# I lost my fire arm collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 10, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738 "2013-01-10T13:03:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/1 "2013-01-10T13:03:41Z")
I regret to relate this story: 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. ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/2 "2013-01-10T13:11:00Z")
Uhm? Thank you for being a responsible gun owner? ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/3 "2013-01-10T13:13:05Z")
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? Is this a parody of something? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/4 "2013-01-10T13:23:54Z")
Reminds me of a news story I just read about a young man who died playing Russian roulette with four friends. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/5 "2013-01-10T13:27:57Z")
What a coincidence! Pretty much the same thing happened to all of my guns! Except mine were stolen by gypsies, who then escaped by boat. Which sank. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/6 "2013-01-10T13:32:03Z")
Wow, when Obama says executive action he means executive ACTION. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/7 "2013-01-10T13:35:18Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Is this a parody of something? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/8 "2013-01-10T13:37:52Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > 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. > > Sorry Mr. Government official, I no longer have anything to register. Thanks, **lieu** , I was out of the loop. I must not own enough guns to qualify for the in jokes. I need to go scuba diving in **Sigene** ’s lake, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/9 "2013-01-10T13:47:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/10 "2013-01-10T13:50:53Z")
That’s amazing cuz just the other day I was doing some under ice diving in a lake that was frozen over except for one spot… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/11 "2013-01-10T13:51:39Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > I regret to relate this story: > > 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. 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? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/12 "2013-01-10T13:53:59Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I must not own enough guns to qualify for the in jokes. I need to go scuba diving in **Sigene** ’s lake, I guess. You know what’s really cool? Spear guns! ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/13 "2013-01-10T13:55:43Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > 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. Another place to go diving! 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.” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/14 "2013-01-10T14:10:24Z")
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…” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/15 "2013-01-10T14:13:05Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > 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.” That kind of reminds me of Sons of Guns’ Will Hayden and daughter Stephanie losing their FFL. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/16 "2013-01-10T14:14:58Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > 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? Hazardous how? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/17 "2013-01-10T14:16:59Z")
I suspect to trigger fish. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/18 "2013-01-10T14:18:16Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > 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. Oh no! Were you killed in the accident? ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/19 "2013-01-10T14:21:05Z")
Why kind of gun would you suggest for a muskellunge who wants to defend his family against outdoorsmen? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738/20 "2013-01-10T14:24:32Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I suspect to trigger fish. If they ban triggerfish, criminals would just use swordfish. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-fire-arm-collection/646738.md?page=2)