I went fishing and caught a gun.

for anyone wondering, we took it to the police station and gave it to them. a few hours later, they called and said we could have it back.

i wonder who got killed by that gun right before it was thrown in the river :O

Dude that’s looks so star warsy

That’s a murder weapon.

Those don’t look any less silly in good condition. It was known for quality issues. Including, but not limiting to, the bolt running away, which means full-auto… without any of the control of full-auto.

If you need help imagining that, just imagine a very spicy Roman candle.

Oh yeah, that’s a crime gun for sure lol

Holy shit it’s the Lassiter from Firefly

I thought that only happened in Fortnite

Looks to be a tek 22. Those are also known as boat anchors since they jam so often. It’s the little brother of the tek 9 from all the rap songs and are generally inaccurate POS. All of that being said. Given some sand paper, wd40, and a bit of time I could probably get it to fire again. Then it would jam because it’s better used as a boat anchor.

[Intratec TEC-22](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intratec_TEC-22) With a weird barrel attachment.

A small, cheap semi automatic pistol. Did you contact the cops about it? Most likely some hunter or target shooter dropped it on accident, but it might have been involved in a crime.

It would be a nice collector’s item if it were in better shape:
[https://www.icollector.com/Intratec-Tec-22-22-LR-SN-029809_i29585349](https://www.icollector.com/Intratec-Tec-22-22-LR-SN-029809_i29585349)

Honestly, tell the police. It might help solve a cold case.

It’s almost certainly a murder weapon… and it’s almost certainly worthless as evidence, given the state of the thing. That’s probably why the cops offered it back to you. One, it was nearly a worthless hunk of crap when it was brand new, and now it DEFINITELY is totally worthless. The amount of time it was in the water has removed any possibility of there being trace evidence on it, and it’s clear that somebody intentionally scratched the serial numbers off of it (you can see the scratch marks over the number plate in the picture, and the plate is illegible). Ballistics analysis is already a highly flawed and unreliable area of forensics, almost so bad to put it in the junk science category. It isn’t TOTALLY worthless, but it’s only useful as a tool for adding circumstantial evidence to a list of more concrete evidence, and only in a best-case scenario: a perfectly extracted projectile from soft tissue, preferably JSP or ball ammunition (as to eliminate as much deformation from external sources as possible, and a gun with uniquely identifying barrel or muzzle characteristics, that would leave unique marks on the projectile. Caliber plays a factor too, with larger caliber bullets being less likely to deform as much, making them easier to match to a particular weapon. Someone using a TEC-22 is probably gonna run the hottest hollow point .22LR ammo that will run in that gun (YMMV… those things are fucking terrible, so the likelihood of being able to match a bullet to that thing when it first went in the water was dubious at best. Now, it’s useless, and the cops know it, and don’t want the pile of shit cluttering up their evidence room.

That thing definitely has a body count.

Found just outside New Vegas. Fishing never changes

So that gun was probably used in a crime. It looks like the serial number is there, but look at the scratching around that area specifically, someone clearly tried to scratch it out. They probably gave up on scratching that off before figuring nobody would ever find it in whatever body of water you just fished it out of.

What bait did you use?