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Some people have all the luck

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Via the Phoenix (Arizona) Police:

Homeowners in a valley home were digging a hole for a tree when they dug up more than they asked for! They found a duffle bag with rusted rifles and handguns inside. They called #PHXPD and gave them to detectives, who will investigate if these firearms were used in any crimes.

The guns look to be a legit Colt 933– if not, it is at least an SBR– along with a Galil, a Micro UZI, and a MAC 10/11 of some sort. Curious mix. Would be interesting to see if they still work after their time underground, for overall cache purposes. I’d bet that of all the above, the Galil would be the most functional.

Keep in mind that guns left to the arid environment of the Southwest often hold up remarkably well. A case in point is the famous “Forgotten Winchester” discovered in 2014 leaning against a juniper tree in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park. The ammunition in the rifle dated to the 1887-1911 time frame.

Meet ‘Pepette’ and ‘Alice’ a pair of Anglo-French sleeping beauties

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During World War II the Allies dropped literally tons of arms and munitions to local resistance forces across occupied Europe to give the Germans a little heartburn. Though squirreled away over 70 years ago, caches left behind by various underground groups have popped up in Denmark, France, and Latvia in recent months, as have individual arms buried during the war for one reason or another.

Speaking of France, a couple doing home renovation near Quarré-les-Tombes found three STENs, a pile of BREN gun mags (but no BREN gun, hmmmm), as well as a crate or two of Mills bombs and ammo, all secreted under a granite floor.

Best yet, two of the British-made 9mm hoses had names scratched it to them: Pepette and Alice.

They have nice early-type cocking handles on them too. Such a shame. They seem to have held up well after all these years.

More in my column at Guns.com.

Caching done right

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The Latvian-based Legenda relic hunter group found five sealed artillery powder cans while poking around the forests. When unearthed the munitions found inside led the group to conclude it was a WWII-era cache for saboteurs left behind by the Germans for individuals unknown.

The cache was explosives-heavy with some interesting items including magnetic limpet mines (at bottom) coal torpedos (center) and plenty of good old demo charges

The cache was explosives-heavy with some interesting items including magnetic limpet mines (at bottom) coal torpedoes (center) and plenty of good old demo charges

Sure, all the stuff could just be planted for the photo op, but that seems pretty elaborate so we’d like to wish that the magic of it being buried for the better part of a century is the real deal.

The Latvians had no love lost for towards the Soviets (still don’t) and many signed up for the Waffen SS in mass and as auxiliaries to the German military and field police. A lot of that hearkened back to the fact that the remnants of Kaiser Willy’s forces helped keep the Reds out back in 1918-19, earning the country independence and once Uncle Joe rushed back in 1940 with a heavy hand, things kinda soured from there.

So whether the cache was meant for “stay behind” forces when the Germans left in 1945, or was assembled by the Soviets as a deniable supply for partisans of their own, is up to interpretation.

Ahh, German made abrasive. Pour this in the crankcase of your local T-34 sitting at the depot..

Ahh, German-made abrasive. Pour this in the crankcase of your local T-34 sitting at the depot..

As the contents are absent on German weapons (though contains some commercial German made blaster’s tools), they contain French munitions dated to 1934 (which the Soviets wouldn’t have had access to but the Nazis captured in bulk in 1940) as well as Polish and Soviet made grenades made pre-1939 that also fell into German hands in quantity during the Blitzkrieg years– all kinda verifying the logic behind the relic hunters.

Of course, they could also be a CIA supplied cache for resistance groups fighting the Soviets in the forests in the 1950s made to be deniable as a German-WWII era set, as there is not a single U.S.-made or post-1945 item in the lot…just saying…

A French M1892 8x27mm revolver still in the wrapper, all cosmo'd up. The rounds with the gun are dated 1934

A French M1892 8x27mm revolver still in the wrapper, all cosmo’d up. The rounds with the gun are dated 1934 and are SPM (French military arsenal) marked.

For a detailed break down and more images, go to my column at Guns.com

Hiding your guns in plain sight

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There are an estimated 140 million guns in the US and it’s important for each of these to stay secure. Sure there are traditional gun safes, cabinets and racks, but many of these are obvious and easy to defeat by a skilled burglar. That’s why you can add an extra layer of protection to your gun collection by hiding them– often in plain sight.

We’ve all walked past those displays of refrigerator sized gun safes and marveled at the thickness of the walls, how heavy the doors are, and how many huge moving deadbolts the door secures with. The problem is, most of these safes are meant to protect the insides from fire and casual theft, not to stop an all-out assault on your firearm collection by someone who knows what they are doing.

In fact, most of your basic safes are so simple that a kid can pick them with household items in just a few minutes.

Beautiful glass gun cabinets are even easier to penetrate as most use only a simple cam-lock to close the doors and, of course, have large panels of very breakable glass.

The solution could be in some cover and concealment

behind painting

Read the rest in my column at Firearms Talk.com

Hidden Community Guns

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You and your friends live in an area that you cant own a gun due to legal reasons? Maybe cant afford one of your own? Get a community gun…..

Waka Flocka is the name of a rapper. But to these men, the phrase described something else.

The community gun.

Hidden and shared by a small group of people who use them when needed, and are always sure to return them, such guns appear to be rising in number in New York, according to the police. It is unclear why. The economy? Times are tough — not everyone can afford a gun.

Where do you hide it?

“Wheel wells,” Mr. Talty said. “The bottom of a light pole.”

“Garbage pails are a big one,” said Capt. Richard Dee, with the Police Department’s Gang Division. “A hallway radiator.”

“Behind some bushes or under a building,” said State Senator Malcolm A. Smith, who has visited the scenes of shootings in his Queens district that were linked to community guns. “Somewhere where you can essentially borrow it for an hour if you need to use it.

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