I remember a similar story where a woman showed up in St Louis at a gun buyback program with her grandfathers 1928 Thompson he had bought mail order back in the day. A collector noticed the gun and tried to contact the owner, the cops told the collector to leave - so he did and went straight to the local news station. The reporters got involved and the chief of police had to come clean. The woman didnt want the gun back, so arrangements were made where the gun was sold to a collector for a fair price...
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