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So I’ll disagree, a bit, with the other answers.You say this was in the woods.Lot’s of hunters lose firearms in the woods. Happens on a somewhat regular basis. They set a rifle down, get turned around and can’t find the tree they leaned it against.If you just found a hunting rifle leaning up against a tree out in the backcountry, you probably found such a gun.Now, I’d still take it to the police as simple lost property. But there is no need for histrionics or freaking out or calling 911. No, your prints on a gun that you gave to the police aren’t going to be used against you. You aren’t going to be tossed in jail.Now, if you found a handgun lying in a gutter in Chicago, I might proceed differently.

I can help with this seeing as how I am a manager at a pawnshop!Whenever we take in an item, we take the persons info and also info on the item. Brand, model, serial, etc. Every night that info gets uploaded into a site called leadsonline and the police have access to it. They can see what we took in on a particular day and the persons info who sold/pawned the item.I assume that when someone makes a stolen property report they give a description. That might include a model number and a serial number for said stolen item. They input the info into that site and if they get a hit then they call us asking to put it on hold and typically come in the next 2–3 days to confiscate. We obviously know who brought it in, seeing as how we took their info and is in the system, so we then lock that persons account and put a description of what happened.It wouldn’t do me any good to call you seeing as how the item is gone. Once it’s put on hold I can’t release the item even if you wanted to get it back. It isn’t my job to go looking for you since there isn’t anything I could do. Maybe restitution for loss of money, but that isn’t worth my time chasing after.Now it doesn’t matter if it was an item you stole, or you brought in for someone else and they stole it. YOU brought the item in and I lost money on it and don’t have a way to get any of it back. Why would I then trust you to bring in another item? The only thing left to do is to tell you you’re not allowed in the store and kick you out.

Your local laws may have specific limits, but I agree with India Mitchell -- without some identifiers available, keeping less than $100 would be reasonable.I have been called to "found property" reports where some Good Samaritan wanted to turn in $25 or $50, "just in case" the person who lost it called in about it. I told them to hang on to the money for a week and I would call them if we had someone report losing it. Otherwise, it would go straight to the State's General Fund, but it would take a hundred dollar's worth of paperwork to get it processed...