Anyone ever “just find a gun”

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  • Mij

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    So I was reading some INGO posts a moment ago, and saw one about pocket knives. I thought I’ve got one of those. So I went looking for the belt it’s on. Lo and behold I found a gun I haven’t seen in about …. well I don’t know when, I’d forgotten all about it. I think I got it out last summer to do some plinking it’s clean so I must have set it aside after cleaning it and never put it back in the hidey spot. Yay for me, I’ve got a new gun.
     

    Kirk Freeman

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    You mean the Ruger 22/45 someone on INGO, cannot remember who, left on a SUV bumper while answering a cell phone before off to the range and found it when stopped for coffee and had a stroke/heart attack?

    Yes, did it once. That was enough.

    EDIT: yes, the Ruger stayed on the bumper the entire time. It was a Montero so there was the divot/cut out for the hatch door. I believe it was mostly in the divot. Drove from my house to downtown (2.5 miles) to coffee shop. Hopped out and walked behind the ride, looked down and staggered forward once it registered what I did.

    Don't be dumb like this.
     
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    When I was a kid I found a barrel less action from a lever gun. The stock was all but gone. It scared me so I threw it back. Always wish I would have kept it
     

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    Oh...that's what you mean.
    I thought it was like when a 12 year old is arrested for shooting up the neighborhood and they ask where he got the Glock with the switch.
    It’s not like this one was not secured. (And obviously hidden) It’s in my home, no kids or houses within miles. Three well trained GSD’s and I’m always at home. Or in the barns, or in the fields. If a stranger shows up I know it before they get up my lane. This ain’t the city, most kids already have there own guns by the time they’re 12.
     

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    to the OP's point, I occasionally will stare at a barrel sticking up way back in the safe and wonder what it is, then recall "oh yeah, that AKT-98 I haven't shot in a year...".

    But cooler: https://www.indianagunowners.com/threads/a-first-for-me-i-found-a-gun.501086/
    Ya, those seem to be true finds. Mine was a misplaced in my home and forgotten about. Hell, there is at least one if not more guns in almost every room of my house. Off the top of my head just looking around there’s 6 in here with me right now.
     

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    When I was a teenager (about 60 yrs ago) I found a 25acp pistol in the trash can at the White castle on Indy's southside. I was afraid it might be hot so I put it back in the trash after I showed it to the friends I was with. Don't know what became of it.
     
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    Ya, those seem to be true finds. Mine was a misplaced in my home and forgotten about. Hell, there is at least one if not more guns in almost every room of my house. Off the top of my head just looking around there’s 6 in here with me right now.
    I talk to some gun owners in the UK, and when I mentioned that when I sleep there are at least 3 guns within reach, one guy asked what I was so afraid of, I said "nothing, I have 3 guns near me" He said they don't need to have quick access to guns, crime is low there, and said yeah til someone goes on an knife rampage, and you have to stop them with a Gnarwhal tusk......he never responded.
     
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    Kirk Freeman

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    I talk to some gun owners in the UK, and when I mentioned that when I sleep there are at least 3 guns within reach, one guy asked what I was so afraid of, I said "nothing, I have 3 guns near me" He said they don't need to have quick access to guns, crime is low there, and said yeah til someone goes on and knife rampage, and you have to stop them with a Gnarwhal tusk......he never responded.

    Crime is low where I live. It's the stakes not the odds.
     

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    We have our share of crime. I hear the mower hitting the beer cans and bottles and the fast food crap when I mow the roadsides and just a couple weeks ago I saw a CSD deputy chasing a FIP down the road, presumably for speeding. We all have our crosses to bare I guess.
     

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    Anyone ever “just find a gun”​

    Yes, when I was about 9 or 10. Never been around firearms in my life except for watching a spot shoot or two.
    My sister and I were playing around in my step-dad's old 1965 LeMans. Like kids do, we were rummaging around in the car (setting out back for about a year). Under the front seat, I found a small semiautomatic.
    I didn't try to fire it or even look into the barrel. I went and handed it over to my mom.
    She and my step-dad hadn't been together but a couple of years. She (away from my presents), read him the riot act. They weren't married much longer, after that.

    As I think back on it, having never been exposed to guns except from TV and those spot shoots, I am pretty proud of my 9-10 year old self.
    It never crossed my mind to point the gun at my sister or myself.
     

    daddyusmaximus

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    Yeah, back when I was a Drill Sgt at Ft Benning... (Thank you God)

    Oh, and once in Iraq too at MWR. (Thank you God again) Was walking out of MWR with it when a panic stricken soldier came running back in. Yes, I went right the hell back into DS mode. I walked that soldier back to tent city to his PLT SGT. Thankfully NOT from my own unit.
     
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