What would you do if you found a gun ?

[wizrd]

I can recall 4 long guns left at our club (outside) - all returned to their rightful owners. 1 pistol left on roof of owners vehicle as he left our range, - not sure if that one ever was recovered. Seems to be a lot of integrity lacking in some of these answers.

 

[Twogunwilly]

I can be pretty forgetful at times, just ask my wife. Even at my worst I would NEVER get very far before I realized my gun wasn't with me. How could someone just walk away from a long gun and not go back for it? Certainly didn't walk there by itself. Maybe it's best that a new owner found it
The Stihl 029 I've used for better than 20 years was found by my dad in a ditch on his way home from work. Bright orange case, couldn't miss it. He brought it home and made a good effort to find who ever just bought it. He placed ads in the local paper and spread the word that he found a new saw and was looking for the owner. He gave up after a couple weeks..... new saw for him Now I still use it. I wouldn't get rid of it for a new model.
Might have been stolen? Damn expensive chainsaw when it was new.

Injuns

 

[Bustedknees]

I try to attend the Memorial Day Cemetery Service near my camp. A few years back I had to flag down and stop the Vets before they drove off... A nice shiny mint condition M1A ( i think it was, my collection still lacks one ) in the .308 was still leaning on the fence.
I won't lie, I had bad thoughts for a few seconds about not being a nice person..

 

[Jmac00]

with my luck, the only firearm I would find, anywhere, would be a rusted out piece of shit that couldn't/wouldn't function even with a boat loads new parts

 

[Airborneguy]

Just to be clear, I wasn’t picturing the range when I said I’d keep it. I don’t even consider the range “finding” a gun per se. I was thinking more along the lines of the woods, or just randomly somewhere.

 

[Exonautic]

In the woods, when digging a hole, sweet new gun, if it's worth keeping of course. If it's turned into a rusted piece of shit or looks like it was intentionally put there, I'll drop a note to the police but I'm not staying around so someone knows I found their murder weapon...

 

[dubleuhb]

 

[Airborneguy]

Funny story. A friend of mine worked with Mara Montalbano and tried to hook us up about 10 years ago. We were just never able to make plans and I ended up meeting my now ex-wife and she met her husband while we were trying to set up the double date.

 

[Robin]

I found one buried. It was about eight months after the deadline. Made it legal and kept it.
Robin

 

[Calculon]

What gun?

 

[Robin]

Indeed! What gun?
Robin