I just found a gun.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

I purchased a gas space heater about a year ago from a resale shop to use in a workshop. Never installed it, it's just been sitting in there.

I was cleaning up the shop and moved the heater and was cleaning it up a bit. There's a little door on the side of it and for some reason I opened it. Inside was a black leather zip up case covered in dust, inside of that was a Colt snub nose .38 revolver.

I guess I'll call the sheriff and find out what one does with a found gun.

What a strange thing to find in a heater.

[LynneSin]

1. a heater in a heater

:shrug:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. I didn't think of that

Damn, that would have been a great headline. :D

[TransitJohn]

2. They'll probably check to see

if it's been used in any unsolved crimes, and if not, I bet it's yours. Do you like to shoot?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. I know how

I just haven't in many years.

I suppose it might not hurt to reacquaint myself.

[mainegreen]

3. Don't touch it!

Maybe it was used in a crime. You can't trust a strange gun.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. Opps...

I touched it.

I wasn't thinking and I wanted to check and see if it was loaded. :shrug:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

31. That's no big deal.

I'm sure they can distinguish the OP's fingerprints if they need to.

[BikeWriter]

4. If you give it to them it may become another throw down gun.

I've seen a case where one was used.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. I knew a very old retired Houston police officer who told me such stories

I used to hope he was pulling my leg, but the way he said it you knew he wasn't. :scared:

[BikeWriter]

14. As I said, I saw it happen. They got a conviction, too.

[kick-ass-bob]

18. Here's a throw down story to justify shooting (from May 04)

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040505-103158-7438r.htm

[Lone_Star_Dem]

19. They convicted an Innocent person?

Or was it the cop who threw down the gun?

I'm afraid I already know the answer, I just want to be sure.

[BikeWriter]

22. The one they caught was guilty, but they didn't find his gun.

They produced one to get the conviction. Had it been one of them involved in a shooting I have no doubt they'd have done the same. At least this one department is corrupt.

[AndyP]

28. just imagine if you would if you would have lit the heater

With a loaded gun inside? If it would have gotten hot enough ( have no idea where the gun was with respect to the heat source) you could have had a pretty dangerous situation.

[Bassic]

30. Throw down gun?

Nevermind I get it.

[WCGreen]

5. I thought everyone had guns in Texas.....

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. I guess they do, and they don't remember where they hide them either

:crazy:

[WCGreen]

11. So many guns...

So few heaters....

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. I wonder what would have happened if I had used the heater

... before I found the gun. It was loaded, do bullets blow up if they ge hot?

[WCGreen]

16. I believe they can....

At least I remember a Little Rascals episode where one of the rascals put some of his daddy's bullits in the pot bellied stove and boy howdy, there was shooting' and cursing and people getting a bullit in the arse...

What fun we had in the 30's....

Sigh....

[GOPisEvil]

13. I bet it belongs to the possums!

:scared:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. They're planning an uprising.

I now have skunks everywhere, too. I think the possums recruited them as gas warfare specialist. :scared:

[GOPisEvil]

24. Invade them! They have WMDs!

:patriot:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

26. But the real question is... Do they have oil?

:P

[GOPisEvil]

29. It's Texas...they might!

:D

[Shell Beau]

17. That is strange! What does one do with a random gun?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

21. I'm not sure yet

It's not like I was in the market for one or anything. :shrug:

Why couldn't it have been stash of jewels or something cool?

[Shell Beau]

25. Really. Something you could actually use!

Guns scare me, jewels make me happy!

[Eagle_Eye]

20. It is your gun now

Have it checked out by a gunsmith and happy shooting!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

23. Getting it checked out by a gunsmith is a good idea

I unloaded it. That was the end of my knowledge as far as gun care goes. :)

[Ptah]

27. Isn't that a Beatles song?

Happiness is a warm gun.