A Florida man took his grandson magnet fishing. Police are now investigating what they reeled in

[babylonsister]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/us/florida-sniper-rifle-magnet-fishing-trnd/index.html

A Florida man took his grandson magnet fishing. Police are now investigating what they reeled in
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
Updated 8:53 AM ET, Thu February 3, 2022



(CNN)A Florida man and his grandson couldn't believe their eyes when they reeled in more than just some scrap metal and bottle caps during a magnet fishing weekend trip.

Duane Smith and his 11-year-old grandson, Allen Cadwalader, were out on a magnet fishing trip on January 30 in Homestead, a suburb of Miami, Florida, when within five minutes of their arrival, Cadwalader reeled in two sniper rifle receivers and bolt carrier groups wrapped in shrink wrap, Smith told CNN.

This was their first time magnet fishing, Smith said, and he chose a bridge with a canal near where he normally goes hiking.

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"With magnet fishing every time I cast out or every other time I'm coming up with something," Smith said. "There's a bottle cap or you know, $7,000 sniper rifle."

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/us/florida-sniper-rifle-magnet-fishing-trnd/index.html

[Ohio Joe]

1. oh... I bet it's just FL trying to arm the fish

[madinmaryland]

2. Good fish, bad fish, red fish, blue fish. As long as there is a good fish with a gun...

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. That's the only thing to stop a bad fish with a gun. . .

[dchill]

3. Wondering what a $7000 rifle did to deserve...

...being tossed into a canal. Must have been bad!

[Hugin]

5. When I spent some time there in the mid-aughts I never returned after a walk along the parkway...

without at least one crushed burner cell phone I'd found along the way.

Nokia made a fortune.

[IcyPeas]

6. things I never knew existed: magnet fishing /nt

[ornotna]

7. Imagine the one that got away

[krispos42]

8. Based on the weight and price estimated in the article...

... they were probably semiautomatic .50-caliber sniper rifles, the Barrett Lite Fifty or similar.

The ground-off serial numbers are a huge indicator of illegal activity. The fisherman did right by getting the police involved.