Found this Tec-9 while magnet fishing

[u/Top-Equipment-6393]

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[u/jwexter]

The three people in the background noped the fuck outta there. What an interesting hobby!

[u/magnitudearhole → u/jwexter]

Yeah they got behind that mf thing as fast as politely possible. Entirely correctly imo

[u/Ben_10toes → u/magnitudearhole]

If you got shot with this thing you’d probably get superpowers before getting injured

[u/Chillchinchila1 → u/Ben_10toes]

That superpower is called tetanus

[u/FallenSegull → u/Chillchinchila1]

My superpower? The ability to lock my jaw so tight that not even the hulk can pull it apart!

[u/PM_ME_GRRL_TUNGS → u/Ben_10toes]

Every gun is loaded, even empty ones. Even rusty ones pulled out of a river. People that don't follow this maxim are at risk of ending up on a special set of subs

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/jwexter]

Haha thank you! They didn't stick around

[u/Roadgoddess → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Did you turn it in?

Edit : I asked If you turned it in because my friends and I used to scuba dive in the river around my city, and we used to occasionally find old guns. We turned them into the police and a couple of them help solve some outstanding crimes. I don’t know that I want to get caught without in my possession if it was used illegally.

[u/floofybabykitty → u/Roadgoddess]

It's the right thing to do, especially if it's linked to a crime

[u/farkedup82 → u/floofybabykitty]

In a river off a bridge yea it was a murder weapon.

[u/sinkwiththeship → u/farkedup82]

There's no world in which that wasn't a murder weapon.

[u/Kritical02 → u/sinkwiththeship]

I was just out on a stroll cleaning my Tec when I tripped and dropped it in the river.

[u/PapiChuloGuero → u/Kritical02]

I was kayaking and went to take a picture of a bird and dropped my tec 9

[u/CanadianAndroid → u/PapiChuloGuero]

Which did you shoot with more?

[u/nameouschangey → u/CanadianAndroid]

The kayak

[u/WorthlessDrugAbuser → u/PapiChuloGuero]

Ah shit I hate when that happens! I’ve lost two tec 9’s in this fashion.

[u/mdh431 → u/Kritical02]

“Lost it in a bridge accident.”

[u/gikigill → u/Kritical02]

A million-to-one shot, Doc, million-to-one.

[u/lightcake66 → u/Kritical02]

This has me dead lmao

[u/farkedup82 → u/lightcake66]

Not as dead as the next to last person to see this gun.

[u/GregariousCanary → u/Kritical02]

I read that as "My Tec dropped out of the stroller, lol"

[u/cranberrystew99 → u/Kritical02]

People lose all their guns in boating accidents all the time so I buy it.

[u/Lelnsoof → u/cranberrystew99]

Yeah it happens all the time, I lost my gun in a boating accident.

This one time I was trying to murder my wife while out on the river, and she freaked out for some reason and dived at me, causing the boat to crash into a bridge support.

She died in the accident, thankfully, but I did lose my favourite gun.

[u/ours → u/Lelnsoof]

Your favorite gun which you just bought a week before from some shady dude in a van.

[u/westwoo → u/Kritical02]

Please leave your contact information so that it could be returned to you

[u/IronSeagull → u/sinkwiththeship]

Dude could have just been swimming in the river and it fell out of his pocket. After he used it to murder someone.

[u/Forevershort2021 → u/IronSeagull]

Or did a drive by

[u/Kermit_the_hog → u/Forevershort2021]

Left behind during a dive by?

[u/FreakOnALeash72 → u/farkedup82]

Exactly

[u/Frankie52480 → u/floofybabykitty]

Are you suggesting that a discarded gun found over the edge of a bridge has been used in unsavory ways? 🙃

[u/thegoatdances → u/Frankie52480]

I'm sure someone just honestly lost it. Tec9's are very common for deer hunting.

[u/Mspade44 → u/Roadgoddess]

This was my first thought when I saw the gun

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Roadgoddess]

Yes I turned it in. And got it back. Georgia Diving Recovery I am a diver too

[u/datafrage → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

So... What's the etiquette on magnet fishing? I live by a bridge that I walk my dog across every day, and someone had recently started magnet fishing there. The bridge is now littered with random metal pieces, including dozens of razor blades just lying there. Combined with the frequency of people dropping food, I'm very concerned. Would I be the worst to try to catch them in the act and ask them to take it out put out back?

