotguns, of 26 inches (again, federal law). When Weaver shortened the barrel to the requested length, he unintentionally violated the law related to overall length, not the barrel length requirement...
That's my understanding of the events, FWIW, "I'm not a lawyer", CYA, YMMV, etc...
Pretty much none.
There’s a law against keeping a gun you find?
It has to do with the condition of the serial numbers - see Posts #32 & #41 (or #161)...
I had heard that also but cannot find any reference to it now.
Bottom line is Randy was acquitted on that charge.
“There’s a law against keeping a gun you find?”
18 U.S.C 922 (k)
Florida 790.27 (2) (A)
IIRC, some big name lawyer volunteered his time, and represented Weaver in court. The feds didn’t expect that - and they also didn’t expect to be reprimanded by the judge, for various & sundry misdeeds (although Horiuchi eventually went scot-free)...
Thanks! Looked that up, and 790.27 (3) is interesting (apparently the State restrictions don't apply to antique firearms)...
No you haven't......
With that being said, it should be easy to post the statute prohibiting them again........
We're waiting
The rifles will likely end up in some police officer’s private collection
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