Firearms found in bushes: 'I could just see a total incident happening'

uhmm no_law  that does that have to do with guns found?  some people use any excuse to whine I guess!   I didn't see one mention about  them trying to find the last registered owner of those guns to make sure they weren't stolen.  come on cops do you job return those guns to the rightfull owner if one can be found. they may be rusty and in non firing condition but they maybe be something that belonged to a long deceased relative and have great sentiment to the people that lost them.  it makes me wonder if they weren't  real nice guns and the cops that found them just want to take them home or not. 

I know of an instance where someone got busted trespassing  and was in the car with someone who had been convicted of a felony so the persons shotgun that was also in the car got confiscated by the coburg police  I was the last registered owner of that gun I received no call from the police to make sure the gun had been purchased from me  it just went into their inventory. the person I sold the gun to was just guilty of hunting turkeys with an ex con and letting him take them into private property  but they still took his gun and poof  it magically disappeared

 

I think the cops are making a mountain outta a mole hill guns are dropped all the time. I found a rifle in my trash dumpster a month ago called  E.P.D.to come get it, took'em 5 hours to come and get it. Found out it belonged to a

guy that was mental and tried to burn his Apt. down . So yeah guns are dropped all the time and nobody calls the media about it.

Few rifles and shotguns are capable of enduring a year of exposure to the elements and dirt and still remaining functional. 

The most immediate threat from any one of these weapons would be equal to that of a baseball bat.  You could pick them up and swing them, but they won't fire.

So in order to make them effective they would need to be

broke down and cleaned

lubed and put back together...correctly

ammunition would need to be purchased

Then they could "possibly" be a threat

OR.....

They could be used to stop;

a home invasion

an armed robbery

an abusive spouse

a rabid animal

a door to door salesman

OR....

 mounted to a wall and used as;

a handy towel rack

a sweet shower grab handle

multi-roll toilet paper rack...nice

So depending on your perspective, a person could view them as a great find rather than :scary/spooky

So pervasive our guns in our community, that they wind up dumped in ditches.  Were they stolen?  Taken by kids from their home?  Who knows?  One thing's for certain: someone really irresponsible left them there, without a thought about the danger they posed.

A nonstory.  And I am amazed that they bothered to quote her saying, "A lot of people don't know how to manage weapons but a lot of people in this community do."

 

What the hell does that mean?  Is her opinion that they do or don't??

 

And I see we have the Lane County Barney Fife Sheriff's Office on the job!  They don't have time to run the numbers to see if they're stolen evidently, might interfere with a Dari Mart run for more biscuits and gravy.

 

And mark my words, those weapons won't be destroyed right away; a deputy is going to take them home and clean them up and see if he can salvage them for use. If he hasn't already.

 

Veneta deputies are the scummiest on the force.