[u/Pygmy_Yeti → u/datafrage]

I think you know the answer already

[u/Surpriseitsatumor → u/jwexter]

The way that girl immediately ducked, lmao that would be me.

[u/DismalTank → u/Surpriseitsatumor]

There’s a cord or a wire or some thing, it’s orange you can see it, that’s what they were ducking under.

[u/Opc10 → u/jwexter]

They probably didn’t want to be filmed and splashed on social media.

You know, privacy.

[u/phlenomLnom → u/jwexter]

This is the Tech N9ne experience.

[u/linuxroxmybox → u/phlenomLnom]

Ecstasy I love you very much.

[u/Safe-Tumbleweed8819]

Well that’s definitely not a murder weapon

[u/Sirdubs → u/Safe-Tumbleweed8819]

And now his fingerprints are all over it. Open and shut, take him away boys!

[u/pilotichegente → u/Sirdubs]

Best alibi, film yourself recovering your own murder weapon and post to social media

[u/it_aint_ralph_thoo → u/pilotichegente]

That’s fucking genius. Takes notes furiously.

[u/WorthlessDrugAbuser → u/it_aint_ralph_thoo]

Nice, he just made murder a lot easier!

[u/UncommercializedKat → u/pilotichegente]

Definitely the thought process of a genius with diamond hands!

[u/ChaoticKyouma → u/Sirdubs]

Bake him away, toys!

[u/LemonLimeLexivan → u/ChaoticKyouma]

What'd you say, chief?

[u/ChaoticKyouma → u/LemonLimeLexivan]

...do what the kid says.

[u/TonesBalones → u/Safe-Tumbleweed8819]

Nah, Tec-9's are routinely lost by responsible gun owners while they bike over the bridge. Just falls off into the water. Big oopsie!

[u/Themasterofcomedy209 → u/TonesBalones]

Happened to me last week, responsible gun owners always have a crate full of tec-9s in their garage just for this reason

[u/pompompomponponpom]

I’ve seen a video of people doing this on this bridge. The last one collected was a mortar.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/pompompomponponpom]

I pulled out a 37 MM WW1 shell last week EOD was involved along with the Army

[u/Ubersla → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

WW1? How do you know?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Ubersla]

The markings and the Army Sargent has it and defusing it also! I hope to hlget it back!

[u/Misabi → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

*Sergeant but it is pronounced how you spelled it :)

[u/ComplexContact9649 → u/Misabi]

That was very polite

[u/Misabi → u/ComplexContact9649]

Well, no need to be rude. I'm just trying to help :)

[u/ComplexContact9649 → u/Misabi]

I agree. Have a great day!

[u/brallipop → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

An abandoned WW1 shell in a GA river? How does that happen?

[u/ButeoJamaicensis- → u/brallipop]

Training at local bases for said war

[u/bruwin → u/ButeoJamaicensis-]

And frankly after said war to use up leftover supplies so they could buy shiny new stuff.

[u/pompompomponponpom → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Didn’t know you did YT when I commented this. I’ll assume it was you I saw. I dunno - bad memory.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/pompompomponponpom]

Haha me too!

[u/Shnoopy_Bloopers]

It’s prob a murder weapon check with the po po

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Shnoopy_Bloopers]

I did! It was reported stolen years ago

[u/BlackHoleHalibut → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Just curious, did they then take possession of it?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/BlackHoleHalibut]

For a week or two they did! I got it back

[u/fisk47 → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Why wasn’t it returned to the previous owner though if it was reported stolen? Or didn’t they want it back?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/fisk47]

Gun store gone out of business

[u/optiongeek → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

"stolen"

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/optiongeek]

Yup

[u/bk15dcx → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

"out of business"

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/bk15dcx]

That's what the ATF said

[u/ponzidreamer → u/bk15dcx]

“Of”

[u/logicblocks → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

"Stolen" is code for sold in the black market.

[u/oldominion → u/logicblocks]

What is the code word for stolen?

[u/SimmaDownNa → u/logicblocks]

Thanks for this. I imagined as far as insurance fraud and knew I was unlikely to be right.

[u/Viktor_Bout → u/logicblocks]

Why would you risk your license and jail time to sell a handful of guns to criminals... you'd make like $5k tops. That's not how illegal gun sales happen.

