I lost my entire outfit of firearms and ammunition out on the frozen lake. I thought it would make a nice set of pictures. I drug my entire collection (which wasn’t much) of long guns, handguns, magazines, ammunition…pretty much everything I owned I think, out onto the ice. I schlepped them way out there, it was really tiring. I went back to the car to get my camera, and when I returned they were gone. What I thought was solid ice must not have been, there was water and broken ice where the equipment used to be.
I’m really bummed that I have to tell you all this, thanks for your support.
A place where you had been standing, putting guns down, walking around, suddenly turned to mush while you were away for a few minutes? The middle of a lake seemed like an ideal place to take a picture of your guns?
It’s kind of a long standing joke among gun owners that if the goverment ever attempts to exert what they/we perceive as excessive control like gun registration, many of them/us will claim to have just had a most unfortunate accident like ferrying our guns across a lake when all of a sudden the boat capsized and we lost everything. Modify accident parameters as you see fit.
Sorry Mr. Government official, darn it but I no longer have anything to register.
Me, I was skydiving over Lake Mead with every firearm I own when I tried to point them all downward and fire simultaneously to see if it would push me back up into the sky. Best I can figure something went inexplicably wrong.
Good luck when you file that police report. You are going to file a police report about the lost weapons and the inadvertent dumping of hazardous material into the lake, right?
For some reason this reminds me of something I heard on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show many years ago. In the middle of a bunch of calls about politics, someone called in with a question about some specific model of gun. Liddy very knowledgably and articulately answered the question, then said something close to: “Of course, as a convicted felon, I don’t own any guns. Mrs. Liddy, on the other hand, has a fantastic collection.”
This is how I wish we had handled Regan’s funeral: “well, we thought it would be nice to have one last photo of Ronnie in the outdoors, we put him on the lake and when we came back with the camera…”