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Old June 16, 2018, 09:18 AM   #1
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Your New House Contains A Full Auto Weapon

What are you going to do with it?

This happened to me in 1980. Bought property at a sheriffs sale. The big home made safe held a complete model 1919A4 machine gun in cosmoline, along with a shotgun and lever action rifle.

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Old June 16, 2018, 09:28 AM   #2
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Wow...that's enough to make me green with envy!!!
I'd immediately join the Thompson Machine Gun Club at our range.
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Old June 16, 2018, 10:17 AM   #3
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Will work for ammo

If I owned a machine gun I would be standing on the on ramp with the above sign.

Contact your Atty. If the MG is on the registry you may be able to keep it. Very unlikely, far more likely that it is a one way ticket to the gray bar hotel.

I had a deckhand years ago who had a really cool VW bug convertible, for which I offered him a very fair price.
Instead this idiot took a lot less cash and a genuine full auto AK! He proudly tried to hand the damn thing to me. He was taken aback when I refused to touch the AK. He was downright ticked off when I told him if he brought it on my fishing vessel I would toss it overboard.
He thought it would be cool to bring it out on the ocean and fire it where he thought HE would not be caught. Folks like this do not care about the legal complications he would create for me, the owner.

The AK was a Viet Nam bring back and of course was NOT on the registry.
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Old June 16, 2018, 10:51 AM   #4
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What are you going to do with it?

This happened to me in 1980. Bought property at a sheriffs sale. The big home made safe held a complete model 1919A4 machine gun in cosmoline, along with a shotgun and lever action rifle.
Surrender it immediately to the sheriff.

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Old June 16, 2018, 11:09 AM   #5
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Surrender it immediately to the sheriff.
Which is the only thing one can legally do with it, so that's pretty much all there is to discuss.
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