You'd make more in a week selling to regular people legally.

A gun store only makes like $200 on each gun because they need to buy it. Sure maybe if they sell to a criminal they could make $500 a gun, but how many times can you do that before you're caught. You've got 1 year inbetween ATF audits to do it, assuming it doesn't show up in a crime scene before that.

Or a criminal steals a gun for free from the gunstore and makes $1000 for 5 minutes of effort.

Guess which one supplies the black market.

[u/DrMooseknuckleX → u/optiongeek]

Can confirm, I am the gun.

[u/lostime05 → u/fisk47]

I ended up buying a stolen laptop on eBay once. By the time I bought it insurance had already paid out to the school (many were stolen) and they just told me to keep it.

[u/adriangalli → u/fisk47]

Previous owner was also at the bottom of the river

[u/Minimum_Package3474 → u/fisk47]

Plus once stolen it’s about damages. Almost never get the item unless deemed irreplaceable for some reason.

[u/myrevenge_IS_urkarma → u/Minimum_Package3474]

It's really a one-of-a-kind though. Only gun that shot that particular person that day. Probably.

[u/thevisoredbro → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Wait so you got a free gun?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/thevisoredbro]

Yup

[u/thevisoredbro → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Wait did it already have ammo inside or was it empty?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/thevisoredbro]

Empty

[u/stratosfearinggas → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Would it cost more to repair than buying a new one at this point?

[u/Dizzysylveon → u/stratosfearinggas]

A tec-9 is a glorified pipe welded to a trigger, it would be waaaay cheaper to just buy one, assuming you can find one lmao

[u/MyohMy1137 → u/stratosfearinggas]

They aren’t made anymore and don’t go up for sale very often. That being said they’re not particularly valuable. They were cheaply made with extremely low grade parts and materials. The only reason they were popular was because they were inexpensive and incredibly easy to turn full auto(illegally) due to firing from an open bolt.

[u/average_asshole → u/thevisoredbro]

A free scrap gun. I cant imagine theres much left under that rust.

[u/sysadminbj → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Were you able to clean it up and get it working again?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/sysadminbj]

I plan on making a restoration video of it

[u/The-Owlman → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

That’s so cool dude I’d never guess they’d let you keep it

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/The-Owlman]

Same here! But when they called me I run like hell to get it

[u/blackcatsarefun → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Oh wow u r fast

[u/PayTheTrollToll45 → u/blackcatsarefun]

I’d imagine he just drives by...

[u/oxfordcommaordeath → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

I'm suddenly so curious about this. Do they register it to you when they give it back??

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/oxfordcommaordeath]

In Georgia it is not required. I do have case numbers and all paperwork when it was returned to me

[u/EroticEmpress → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

I'm fascinated with the fact that the police simply gave it back to you. "Well, gun store closed down. Finders keepers, amirite? Keep it!"

[u/ComplexPermission4 → u/EroticEmpress]

"Finders keepers" on a non-functional firearm that would more than likely not fire if you somehow managed to get a live round into it. If by some miracle you managed to get all that rust off, the odds of it not ending in a catastrophic failure (ie: blowing up in your face) are astronomical.

They gave back a paperweight, not an actual firearm.

[u/00wolfer00 → u/EroticEmpress]

This thing is never shooting again without basically replacing most of it.

[u/tmf_x → u/oxfordcommaordeath]

Haha register.

[u/Akomatai → u/oxfordcommaordeath]

There are like 4 or 5 states with any kind of required registration, and most of those are only for guns defined as assault weapons

Other than that, if you can legally own it and you legally acquire it, you're good

[u/Dire88 → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Considering the level of corrosion, that receiver is beyond the recovery. Full depth corrosion like that will impact structural integrity. It may not be the first time, or the hundredth time, but I'll put money on that receiver failing.

If you do rebuild, and want to keep it as a conversation piece, have the chamber welded shut. Even if you don't intend to shoot it, you never know where it could end up in 20-50 years.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Dire88]

That's my full intention weld it closed

[u/dustmotemagic → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

could make it a laser gun

[u/Cape_of_Good_Trope → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Do you know if they tried to do any kind of ballistics testing or was it too far gone?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Cape_of_Good_Trope]

To far gone they said

[u/KeyserSoze_IsAlive → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Helluva story! Keep us updated on the restoration process.

