Al Capone's gun? (not really)

[orygun]

A loaded 1908 Colt was found recently in a distillery that was associated with Al Capone. Kinda cool, but the dudes from the distillery are obviously not gun guys...

https://www.wkrg.com/news/prohibition-era-gun-discovered-in-walls-of-distillery-linked-to-al-capone/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WKRG&fbclid=IwY2xjawPduVpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF3TTVNaWp5ZzBMMXRBaG9Sc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjxT-b755dbDdeF45XqqdrD7sGrs9ziyFpy193kLFRGkpSRko3SMMX8sajr4_aem_w2E_JzN_ksBO124tEX7_tw

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[Tlock]

Ive heard stories my whole life about people finding guns in this fashion. When is it my turn to find one?

Pretty cool, besides those scary loaded clips......

 

[orygun]

Ive heard stories my whole life about people finding guns in this fashion. When is it my turn to find one?

Me, too. The best I've found was a knife.

 

[RVTECH]

Pic I found.

 

[dangerranger60]

I worked as a plumber for a long time, I have found lots of stashes. A few with guns in them. before the 1980s gun safes were not common. everyone stashed their goodies. If you spend enough time in attics and basements you will find them too. DR

 

[Alexx1401]

Pic I found.
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Would be cool to stumble onto that. If it was me I would be cleaning it up good and testing it out.

 

[orygun]

My wife's Grandfather's gun.
We've tested it.

 

[Nosferatu]

When is it my turn to find one?

Tomorrow.

 

[Mark W.]

My dad was a HAVC sheet metal man. During a slow period he was putting a new oil furnace in an old house in Salem OR. They went in the basement and got everything setup. Figured out where to cut for the heat registers. Cut a couple holes and when they went up to set the registers and one of the holes was missing. they went back down and did some measuring. come to find a 6ft deep room along one wall. The lady gave them permission to cut into the wall.

Inside they found a nice copper still and various junk. The lady was afraid of what the law would say about a still in her house so Dad and his apprentice smashed it flat and threw it in the truck. she gave dad a couple fancy picture frames that was in the room.

I worked with a guy who owned a couple rental houses. upon cleaning one out that had been left a big mess. in the top of a kitchen cabinet he found a Rugar Blackhawk. He took it down and pawned it. Then went in and picked it up a week later. Figured it must have come back clean as they gave it back to him. This was quite some time ago so BGC stuff did not apply.

Me nothin.

 

[gmerkt]

I worked with a guy who owned a couple rental houses. upon cleaning one out that had been left a big mess. in the top of a kitchen cabinet he found a Rugar Blackhawk. He took it down and pawned it. Then went in and picked it up a week later. Figured it must have come back clean as they gave it back to him. This was quite some time ago so BGC stuff did not apply.

You can never tell about off-paper guns from the past. These days in Washington state, every transfer involves a serial number check through the National Stolen Gun List.

 

[red1982]

I was doing a remodel on my house about 20 years ago and found a 1928 colt woodsman it's one of the best shooting .22s I have shot

 

[Tlock]

I was doing a remodel on my house about 20 years ago and found a 1928 colt woodsman it's one of the best shooting .22s I have shot

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Ill take it!

 

[Spitpatch]

Not found in an attic, but here's one that I call my "Sunday Go To Meeting" or "Barbecue" gun. Factory nickeled and engraved. My collecting buddy says it probably belonged to a Prostitute or a Lawyer.

Girls really like it, so I'm leaning toward the former rather than the latter.



Colt's Model 1908, .380 ACP, factory nickeled and engraved. It is accurate enough to plink pop cans at 25 yards reliably, and may have defended the dubious virtue of a working girl.

 

[Stomper]

Me, too. The best I've found was a knife.

I worked as a plumber for a long time, I have found lots of stashes. A few with guns in them. before the 1980s gun safes were not common. everyone stashed their goodies. If you spend enough time in attics and basements you will find them too. DR

Dang all I've ever come across a few times was someone's stash of nudie mags...

 

[Spitpatch]

A true "attic find". A co-worker advised me of a friend that had found a gun in the attic of a house she had just purchased in North Portland.
She was a very nice "Hippie/Granola" type, knew nothing about guns but was smart enough not to be afraid of them, and to take the cash I offered rather than relinquish it to the cops.

Interestingly enough, it was stored there in a long box with the return address of "Bannermans" (a worldwide famous surplus/weapons dealer back in the day).




Stevens Model 29-A. Pump-action rifle, caliber .22 short, long, long rifle. Factory hand-checkered and a robust receiver and slide bar that make it a workhorse when compared to the more gracile offerings in hammerless pump .22's from Winchester and Remington. One of my most-utilized guns, it holds a permanent station and assignment near a door, and deals hollowpoint shorts toward any rodent that chooses to approach the vicinity of my house. A magazine-full will last the better part of a year.

 

[TTSX]

When I find a gun at work, it's because some idiot went to their car and got it because their supervisor yelled at them too much today. Never anything neat.

 

[dangerranger60]

I was once working in a transient apt building that was above a store, bar and laundry. The plumbing space was above the first floor ceiling and below the second floor there was enough room to walk hunched over. It was one of those places that had a sink in every room but the bathrooms were at each end. almost every room had a knot hole through the floor where the residents would drop their stash on a string.
One day I was up in the attic space when from everywhere I see guns, knifes, and dope bags dropping through those holes! I hear a bunch of shuffling around, and decided to get out and see what's up. As I'm backing down the ladder I find two Border Patrol officers with long guns telling me to come on down quietly. They asked if they could use my ladder and up they went, then a dog handler showed up and up he went.

 

[Spitpatch]

I was once working in a transient apt building that was above a store, bar and laundry. The plumbing space was above the first floor ceiling and below the second floor there was enough room to walk hunched over. It was one of those places that had a sink in every room but the bathrooms were at each end. almost every room had a knot hole through the floor where the residents would drop their stash on a string.
One day I was up in the attic space when from everywhere I see guns, knifes, and dope bags dropping through those holes! I hear a bunch of shuffling around, and decided to get out and see what's up. As I'm backing down the ladder I find two Border Patrol officers with long guns telling me to come on down quietly. They asked if they could use my ladder and up they went, then a dog handler showed up and up he went.

"No Country For Old Men" in real life!