http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/05/23/4201150-sun.html

The article if you don't read it basically says. Cops found a gun buried in a playground, it took them two days to find with a metal detector. The gun had been there since some time in 2004. So it has been buried in the ground for 3 years in Canada freezing winters and warm summers.

My issue is that "outraged parents" are saying some kid could of found the gun and shot himself/someone else. I say bullshit, not only would the gun not of been found unless there was some construction there, but also I would think that the gun wouldn't fire or would take someone much stronger then a five year to pull the trigger. It was a 9mm Beretta. Any thought from gun owners?

It might have still shot, but I don't think so.

I think in double action the trigger pull is about 10 pounds and 4 pounds single action. If there was one in the chamber and the hammer back you might get one shot out of it.

Is 10lbs. and 4lbs. for gun in good working order? Not something spending several years in the frozen/thawed/wet ground.

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/05/23/4201150-sun.html

The article if you don't read it basically says. Cops found a gun buried in a playground, it took them two days to find with a metal detector. The gun had been there since some time in 2004. So it has been buried in the ground for 3 years in Canada freezing winters and warm summers.

My issue is that "outraged parents" are saying some kid could of found the gun and shot himself/someone else. I say bullshit, not only would the gun not of been found unless there was some construction there, but also I would think that the gun wouldn't fire or would take someone much stronger then a five year to pull the trigger. It was a 9mm Beretta. Any thought from gun owners?

well, after three years it is unlikely that the gun would fire, but keep in mind that at one point in time, that gun was just buried there, which makes two things possible:

1--the gun had not been sitting very long at all in that ground, making it more likely that the gun was useable.
2--there was a fresh hole there at one point, which could have aroused the curiosity of some children.

When the gun was first placed there, it could have posed a bigger problem.

Yeah I don't think it would shoot either. But I wouldn't let my kids have it.

Now if it was a glock instead of a beretta...

Yeah all of that shit is internal. A Glock probably would shoot.