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Laying low might be OK, but I can almost guarantee there will be no more amnesty periods.
Trouble is that if one should have a problem, like a fire in the house, and the gun is found... That happened to a friend of mine; he got five years, but 4 were suspended.
I would suggest that anyone in that position should either destroy the gun, throw it in a deep lake, or call an attorney and arrange to abandon it to the police or BATF. Keeping the parts and just abandoning the receiver might be allowed. Abandonment should present no problems, but that is why the person's attorney should be present. Of course the person should do this as soon as possible after finding or recognizing the gun; a delay could raise questions. So if a person were in such a fix, the person might say that the gun was found "yesterday" or "over the weekend", not that it was found two years ago and has been fun to shoot.
Jim
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