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[Johnsond]

5 minutes ago, Commando said:

 

At least the chap did the right thing and handed them into…..The BBC! WTF
How about you take em to the police you fool!

Stinks to tell the truth 🤷‍♂️As you say far easier to drop them to a police station than try and find out how to get them to the BBC. 

[agg221]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

Stinks to tell the truth 🤷‍♂️As you say far easier to drop them to a police station than try and find out how to get them to the BBC. 

You would think so, wouldn't you...

 

A couple of years ago we had our river dredged. I was going through the dredgings before they got knocked flat to remove anything that might damage the plough and found a sub-machine gun.

 

I duly took it down to the local police station (wrapped up so it didn't look like one) only to find they no longer have a public counter. I rang the phone on the wall which connected me to headquarters and explained what I wanted to hand in. They transferred me to someone else who after 40 rings of not picking up I decided wasn't going to and put the phone down. Nobody in the station could be bothered to come downstairs.

 

I did contemplate shoving it barrel first into the knife amnesty box but decided that wasn't very public spirited, so I wandered off and brought it home again.

 

Alec

[Stubby]

55 minutes ago, agg221 said:

You would think so, wouldn't you...

 

A couple of years ago we had our river dredged. I was going through the dredgings before they got knocked flat to remove anything that might damage the plough and found a sub-machine gun.

 

I duly took it down to the local police station (wrapped up so it didn't look like one) only to find they no longer have a public counter. I rang the phone on the wall which connected me to headquarters and explained what I wanted to hand in. They transferred me to someone else who after 40 rings of not picking up I decided wasn't going to and put the phone down. Nobody in the station could be bothered to come downstairs.

 

I did contemplate shoving it barrel first into the knife amnesty box but decided that wasn't very public spirited, so I wandered off and brought it home again.

 

Alec

Still got it ? If so pics please 🙂

[Retired Climber]

28 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Still got it ? If so pics please 🙂

I wouldn't be putting proof of ownership of a section 5 firearm on the forum if I had one. 

[Stubby]

48 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

I wouldn't be putting proof of ownership of a section 5 firearm on the forum if I had one. 

De activated even ?

[Retired Climber]

1 minute ago, Stubby said:

De activated even ?

If he found it in a river I wouldn't have thought he'd have a certificate of deactivation, or the knowledge to know if it had been properly deactivated. For all we know, he knows nothing about guns and it's a toy. Equally, it may be real, loaded, and an accident waiting to happen. 

 

Anyway, this is way off topic and we are simply speculating on a situation we know nothing about. If it were me, I wouldn't admit to having it unless I was 100% sure of my facts. Nothing more, nothing less. 

[Stubby]

53 minutes ago, Retired Climber said:

If he found it in a river I wouldn't have thought he'd have a certificate of deactivation, or the knowledge to know if it had been properly deactivated. For all we know, he knows nothing about guns and it's a toy. Equally, it may be real, loaded, and an accident waiting to happen. 

 

Anyway, this is way off topic and we are simply speculating on a situation we know nothing about. If it were me, I wouldn't admit to having it unless I was 100% sure of my facts. Nothing more, nothing less. 

OK .

[agg221]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

Still got it ? If so pics please 🙂

 

[Retired Climber]

11 minutes ago, agg221 said:

 

As it's bullpup it looks more SA80 than sub machine gun. 

[Steve Bullman]

I don't think hes going to be firing it anytime soon 😀