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Didn't we have a large thread concerning those exact same crates?
Wonder if anyone got lucky |
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Quoted: Didn't we have a large thread concerning those exact same crates? Wonder if anyone got lucky View Quote https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Cool-US-surplus-Hardigg-12-M16-case/5-2577809/?page=1 |
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Quoted: How much would 12 M-16 brand new parts kits be worth? I'd have thrown the receivers in the ocean and sold the kits. View Quote Or, you know, just keep everything, since at that point the custody chain is long since broken. It's not like they had to cut serialized locks or something to open the cases. If they really wanted to be good citizens, they could track down the vets on the weapon tags, and make some anonymous home deliveries. |
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Dear ATF,
I never thought this would happen to me, but I found a box with 12 completely stripped M16 lowers inside. Weird I know! They're pretty light. I guess that's why the previous owner thought the box was empty. Anyway, the box is under a bush at the corner of X and Y. Sorry for making you go get it, I'm sure you're super busy and all. Have a Great American Day! XOXO |
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Quoted: How small were those Fast and Furious tracking bugs the government put in rifles to sell to the cartels and then see where they went? Asking for a friend. View Quote About the size of a roll mark. There was supposedly some loopy idea about putting some kind of Raytheon-made tracking devices in the rifles, but that apparently didn't happen. |
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Quoted: Not worth the risk keeping the guns. It's not like you could sell them, show them off or even shoot them anywhere but a really remote place that you had to drive them to and from. Essentially, they would be 12 Federal felonies waiting to fuck up the rest of your life. The longer and further they are separated from the circumstances in which they were found, the less believable the story becomes to investigators, prosecutors and a jury. But yes, I would be tempted View Quote Half of the Bill of Rights, amendments 2 - 6, blatantly protects gun running. Because the founders were gun runners. Live a little. |
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E1: Sgt, this case feels heavier than usual, should we look insi-
E5: Just shut the fuck up private! And put it on the truck with all the other cases already! Hurry up! |
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Quoted: At the very least I'd be stripping the parts off the lowers. And then destroying the lowers. View Quote Attached File |
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Quoted: Not worth the risk keeping the guns. It’s not like you could sell them, show them off or even shoot them anywhere but a really remote place that you had to drive them to and from. Essentially, they would be 12 Federal felonies waiting to fuck up the rest of your life. The longer and further they are separated from the circumstances in which they were found, the less believable the story becomes to investigators, prosecutors and a jury. But yes, I would be tempted View Quote Since this is a gun site I shouldn’t even have to say it but there is a single serialized part on that rifle, the rest could have easily been sold for considerable profit compared to the price of the empty case it was delivered in. |
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At the very least I'd have 12 FN uppers with furniture kits for sale on gun broker
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Quoted: "One of the strictest things we have in the military is weapons accountability. So these weapons are missing somewhere from a U.S. armory, and somebody doesn't know it. That's the scary thing about that for the U.S. military right now." View Quote LMAO this shit is fucking common. I had a M242 (bradley main gun) in an army arms room that was supposedly in 2 different places in the US. The receiver was supposed to be in California, and the feeder was supposed to be in Texas. Yet I had them in fucking Kuwait. The Army fucks up their weapons accountability all the damn time and shit goes missing for sometimes years before anyone notices. View Quote This. I'm way out of date, but the system has been and will always be designed to cover the asses of the PBO types, balancing the books off of scapegoat captains when necessary. That goes for everything from rifles to tanks. |
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Perfect example of why not to contact or have anything to do with the ATF.
they willingly came forward and notified the ATF, then are served with a search warrant, have their place searched, etc . No good comes from trying to be honest and come forward to the ATF or FBI about something you found. If you are worried, just toss everything in a deep lake or have it crunched without saying a word to anyone and move on before the ATF or FBI screws with you for trying to do the right thing. |
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Quoted: Yep. Those 5 M16s he found should be returned to the .gov View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Mmmmhmmm. Always set the heavy "surplus military case" aside as a thank you gift. Crazy he found 11 M16 rifles. Yep. Those 5 M16s he found should be returned to the .gov Totally. Those 4 he found should go back immediately. |
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Quoted: They would have never found out if I had gotten those cases View Quote Same. I never come across treasures like that. |
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Quoted: CONUS there's pretty strict weapons accountability. However stuff going overseas and back has many handoffs and paperwork snafus. I imagine those rifles could even been from a unit that shipped them to DRMO, and the entire lot was written off as destroyed. However they forgot to empty one case..... View Quote This was exactly my thought. |
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Quoted: Legally should be their property now. View Quote In a perfect world.... But I'd have probably turned them in too considering the potential future fallout. Personally, the juice ain't worth the squeeze, especially since I pay for my ammo now. But yea, in a perfect world, I'd be up 12 rifles |
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Quoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/39329/1CCB3ACD-6270-4292-B9C0-AA443449C7EF_jpe-2540663.JPG View Quote Never a more fitting use |
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If I found 12 m16s I don't know what I would have done. I mean who needs 9 m16s. I would have taken all 6 of them to the nearest base and turned both of them in like a good citizen!
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all of them still with various tags designating the military branch and name of service members who handled the weapons. View Quote That is an epic trolling potential completely wasted |
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“Honey,, why’s there a bunch of pvc pipe and post hole diggers in the garage?”
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Quoted: clicking the link, the next story on that page was about a cop leaving a loaded ar rifle in the paring lot of a fiesta grocery store, and the lady who found it, with video. houston police department oops View Quote "Nobody is going to be harder on that officer than he or she will be on themselves because that's something that you're trained not to do. But, officers are human and they're going to make mistakes," said Stephens. |
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Definitely the only ones professional enough- note the 'tard around 2:18 with the orange shirt clearing the rifle left handed, finger on trigger. The guy in his car with the striped shirt turned in his man card years ago.
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Quoted: Not worth the risk keeping the guns. It’s not like you could sell them, show them off or even shoot them anywhere but a really remote place that you had to drive them to and from. Essentially, they would be 12 Federal felonies waiting to fuck up the rest of your life. The longer and further they are separated from the circumstances in which they were found, the less believable the story becomes to investigators, prosecutors and a jury. But yes, I would be tempted View Quote Drive to B'more. Yeet. Lulz. |
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They didn't notice that one case was 87 lbs. heavier than the others?
ETA: Beat like a 4-inch dick. |
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Quoted: How small were those Fast and Furious tracking bugs the government put in rifles to sell to the cartels and then see where they went? Asking for a friend. View Quote They were pretty substantial. If you took the buttplate off the stock you would absolutely see it. Actually you would see circuit boards and batteries and wires because the components were just glued into the stock. |
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Good job ATF getting those weapons of war off the street. Put there by the government.
Guess the dems were right- only the government can be trusted with them. |
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