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Finders keepers
A fellow on the Texas sports board where I spend a lot of time posted the picture below today.
Seems he moved into a house 4 years ago and the previous owner had forgotten to check the top shelf in a closet. The new owner's wife was cleaning stuff out last year and discovered a heavy metal object on that supposedly "empty" shelf but she wasn't tall enough to pull it down. So hubby found this beautiful Ruger Redhawk - loaded. His dad made the holster for it.
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
-Rudyard Kipling
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That'll make ya smile.....
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That is cool but if it were me I would have the ser# run to make sure it was not reported stolen.
"Never pet a burning dog"
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How does one "run a serial number"?
Judging by today's left wing, looks like Senator Joe McCarthy was right after all.
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Lucky bugger!
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Someone somewhere is crying the blues.
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Funny the previous owner didn't come looking for it.
You'd have to take it to a Police Department to have the serial number run. Here we have to have the gun in hand to do it, won't do it over the phone.
If it's stolen we keep it and track down the owner.
Some might do it over the phone, not sure.
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Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
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"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."
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If he really wanted to keep it, he shouldn't have advertised having it. Now LE should have an interest in its history. It does have a history and a yellow sheet somewhere. It's not like an unmarked gold coin found in the ocean or desert!
Last edited by wyntrout; 03-28-2018 at 11:09 AM.
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Avatar: Wynn re-enlists his wife Desiree, circa 1988 Loring AFB, ME. 42nd BMW, Heavy (SAC) B-52G's
Frédéric Bastiat’s essay, The Law: http://mises.org/books/thelaw.pdf
Thomas Jefferson said
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
and
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
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Well, if it were me, I'd contact the previous homeowner and give it back.
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Yep. That's what I was thinking, but the OP had a holster made for it, then posted his find publicly!
Off topic, but I could never understand some of the finds reported... as one cache of OLD valuable coins found in a hole in Kommifornia. That state and many others would make some kind of claim. Look at those treasure ships lost hundreds of years ago... still claimed by several entities other than the finders!
USAF Retired '88, NRA Life Member. Wife USAF Retired '96
Avatar: Wynn re-enlists his wife Desiree, circa 1988 Loring AFB, ME. 42nd BMW, Heavy (SAC) B-52G's
Frédéric Bastiat’s essay, The Law: http://mises.org/books/thelaw.pdf
Thomas Jefferson said
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
and
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
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