Dumpster diving pays
 

Although only so long as you get there before the ATF.

http://www.myfoxaustin.com/dpp/news/...ns_in_dumpster

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Guy must not have realized the value of what he had found...
Not surprising I guess.

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I'll bet it was some pissed off wife or GF - no guy in his right mind would do something like that - 8 !!! at $500 or so each min + 2k ammo at todays prices ????/ insane Bi***

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That's crazy! Usually dumpsters only contain intagiables like information.

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Guess you better know your 'garbage day'!

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That's what a buddy and I were thinking. No guy would do that, even a thief.

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the headline says found weapons

but in the story I did not see one weapon that they found.
with out the lowers you have nothing more then a tube of pipe.

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Well I'll be darned... You don't think the media would sensationalize it do you?:banghead:

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Uppers can still be used as a weapon. Anything that can harm someone can be a weapon. Now if they would have said "Guns found", they would have been incorrect.

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Daggum I need to do some dumpster diving around here if folks are throwing away stuff like that.

I agree with others, sounds like a PO'ed wife or GF.

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The obvious question to me here is: what are the odds that an ATF agent would happen to be looking in a dumpster where these guns happen to be disposed of (for whatever reason)? Seems more likely that the agent knew they were there from a tip or something. Maybe someone trying to get rid of something they weren't supposed to have (like flushing the drugs)?

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Lots of possibilities, and I'll use my personal experience to illustrate just one.

My dad hunted all his life, and from the time we moved from the burbs to a farm when I was teenager, I remember guns being around. He had a couple that he let me use, and he bought me a Winchester Model 94 in 30-30 when I was about 15 for deer hunting. He liked it so much, he bought another one for him.

He also had a Colt Woodsman, which was his Dad's. He didn't know I'd take it out of the nightstand and shoot rats in the barn with it, and then replace the .22 ammo in the mag with my stash for my rifle. He also had a Remington 12 gauge pump (forget the model) that he let me use.

When I left home, he let me take a pristine semi-auto 12 guage that used to be his dad's that he didn't like, my Glenfield Model 20 in .22, and my 30-30. The other guns were his and off limits to me.

Fast forward about 30 years. Dad has dementia, and is in a home because he gets too belligerent for my mom to handle. But in the early stages of dementia, there's a phase of paranoia. On one visit home, he gave me every last gun he had - even the Woodsman that he cherished. He claimed he didn't know how to register it, and that he wasn't even sure it was legal for him to have (this was Pennsylvania), and he just didn't want to deal with all the hassle of registering them. My assurances that he didn't need to register them and that he wasn't breaking any laws were futile.

So, imagine that a guy in his 40s or so, an avid collector, passes away without a will or any instructions on what is in his armory or how to use it. A grieving, senile parent cleans out the guy's place, and goes into full panic after finding a bunch of what looks like machine guns to him, which he's sure is not legal after decades of listening to ABC, NBC, and CNN. So Dad decides to ditch the evidence in the nearest dumpster before ATF and DHS go Branch Davidian on him.

Tons of other possibilities - the POd wife/gf is certainly plausible, too! Just wish I could have found the SOBs first!

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A dumpster diver found the uppers and ammo, walked up to some folks in the neighborhood and pointed out his find. The neighbors called 911 to report these extremely evil pieces of metal, and then the city cops called the ATF.

I'd have gone, "Hey! Finders' keepers!" and taken every last piece as my own. The courts have ruled that anything found in dumpsters is abandoned and free for the taking. And if the ATF showed up I'd tell them to pound sand.

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Man, what a load...

Think of what passes for news these days...

Purpose is ???

A diversion perhaps...

Nice post, Lars...Thanks...

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I think the odds of finding 8 AR uppers in a dumpster are much higher than finding a LEO and a journalist who between them know that an upper is not a firearm.

But miracles happen, it appears.

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Woulda been better off dumping them in salt water.