What's the weirdest place you came across a firearm?

[Fireball1394]

So, while auctioning off a storage unit at work last month, we discovered a unit that belonged to a former Marine. We did everything we could to try to get a hold of him, and return what personal belongings we could after the unit sold, but we had no luck. The buyer came back the other day, wanted to make us an offer on something he found. He wouldn't say over the phone, but said we should have cash in hand for this cool find. So he comes in the next day, and starts bragging about this amazing pistol he found. Because of a prior "issue" in his life he cannot own it, so to our laughable surprise, this cool pistol he found was a Hi-Point C9. No magazine, in pretty rough shape, and with about 20 rounds of 9mm, he offered it for $150. Now we advised him of what he should do with it and tried to contain our laughter. So has anyone else come across a firearm in a strange way?

 

[ScouT6a]

May have told this story here before, but when I was in the Army, my buddy and I were at a school. At the end of the course, one of our instructors asked my buddy and I to take his issued truck to the wash rack and clean it up. (We were senior NCOs) The wash rack ended up kinda being out in the middle of nowhere. When we got there, there was several vehicles already there, so we parked up on a hill a few hundred yards away and waited. When the other vehicles left, we could see something setting at the wash rack and when we drove down there we discovered it was a metal folding chair with twelve M16s stacked on it. We secured them in the back of the Blazer and proceeded to wash the truck. Noone showed up, so we went off in search of the "owners". Turns out it was a bunch of Specialists and Corporals that were going through a Primary Leadership Development Course. We discussed a punishment with their instructors, who decided that 100 pushup per rifle was a fair punishment and asked if we agreed. We did.

 

[Dirtebiker]

Found a pos .25 in a investment house I was cleaning out. It's sitting in a drawer or on a shelf somewhere now.

 

[Ballstater98]

.22 pistol in a cornfield while working on my FIL'S farm. We cleaned out all the dirt and it shot just fine. Someone must have chucked it out a car window going down the road as that was about the distance.

 

[ruger1800]

May have told this story here before, but when I was in the Army, my buddy and I were at a school. At the end of the course, one of our instructors asked my buddy and I to take his issued truck to the wash rack and clean it up. (We were senior NCOs) The wash rack ended up kinda being out in the middle of nowhere. When we got there, there was several vehicles already there, so we parked up on a hill a few hundred yards away and waited. When the other vehicles left, we could see something setting at the wash rack and when we drove down there we discovered it was a metal folding chair with twelve M16s stacked on it. We secured them in the back of the Blazer and proceeded to wash the truck. Noone showed up, so we went off in search of the "owners". Turns out it was a bunch of Specialists and Corporals that were going through a Primary Leadership Development Course. We discussed a punishment with their instructors, who decided that 100 pushup per rifle was a fair punishment and asked if we agreed. We did.

wow, have been in a similar situation when in marines, weapons were way more sensitive than rifles, Sgt in charge got a slap on the wrist.

 

[mom45]

Browning 12 gauge pump laying along the highway in the ditch still in its case. We turned it in to the local sheriff in case it had been stolen or used in a crime. They held it for the required period of time. Nobody claimed it so it was returned to us. I believe my husband later sold it. It shot great but we didn't need it.

 

[Tomc1947]

In the early 90's, I purchased a ''86 Crown Victoria via a gov't auction. When I cleaned out the trunk, I found 3 boxes of 12ga, 00 mags under the spare tire.

 

[Vamptepes]

Friends house when I was a teenager. Their grandpa had died and left them some furniture. Sitting in the recliner one day and noticed a .22auto in the crack of the chair.

 

[red_zr24x4]

Running new gas mains and services in South Bend about 10 years ago a couple of guys found a double barrel 12ga in one of the alleys . It was pretty rusted up.

 

[KokomoDave]

I have found a couple pistols stashed inside the old Delco Radio plant 1 before it was demolished.

 

[Beowulf]

A buddy of mine was helping a friend of his do some work on his house (it was an older house, dating back to the turn of the century). While they were redoing a door frame in the kitchen, they found a small .22 revolver stashed into the frame. The serial number had been scratched off. They turned it into the police (though I'm sure whatever crimes that gun might have been linked to were decades old).

 

[gwingo]

I used to work as an Immigration Inspector at a small Port on the Northern Border. We worked side by side with Customs Inspectors and shared their authorities and duties. One day I stayed about 30 minutes late to finish some paperwork before I locked up. This Port closed at 4 every day. I hit the head before leaving and found a Glock 17 in the stall. The Officer I worked with that day had left it there before she left for the day. I called her to let her know I had something she might be interested in keeping.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Was helping renovate an old bank in downtown Kokomo into some office space for a church. As we were running electrical cable, we found an old double barrel shotgun in a wall. Sold it at the Tipton Gun Show and the church got the money.

After Dad died, I found a couple of old tear gas grenades from the 70's. He was a retired police officer and had all sorts of unique stuff. Chucked one down a groundhog hole behind the barn. Other one get set off during a thunderstorm and downpour. They still worked, despite being 40 years old.

 

[singlestacksig]

When my Wife's Grandmother passed away my MIL claimed that there would never be any guns in the house... We found one in the Grandmother's cosmetics Suitcase, one under the bed, & movers found a loaded revolver under a dresser...

 

[KellyinAvon]

My Grandma passed on several years back. When she lived out in the country before she moved to Orleans she had ammo stashed everywhere. Shotgun shells in the medicine cabinet, .22LR in the coffee cup on the mantle and in the big kitchen matches box on the window sill over the sink. When we cleaned out her house in Orleans there was ammo stashed everywhere. I think the .22 revolver was in the pie safe.

 

[Compatriot G]

When I was at Camp Lejeune, we were out in the tank having an exercise. We pulled the tank up to the area where we were supposed to be and proceeded to cut some tree limbs for camo. While I was cutting limbs, I saw an M60 machine gun under a nearby bush. I grabbed it and gave it to the Lt. He got on the radio and shortly after a Jeep pulled up and took the weapon. Never heard what happened to the individual that "lost" it.

 

[croy]

Nothing as interesting as some of these stories.

But I crawled into bed and saw 3 bright dots. So I reached up to touch what it was and it was the night sights I had just put on my gun.

 

[bos-94-003]

Found a .22 rifle still in the case on the riverbank of our local park. Turned into sheriff's and found out it had been stolen along with other guns. Took the sheriff's to where we found it but nothing else was found.

 

[kolob10]

While cleaning out a small storage shed for a lady who's husband had passed away years prior, I discovered an old single barrel 12 ga. shotgun hidden under a board on the top shelf of a storage rack. It was rusted shut. I now have it in my shop as a witness to poor firearms maintenance.

 

[BogWalker]

I have found a couple pistols stashed inside the old Delco Radio plant 1 before it was demolished.

For what reason would people be stashing pistols at a factory?

Dad found an old Remington double leaned against a tree in the woods a few years back. Apparently had been there a while as it still had paper shells in it. Externally it is actually in rather nice shape, but the bores are an unrecoverable mess as they sat full of water.