MAN FINDS UZI SMG

[JoeBee]

I thought this was interesting, if only the guns could talk.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-pulls-uzi-submachine-gun-083103844.html

 

[mattnh]

Doesn’t look to have been there very long
Or that lake bottom is anaerobic...

 

[Gaujo]

was there a picture somewhere?

Would be cool if it were a transferable and it were returned to its rightful owner and restored.

 

[mattnh]

Click on the link in 1st post for the picture

 

[Coctailer]

I am addicted to the magnet fishing youtube videos.
Daniel Bowens (I think is the name of the best one.)

He doesn't know anything about guns, but his videos are pretty interesting.

 

[nklf]

Doesn’t look to have been there very long
Or that lake bottom is anaerobic...

Metal does not rust very quickly in "cold fresh water". There are wrecks in the great lakes that are over 100 years old and are pristine. Very little rust. The same wreck in salt water or warm water would be almost rusted away. I don't know if cold water is anaerobic or if there is something else that slows down the oxidation of steel at cold temperatures, but as a diver I have seen how little rust forms on wrecks in cold fresh water.

 

[slimshady]

Heat accelerates chemical reactions so colder water would react slower than warm. I believe deep water has less dissolved O2 as well.

Other than a cop stating it was an SMG, we have no idea what it was. A semi UZI, even if it has 3 selector positions, would look identical to a FA one unless you could function test it. Most of the cops I know have about as much knowledge of guns (other than the Glock they are issued) as Dianne Feinstein!

Could have been a widow or ex-wife getting rid of her hubby's collection "unofficially". Being MA, dumping them in a lake is probably the safest, least paperwork involved option.

 

[rentprop1]

Or that lake bottom is anaerobic...

Robert Bowman got all those MG42 tripods from a lake in Austria at about 100 feet, looked almost new, very cold water not much O2

 

[Battering ram NIB]

So a guy just happens to run a magnet in a lake and finds a gun would be odd. 1 in a million

But he finds a full auto Uzi. One In a trillion chance

Then the gun looks minty and he finds 3 other guns

Is that 1 in 100 trillion chance ?

I don’t believe the story

The odds are so slim I don’t think it’s possible

 

[Mackjack]

First mistake. He told someone.....

 

[Samuel_Hoggson]

Hmmm..... So you can lose them in a boating accident.

Next time best lose them at sea.

 

[MG34_Dan]

The barrel on the Uzi during the first few seconds of the story video is too long for an SMG. This appears to be a semi auto Uzi not an SMG.

 

[JohnnyE]

Finders, keepers...losers, weepers!

Does it transfer to him on a form 4?

 

[Gaujo]

Robert Bowman got all those MG42 tripods from a lake in Austria at about 100 feet, looked almost new, very cold water not much O2

Link? Sounds like an interesting story.

 

[glockman]

Nice UZI found magnet fishing. Wait..... what is wrong with the picture in the article??????

https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/01/fisherman-pulls-uzi-submachine-gun-canal-london-7787274/

 

[MPA guy]

Being british, I'm not surprised that he can't ID weapons any better than CNN news anchors and most of any filmmaker in hollyweird.

 

[komodoj]

Won’t be a link. You’d have to know Bowman personally. He’s a major importer here in fl!!!

Link? Sounds like an interesting story.

 

[wtrski76]

The barrel on the Uzi during the first few seconds of the story video is too long for an SMG. This appears to be a semi auto Uzi not an SMG.

Looks like a standard 10.25" SMG barrel to me

 

[APEXgunparts]

Robert Bowman got all those MG42 tripods from a lake in Austria at about 100 feet, looked almost new, very cold water not much O2

The ones that still have the grease on them?
They came out of Yugoslavia.
He brought up a couple of odd Italian tripods out of that deep lake where the US ordnance people "disposed" of them post WWII along with a whole lot of other material.
Those tripods sold on GunBroker.
Bob shared pictures with me of a lot of other stuff that was recovered, but cannot be exported to the USA.

Richard

 

[JoeBee]

The barrel on the Uzi during the first few seconds of the story video is too long for an SMG. This appears to be a semi auto Uzi not an SMG.

I tend to agree