Posted on 12/12/2022 4:04:25 PM PST by rellimpank
You can usually raise the SN with acid since the area is work hardened. It is the way we identified stolen drill bits that had the SN ground off.
“Junk guns were going for NEW prices! I could not believe it!”
I was looking at estate sales a while back. One online had a good number of guns. I watched as the auction closed. It was ridiculous. A lever action (a Henry, I think) went for over $1000. I looked it up; it sells for $950 brand new. I have found people go nuts at auctions.
bears also don’t need a carry permit. So you know.. there is that.
The steel in a severely rusted gun might lose it’s molecular integrity. If it’s severely pitted, even just on the outside, it’s a wall hanger. A KB and your wife will be opening ketchup bottles for you.
It’s possible for a clean looking gun, or even a new one to blow up. Lots of things can go wrong with a highly pressurized round and weak steel, or a mechanical defect. With rusty guns you’re really taking a chance. Those should be hung on a wall.
I would run them all through the stolen gun database. Any gun store can do it and most will do it for free. But the problem is most people don’t keep records of their firearms and serial numbers so they won’t show up on the stolen firearms list.
They could, but how much use would you get from a firearm that has been underwater for an unknown amount of time?
All this csi talk,?,serial numbers, maybe if stolen; ballistics, only if matched to a crime which means having doing something stupid twice.
Get me a break.
Guns that behave are a pleasure to have around whether yours, mine or fished out of the drink.
A treasure trove of JUNK. Probably criminal junk.
I will never participate in this hobby.
Years ago, a friend of mine had some sort of illegal, automatic weapon and the guy that built it for him got in some trouble so my friend took the gun (rifle I believe) and in the middle of the night, drove to a bridge over a river and through the gun in.
Said he went home and after he got to thinking about it, couldn’t recall hearing a splash so the next day, he drove back to the bridge and sure enough, the gun was out in the open in the mud. He took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his suit pants and waded out to get it & this time made sure it made it into the water.
When my wife & I were first married, we’d go to auctions to buy yard stuff for the house. Remember bidding on a couple hoses & another bidder kept bidding it up to new prices so I let him have them & went to K-Mart and bought new.
Designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860, the original Henry was a sixteen-shot .44 caliber rimfire breech-loading lever-action rifle. It was introduced in the early 1860s and produced through 1866 in the United States by the New Haven Arms Company. The Henry was adopted in small quantities by the Union in the Civil War, favored for its greater firepower than the standard-issue carbine. Many later found their way West, notably in the hands of a few of the Sioux and Cheyenne in their defeat of Custer’s U.S. Cavalry troops in June 1876.
Wouldn’t it be rusted to the point of uselessness?
Thanks for the history lesson but I was talking about a modern Henry rifle.
https://www.henryusa.com/henry-rifles-and-shotguns/
Most “AutoZone” type part stores will pay $10 (gift card) for a car battery and $5 for a motorcycle battery.
Magnets don't work on coins, except maybe WWII steel pennies AFAIK, nor on jewelry unless it has ferrous clasps, pins, etc.
It must be because of all those unfortunate boating accidents we keep hearing about.
Chainsaws?
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