I'm surprised nobody considered what's going to happen when the SOB who stashed it in the bushes comes looking for his toy?
Is it a blackmarket item from a crook? Or does it belong to some negligent officer who lost it when it flopped out of his flatbed when he hit a bump?
What happens when someone tells him, "Yeah I saw some kid the other day with something under his coat. He lives over there."?
The police and certainly criminals in some countries are probably not as open minded to take your good will into consideration if you were to turn it in. I can't guarantee that turning in the weapon to authorities would be the smart thing to do. The dumb part was when you took it home. I'd bury it if I were you. Don't destroy it in case its rightful owner finds you.
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"I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence." - Mahatma Ghandi
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