[PROCON]

Magnet fishing, huh?

Hmm, all those guns lost in tragic boating accidents gives me an idea. 😏

[Wizdum]

If the serial #’s are filed off, the ATF has them already.

[katana]

Wow! They really did fall out of the boat.

[alephnull]

"Detective Christopher Thomas told the Herald it will likely take the department a while to determine if the weapons were used in a crime."

Why will it take a while to figure out if they were used in a crime? How many crimes have been committed with a .50 cal? I doubt anyone robbed a convenience store carrying one of these.

"It looked like it was something that someone would want to come back for”

And now the person who hid them knows who found them and turned them in. I'm guessing he's not happy. Best to turn them in quietly and stay out of the news.

[teeman8r]

should have just said nothing...

people need to SSS.

shoot. shovel. shutup.

[cyclotic]

Best I’ve ever gotten is rebar and fishhooks.

[fella]

Did they find my other guns too?

[from occupied ga]

Nothing like storing your rifle in salt water and mud at the bottom of a canal to enhance the finish, keep the action working smoothly, and preserve the accuracy of the rifle

[Deplorable American1776]

A case for Horatio Cain 🤓

[Paal Gulli]

Barrett does NOT make a 50-cal "sniper" rifle.

"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?

[Political Junkie Too]

With my luck, I'd find an old WWII naval mine that drifted into the canal.

-PJ

[posterchild]

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