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Re: I thought I seen it all until now
Reply #30 - Mar 31st, 2026 at 6:36pm
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Might have been turned in to some gubmint agency when they getting rid of assault rifles back in the day. “Neatly” deactivated.
  
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Re: I thought I seen it all until now
Reply #31 - yesterday at 6:52am
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Statesrights wrote on Mar 31st, 2026 at 6:36pm:
Might have been turned in to some gubmint agency when they getting rid of assault rifles back in the day. “Neatly” deactivated.

 
Many years ago my father and I were helping to remodel a house owned by an older relative. In the course of tearing out sheet rock, we found two very old, rusted, and inoperable H&R revolvers in the walls of the garage.

Turned out there were both solid frame .32 rimfires. I took them home, intending to make shadow boxes, but they just sat in my garage getting rustier.

A friend who was pretty talented got them to function, sort of, but function they did and I took them to a police trade in event where I got enough cash to take he, his wife, his daughter, and myself out to dinner!  Grin You could see that the cops working the event were none too pleased to be getting what was obviously paper weights, but they were obligated to, so they paid out.

Perfect end for what was essentially found junk!  Cheesy Grin
  

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Re: I thought I seen it all until now
Reply #32 - yesterday at 10:27am
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I have a friend who bought every old junk stock, action and barrel he could find. Didn't matter how they fit together as he just taped them up and made them look like junk guns. Then he, his wife, and son each stood in line at police trade ins and got $50 each for them. His idea was to not just get the money, but also make them run out of money too. Sometimes he even got some friends to go along if he'd made up more than a few of these fake guns.
  

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Re: I thought I seen it all until now
Reply #33 - Today at 1:05am
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"what  may have  been a  crack "
LOL
And the welding looks like it was done by a student.
Asking 4-5 times what it's worth.
  

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