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Man, grandson reel in 2 sniper rifles magnet fishing near Miami
AP ^ | Feb. 1, 2022

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 50caliber; banglist; barrett; c102canal; florida; magnetfishing; miami; sniperrifle; tragicboataccident
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To: PROCON
With my luck, I'd find an old WWII naval mine that drifted into the canal.

-PJ

181 posted on 02/02/2022 5:21:17 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Who is John Galt?; TexasGator
You are ahead of most of us.

No he's not, especially when it comes to the legal ownership of a .50 Cal Barret rifle. He has stated repeatedly that they are illegal to own in Florida and I have asked him repeatedly to cite the law that bans them.

He has yet to do so.......

182 posted on 02/02/2022 5:25:32 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

Do you own any firearms with the serial numbers filed off?
Really?
Seriously?


183 posted on 02/02/2022 5:26:31 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Who is John Galt?; TexasGator
Here ya go, if you have the bucks, you can buy one for yourself.........LOL!

Shop for Barrett 50 online at GunBroker.com

184 posted on 02/02/2022 5:30:43 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Repeal The 17th
Do you own any firearms with the serial numbers filed off?

No I don't!

You obviously haven't been paying attention, the argument is whether or not a Barret 50 Cal can be legally owned in Florida. This has nothing to do with the weapon that had its serial number filed off.......

Really?

185 posted on 02/02/2022 5:34:55 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Red Badger

Don’t be so fast to claim them. Someone ILLEGALLY filed the SNs off.


186 posted on 02/02/2022 5:34:58 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Both of the firearms found had their serial numbers filed off.
They are both illegal to own.


187 posted on 02/02/2022 5:37:47 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
Both of the firearms found had their serial numbers filed off. They are both illegal to own.

No shit Sherlock!

Now pay attention very carefully, this argument is about legal ownership of a .50 Cal Barret, it has nothing to do with the two weapons that had the serial numbers filed off.

Let me repeat myself so that you fully understand what we are discussing here.

Once again, this argument between me and TexasGator deals strictly with the legal ownership of a .50 Cal Barret rifle which he clams are illegal to own.

Got It?

188 posted on 02/02/2022 5:45:40 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

Point me to the comment where anyone said a .50 Cal Barret
with an unaltered serial number is illegal to own,
and I shall thoroughly chastise them.


189 posted on 02/02/2022 5:48:05 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Now pay attention very carefully, this argument is about legal ownership of a .50 Cal Barret, it has nothing to do with the two weapons that had the serial numbers filed off.

Guess you have a very different understanding of Texas Gator's posts (including #32 & #41), than do some others here (including 'yours truly' ;>)...

190 posted on 02/02/2022 5:53:08 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("Shoeless Joe" played for the White Sox; "Clueless Joe" lives in the White House...)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Here ya go, if you have the bucks, you can buy one for yourself.........LOL!

Guessing the ones you linked to DO NOT have the serial numbers filed/ground/drilled off, like the illegal ones in the article?

191 posted on 02/02/2022 5:57:26 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("Shoeless Joe" played for the White Sox; "Clueless Joe" lives in the White House...)
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To: Who is John Galt?
Read the US Supreme Court opinions in Gonzales v. Raich; Justice Thomas got it right, but his was a dissenting opinion...

I have. Dope isn't my thing, but the WoD is the worst kind of Federal power expansion that has drifted over to things like... guns.

Just as some of us warned it would. And here we are.

192 posted on 02/02/2022 7:26:46 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Mr. K

?????


193 posted on 02/02/2022 7:30:36 PM PST by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: oil_dude

https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/9872/barr+m99a1sys+50bmg+sys+32in


194 posted on 02/02/2022 8:12:44 PM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: telescope115

Yep. Don’t own one. But do own a bear gun.

My father was an armorer during WWII, worked on Quad 50’s and Bofors. I have 3 50BMG cartridges in linked feed chain. (bullets were pulled and powder removed, smile) At an early age, I knew what a round it was. That was before it had the sophisticated recent advanced bullet design.

I reload for extended family. You have to really scratch today to get that job done.


195 posted on 02/02/2022 8:34:05 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: TexasGator

Sounds like abridgements and deprivation of rights under color of law.


196 posted on 02/02/2022 11:46:04 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Texas Fossil

Smile. Yes, quite a variety of photo’s on that website.

Imagine a 20mm rifle?

The average guy thinks that the $5-10 per round for 50BMG is expensive. I’d hate to buy 20mm ammo (or even components).

I like big guns. But am not as big as the guy in the photo you referenced.


197 posted on 02/03/2022 6:48:46 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Deaf Smith

Smile. Yes, quite a variety of photo’s on that website.

Imagine a 20mm rifle?

The average guy thinks that the $5-10 per round is expensive. I’d hate to buy 20mm ammo (or even components).

I like big guns. But am not as big as the guy in the photo you referenced.


198 posted on 02/03/2022 6:49:40 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: PROCON

My father and I used to magnet fish in the 1970s but only found old pocket and fillet knives below fishing piers.


199 posted on 02/04/2022 9:54:26 AM PST by posterchild
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To: Repeal The 17th
Point me to the comment where anyone said a .50 Cal Barret with an unaltered serial number is illegal to own,

Post #43 and every subsequent question I posed to him which he refused to answer.

200 posted on 02/05/2022 1:54:00 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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