SAA event in Edinburgh, Hermiston area, United Kingdom on Sun 20th November 2022

A magnet fisherman was left stunned this weekend after he dragged up a rare Second World War rifle from an Edinburgh canal. John Robertson was out fishing with friends when he caught hold of a semi-automatic M1 Garand assault weapon at the capital’s Union Canal near to Hermiston Village on Sunday morning. John, from Edinburgh, and his colleagues immediately called in the police to report the find and the firearm was taken away for disposal by officers. John is a member of the Magnet Fishers of Edinburgh group who have hit the headlines over the past two years for pulling a vast array of discarded weapons from the city’s waterways.