Residents trade guns for groceries at San Fernando Valley gun buyback event

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14. We had something similar happen with a Thompson

A couple that lived next door to a woman I worked with was renovating an older home in a local suburb.

They tore out the back of a closet to make a hallway and found a 1928 Thompson, Cutts Compensator and all, in good shape (dry and heated storage) with a 50 round drum mag and 4 stick mags, along with some boxes of old .45 ACP walled up behind the plaster.

The ammo boxes were dated back to the late '30's.

Sadly, they "turned it over to the local police" for disposal instead of calling me to "help" them out.

Now it's either sitting in the Chief's closet or in the police armory, "just in case" they ever need the firepower. I'm pretty sure that it didn't find it's way to the chop saw or blast furnace #5 at Inland Steel.