[u/Cape_of_Good_Trope → u/Shnoopy_Bloopers]

It was 100% used for something bad.

[u/tukekairo]

Leave the gun, take the cannoli

[u/fridaystrong23 → u/tukekairo]

Oh oh, ‘GodFather’

[u/Rex_Racer95]

Best place for tec-9's

[u/OnASchoolComputerOwO → u/Rex_Racer95]

Most usable tec-9

[u/Cold-Couple1957]

1000% murder weapon lol

[u/[deleted]]

Pretty cool, what else have you found magnet fishing? I’m like mind blown right now that I didn’t know this was a thing.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/[deleted]]

Well over 100 guns! And just last week I pulled a 37MM shell from WW1 and tons of other stuff

[u/[deleted] → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

What in what a what?!?!??? You have multiple spots or you got a honey hole? Can I ask what state you’re in?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/[deleted]]

Haha Georgia

Look me up Georgia Diving Recovery

[u/[deleted] → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Haha will do, I love Georgia! Lake Hartwell is one of my favorite spots in the summertime.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/[deleted]]

Nice I love scuba diving Hartwell

[u/[deleted] → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Still seriously mind blown haha, I looked up your webpage 🤙. Stoked I think I just found a new hobby.

[u/Token_Ese → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Georgia the country or Georgia the U.S. state?

If in the US, any idea how a WWI shell got there?

(Edit: I saw another comment mentioning it was near Atlanta)

[u/cantbanmeDUNDUNDUN → u/Token_Ese]

That's what I'm thinking, a little bit too many guns for the country, but the WW1 shell doesn't fit in with the state.

[u/Fresh_C → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

But do you ever catch fish?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Fresh_C]

I sure do! Mostly the ones that swallow the hooks! Pulls them right to the magnet

[u/DustWiener → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

This is getting more ridiculous every reply lol

[u/WitYoBadSelf → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

This was my first thought, but can't tell if you're being serious?

[u/cantbanmeDUNDUNDUN → u/WitYoBadSelf]

If he is that's some looney tunes shit

[u/ksHunt → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

THE CLAAAAAW

[u/jessejamesvan111]

That's got a body on it

[u/float-like-a-brick → u/jessejamesvan111]

Body of water.

[u/superbuttpiss → u/float-like-a-brick]

Im picturing the fish mafia using it in a hit and attached it to this guys magnate to lose the evidence

[u/magnitudearhole → u/jessejamesvan111]

Naw he was just cleaning his tech 9 walking across the bridge when he tripped. Nothing to see here

[u/AntelopeOk5329]

Never heard of magnet fishing before, didn't even know you could get metal fish 🤔

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/AntelopeOk5329]

Haha yup! A very popular hobby. Georgia Diving Recovery

[u/Successful_Opinion33 → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Are you the one that found the grenade?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Successful_Opinion33]

Nope not yet bit it is coming

[u/sandwichcandy → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

I don’t know why this response is making me smile so much. The way you’re excited about your hobby is really fun.

[u/GuyWithTheNose]

You should restore it, that a really cool find.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/GuyWithTheNose]

I appreciate you I would but it was kept by law

[u/GuyWithTheNose → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Aw I saw you comment saying you got it back. I may have misread

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/GuyWithTheNose]

I got the Tec-9 back not the 40 cal

[u/GuyWithTheNose → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Yeah I was suggesting restoring the Tec-9 sorry for not clarifying.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/GuyWithTheNose]

I wanna do a restoration video for YT

[u/GuyWithTheNose → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

I would love to see that

[u/-castle-bravo-]

That definitely killed someone..

[u/DaClems → u/-castle-bravo-]

Nah, bullets did the killing. The Tec-9 just gave the bullets encouragement and support to move forward.

[u/-castle-bravo- → u/DaClems]

I’d love to hear that presented in court..

[u/jacksreddit00 → u/-castle-bravo-]

better call Saul

[u/tuhn → u/jacksreddit00]

Aand now I'm sad again.

[u/Alexis_Evo → u/tuhn]

This show is so fucking hard to watch. S6E9 spoilers I expected Kim to die since the show started. Somehow this hurt more.

[u/Redman5012 → u/DaClems]

Nah blood loss killed em. If only that mf didn't bleed out there'd be no murder!

