Houston area couple finds fully-automatic M16s in storage cases bought online

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September 27, 2022, 09:12 PM

Beancooker

Houston area couple finds fully-automatic M16s in storage cases bought online

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
Honest question. If you bought this lot yourself and found these guns in it, would you....

A - Report the sale/purchase to the appropriate (whatever they are) entities.

Or

B - Keep your mouth shut and enjoy your score.

Personally, given current times, I'm struggling with an answer.

What guns do you speak of? I just bought some empty pelican cases.

quote:
_{Originally posted by sigmonkey:
I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.}

September 27, 2022, 09:13 PM

sig2392

Maybe I am a chicken shit in my old age.

I would make a call to the feds and get rid of them.

How many years would you get for hot machine guns?

Not worth the risk to me.

Other can have different opinions.

September 27, 2022, 09:31 PM

radioman

quote:
Originally posted by sig2392:
Maybe I am a chicken shit in my old age.

I would make a call to the feds and get rid of them.

How many years would you get for hot machine guns?

Not worth the risk to me.

Other can have different opinions.

I might consider calling my local sheriff, who I mostly trust. Or I might call the State Troopers, but only the Troopers I know.

But the LAST PEOPLE ON EARTH who I would call would be any federal agency. No Freaking way!!!

September 27, 2022, 09:38 PM

bobtheelf

I'd absolutely return the 10 rifles I found in the case.

September 27, 2022, 09:45 PM

dsiets

quote:
Originally posted by radioman:
quote:
Originally posted by sig2392:
Maybe I am a chicken shit in my old age.

I would make a call to the feds and get rid of them.

How many years would you get for hot machine guns?

Not worth the risk to me.

Other can have different opinions.

I might consider calling my local sheriff, who I mostly trust. Or I might call the State Troopers, but only the Troopers I know.

But the LAST PEOPLE ON EARTH who I would call would be any federal agency. No Freaking way!!!

Word.
Put me on that list.

September 27, 2022, 09:48 PM

erj_pilot

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
Honest question. If you bought this lot yourself and found these guns in it, would you....

A - Report the sale/purchase to the appropriate (whatever they are) entities.

Or

B - Keep your mouth shut and enjoy your score.

Personally, given current times, I'm struggling with an answer.

I’d go on a boating outing in the Gulf of Mexico and “have a boating accident”. That’s all I’m gonna say…

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September 27, 2022, 09:54 PM

bossman

Possession of one unregistered machine gun is 10 years and 100K fine. That'd be a hefty sentence for a dozen..

September 27, 2022, 10:12 PM

joel9507

quote:
Originally posted by CPD SIG:
I still find it hard to believe that no one looked into the cases before they were auctioned off

Standard procedure, according to a buddy who does what the Houston couple does.

The storage facilities open the door but bidders cannot go inside and thus can't open contaniers and for that matter can only see what is visible from the door - whatever's on the top of the piles, outsides of the containers not buried by other stuff, etc.

I don't know how private the unloading is, for the winning bidders, and for that matter, if you're not expecting sensitive stuff, you might just open the boxes there and then to figure out if anything is fragile or needs special handling during transport before you shovel it onto the truck to take away.

September 27, 2022, 10:21 PM

Rightwire

"The military carefully tracks all of its weapons"

Are you SURE?

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September 27, 2022, 10:44 PM

bigdeal

quote:
Originally posted by bossman:
Possession of one unregistered machine gun is 10 years and 100K fine. That'd be a hefty sentence for a dozen..

So the same people who couldn't keep up with them in the first place are somehow going to have an epiphany and come arrest you for now having them? You'll find a picture of these people next to the term clusterf*ck in the Webster's Dictionary. Now if you roll into the south side of Chicago and have a trunk sale for da brotha's, yeah, you likely could run into a problem or two.

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September 28, 2022, 07:27 AM

P250UA5

quote:
Originally posted by bobtheelf:
I'd absolutely return the 10 rifles I found in the case.

September 28, 2022, 07:30 AM

RichardC

Being the honest and helpful type, I'd call Eric Holder to come pick them up.

September 29, 2022, 08:35 AM

Plugugly

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
Honest question. If you bought this lot yourself and found these guns in it, would you....

A - Report the sale/purchase to the appropriate (whatever they are) entities.

Or

B - Keep your mouth shut and enjoy your score.

Personally, given current times, I'm struggling with an answer.

If every fish in the sea kept his mouth shut, nobody would get hooked...

September 29, 2022, 09:47 AM

Edmond

quote:
Originally posted by Flash-LB:
quote:
Originally posted by hjs157:
"One of the strictest things we have in the military is weapons accountability."

Speaking as a guy who was a 76Y30 MOS, ordnance supply and issued guns to a brigade for a living, weapons accountability in the Army is largely a joke.

It was pretty fun seeing a 1LT run around JRTC looking for his M4.

Or the SGT who lost his NVGs and didn't bother telling anyone about it. We found it and kept them secured until his 1SG came to talk to our 1SG about them.

September 29, 2022, 09:59 AM

Mr. Peteroniman

that shipment was meant for somebody else

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September 29, 2022, 10:29 AM

Ryanp225

Screw the government. Why in the rolling hills of fuck would anyone be Stockholm Syndromed enough to turn these in?

September 29, 2022, 10:36 AM

gw3971

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
Honest question. If you bought this lot yourself and found these guns in it, would you....

A - Report the sale/purchase to the appropriate (whatever they are) entities.

Or

B - Keep your mouth shut and enjoy your score.

Personally, given current times, I'm struggling with an answer.

September 29, 2022, 10:39 AM

Ryanp225

I just have to think about all of these crates we don't hear anything about.

I still can't believe the level of cowardice it must take to tattle on one's self. Get the fuck out of my gene pool, will ya?

September 29, 2022, 01:41 PM

redstone

I would contact them. The ATF, and I would let them come and inspect and take the box of stripped receivers that were left in a bag in one of the boxes. . .

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