A boy went magnet fishing with Grandpa in South Dade

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So what is legal protocol with finding firearms? Yours to keep legally, or is it a shut your piehole deal?
 
I have an acquaintance that dives under bridges and in rock quarries. He has found lots of guns, including a registered Ingraham that was stolen and used in a crime. He turned it in to his local sheriff.
 
ChickenHawk said:
So what is legal protocol with finding firearms? Yours to keep legally, or is it a shut your piehole deal?
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This is a sore spot for me. Your damned if you do and damned if you don't with finding firearms. I'd want them ran to make sure the owner could get them back (if they were stolen). If the serial is defaced, that's another issue.

My experience in Cumberland: If you have a deputy check them out, they will not allow you to keep them, regardless of stolen status.

Last one I found, ran it, not stolen. "Sorry, you are not allowed to keep it, it COULD have been used in a crime." Humm ok.. Hey, ya'll want these knives too? "NOPE!!" ANYTHING else we have drug out with a serial number or VIN that didn't come back stolen was ours to keep, period.

Legally speaking I don't think there's any law covering it but if its stolen and your found with it.. well, your in possession of a stolen firearm, the outcome of that would probably depend on how friendly local LE is. I don't know if there is a process to take possession after they log one into evidence/found property. The hassle of pursuing that wasn't worth my time.



Also... Magnet fishing is illegal in SC. Just a FYI to all the members living in the "more free" Carolina.
 

Magnet Fishing

*Magnet fishing is Illegal in South Carolina, just a FYI. Been meaning to start this thread for a while. There's been a number of things posted recently and some members seem to have an interest so lets do it. Magnet fishing? Wutchu talkin bout Willis? Well, you tie a rope to a big magnet and...
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