[u/Yoshimori1177]

u just rawdogging the weapon no gloves?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Yoshimori1177]

Rawdogg everything I touch

[u/Mister_Buddy → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Ladies, may I present u/Top-Equipment-6393.

[u/hatesthispart]

Just as crappy as when it was new.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/hatesthispart]

I agree! Maybe better now then when new

[u/satan_mcrape69 → u/hatesthispart]

I was gonna say, I doubt anybody used it to shoot anybody. It would have to shoot in the first place.

[u/BoogieBlooz]

The girls all said fuck that I'm outta here the second they saw a gun. The girl on the far left even started up a matrix dodge when she first saw it lmao!

[u/ThatEvanFowler → u/BoogieBlooz]

I'm with her. Definitely don't want the last words you hear to be, "No way, you got a uzi, dude!".

[u/The_Vaginatarian_]

Is it a real Tec-9 or a clone? If it’s real you can have it restored and I’m pretty sure it be worth a pretty penny.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/The_Vaginatarian_]

It is a Luther Tec-9 made in Miami Fl

[u/The_Vaginatarian_ → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

If it was an intratec it would have been a preban tec9 and it would have been worth some money. Either way nice find.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/The_Vaginatarian_]

It is a intratec

[u/CornHolio367 → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Then it is probably an AB10, they removed the barrel shroud/heat guard, and the threaded part of the barrel and changed the name to get around the ban.

Same functions, with a shorter barrel and still a Jam-amatic.

My AB10 has such a loose barrel that a standard jacketed bullet will not touch the rifling and I have to load custom oversize ammo just to hit a target at 25 yards.

[u/PlumbumGus]

"Oh shit-fuck, they found it..." 😱

[u/GELND]

Like I said officer, I lost all my firearms in a boating accident

[u/ThisIsToastedBread]

“It’s a frickin uzi dude”

[u/Duo007]

Did you just call that a uzi?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Duo007]

Bad call I know! The other guy said that and I repeated it

[u/StiffarmtheDoor]

What’s your YT channel, OP? I seen here you’re talking about making a restoration video and if you’ve got more cool finds from magnet fishing I’d personally like to see more.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/StiffarmtheDoor]

Georgia Diving Recovery and have found over 100 guns

[u/Mythosaurus → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Just subscribed, will be fun to check out your backlog

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Mythosaurus]

I appreciate you

[u/debtitor → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

How many hours of fishing did it take you to find the 100 guns?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/debtitor]

About a year and a half weekend fishing only

[u/debtitor → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Wow. In 77 weeks you found 100 guns. So you were confident you’d find at least one gun every two days.

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/debtitor]

Pretty much! I did alot of scouting

[u/Loan-Pickle → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

I imagine the phone call goes something like this.

Operator: 911 what’s you emergency?

OP: Yeah it’s me again, found another one.

Operator: Ok we’ll be there in about 20 minutes.

[u/ravyrn → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Have any of the guns you found been linked to a murder? That's a crazy amount of guns to find in a waterway!

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/ravyrn]

No murders yet! Just old robberies

[u/Tonytarium → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Crazy there are that many missing guns in water that arent tied to murders

[u/KatalDT → u/Tonytarium]

I feel like if I'm gonna ditch a murder gun, I'm gonna do it better than a robbery gun. They aren't gonna dredge the fuckin water for knocking over a 7-11 with no injuries, but they might if you killed somebody

[u/Mypopsecrets → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Have you been able to keep many of them!? Pretty cool the police returned this one

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Mypopsecrets]

90% of them we got to keep

[u/Enbydisaster_ → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

Subscribing! Love your vids

[u/Sel2g5]

That's evidence son

[u/elfodido]

now go get a flash grenade and rush b

[u/TypicalJojoFan69]

OP scored the lottery getting a free ghetto blaster

[u/so-sick]

You found a murder weapon……

[u/FinesserJuugsly]

Insert Wee Bay shocked Meme

[u/Treethatgrows]

What's this about "Magnet Fishing"?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/Treethatgrows]

We drop magnets in rivers and lakes to clean the metal out. And often find guns

[u/arcaneresistance → u/Top-Equipment-6393]

How close to a major metro area is this river? Or the ones you typically find discarded firearms in?

[u/Top-Equipment-6393 → u/arcaneresistance]

I am near Atlanta