Brickbat: A Little Rusty

Toronto police proudly tweeted an image of a handgun they recently seized. But Twitter users found the tweet both baffling and amusing, since the gun was covered with what appeared to be rust and sediment as if it had been on the bottom of a lake for several years.

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[m40195971]

Clearly an assault weapon.

[Ben of Houston]

No, it is clearly a salt-weapon. Lots of calcium deposits.

[Brandybuck]

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[yet another dave]

Give a gangster tetanus

[Mr. Bumble]

To protect and serve.

Obviously following the FBI lead in claiming credit for doing nothing.

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[Quo Usque Tandem]

Define "casual"

[Vernon Depner]

A number of regulars here have told us of losing their guns in tragic boating accidents. Perhaps this is one of theirs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Canadian Atlantis is a little safer today, eh?

[Jerryskids]

That gun was sent to sleep with the fishes, but it probably left a ghost behind. The cops should be on the lookout for that.

[Ecoli]

A high capacity death machine, eh!

[Griffin3]

Aw. They're like the special Ed kids.

[Longtobefree]

Clearly just fired; the trigger is still all the way back!

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Must be in auto-fire mode.

[sarcasmic]

Fuck Canada.

[Brandybuck]

'Murica's little brother.

[A Cynical Asshole]

You laugh, but that gun could still sprout legs and start walking around shooting people. These Big Damn Heroes should get medals for risking their lives to get this dangerous sentient weapon off the streets lakes.

[Brandybuck]

I recall that photo of a huge gun confiscation, and 90% of the guns were .22 squirrel rifles, and even a couple of actual BB guns in the mix. Making the world safer.

[MatthewSlyfield]

A few years back Scotland Yard published a photo of confiscated "knives". The picture included serving and/or carving forks, serving spoons a few letter openers...

[mad.casual]

You can take our guns from our cold, dea... OK, you can have that one.

[mad.casual]

several years

Also, given the gun (H&R, model The American, discontinued in 1941) and the corrosion, it's likely that gun has been in the lake for several decades rather than years.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Is it so bad, that this is the best they can do? Since they took a picture of it and "proudly tweeted an image" must be.

Since it had been dumped in water I am guessing it is from a crime of years past. I imagine everyone involved is long dead now.

[Don't look at me!]

Yes, the gun killed them all.

[mad.casual]

Since it had been dumped in water I am guessing it is from a crime of years past. I imagine everyone involved is long dead now.

The specific model has an exposed firing pin and a free-rotating cylinder even when the hammer is down or in the 'safe' position. Meaning even if you loaded up 5 and left an empty cylinder under the hammer, you could inadvertently rotate a live round under and into contact with the firing pin. Additionally, it's from an era between removable cylinders and manual ejectors. Between the two, it's exceedingly likely that the gun would have the cylinder removed and the rounds pounded out of it, causing it to fail to index properly and/or rotated a live round under the hammer and went off without pulling the trigger. Either case being worthy of being tossed in a lake entirely without killing anyone.

Or, you know, an actual no-shit tragic boating accident.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Not much I can discern from the photo, given the shape it's in, but it's not a Colt or S&W [just the trigger spur eliminates those]. Likely an old "Saturday Night Special" such as the average criminal would buy for cheap and then throw away once it was "hot." 1960s maybe?

[mad.casual]

Unsure of the caliber, but it's almost certainly an H&R 'The American' or 'Young American'. The octagonal barrel is pretty halmark of 'early 20th Century' and, either way, the terminal date of manufacture is likely 1941.

In the 40s and even into the 60s, your average gambler or street thug carrying a pocket pistol didn't have to worry about a 'hot' gun. Ballistics could be matched up but, unless you used the same gun in two bank robberies or something, it wasn't likely.

I'm, like you, tempted to say that 'chucked in a lake outside Toronto' it has a chance of being 'hot', but it's not even clear that it wasn't found somewhere in the mud on the banks of the Mississippi or in an old mine out West and collected in Toronto.

It almost certainly hasn't killed anyone in at least two decades.

[mad.casual]

Unless you used the same gun in two bank robberies in two different States that is...

[Utkonos]

I remember the media still talking a lot about “Saturday Night Specials “ when I was a teen in the 80s

[mad.casual]

I remember hearing "Saturday Night Special" in the 80s and wondering why it got as much play as it did.

[Utkonos]

If a sword drawn from a lake had power, imagine what a GUN similarly retrieved could do! The government needs to set up a Round Table Commission STAT! (I mean, oh good knight!)

[Stuck in California]

I don't know. If I went around saying I was Emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

[Utkonos]

Bloody peasant!

[Entelechy]

The police are proud because its the first unregistered pistol 3-D printed out of mud, which is stronger than most inks on the market