I can’t imagine keeping something that didn’t belong to me......I used a found bank envelope as a good lesson on right/wrong for my GF’s grandson. He and I were walking in a parking lot and I noticed a bank envelope. I picked it up, opened it found not only $1,500 but a withdrawal slip with thegirl’s name on it. Grandson said ‘Wow Bruce! Your’e lucky!!” I explained to him we could not keep it, because we knew where it came from and who belonged to. I ALSO explained if that same bank envelope did NOT have any way of verifying whose it was, you could rightfully keep it. He said “Why don’t people take it into the store?” I explained there was no way to tell who ended up with the money. I am not wrong.
Just like using a Metal Detector, if there is no way to trace the Owner you have a point.
I believe they have Laws in place where something surrendered to the Police will be given to the Finder if nobody claims the Property within 90 days or so. Then again, I’m becoming a bit jaded.
I know some of those Firearms that Idiots turn in at those Buyback might end up in a Cops Collection, not a Blast Furnace.
If I ever buy a Lake and find a Cache of Firearms at the bottom, I’m keeping them. LOL