Would you want to be buried with one of your firearms?

Would you want to be buried with any of your firearms? Anyone made plans to do this? Odd question perhaps, but I think it would be nice to be buried with a gun that I care deeply for.

Unlike the ancient Egyptians I don't think I'll be able to use "Stanley" in the hereafter.
Thank you,no.

Sadly, I've had to think about it this week while doing paperwork.

Part of me says yes, I want X to go with me. However, anything that means something to me would mean much more to my sons. So, I'm torn.

Bit of a waste to take it with you. However, I may buy one just to take with me. Consider it my last action for "the cause".

Oh, and Life NRA memberships for all my liberal friends:evil:

Not for me. I'd rather my kids have them, but I happen to know where I could "dig up" an M14.

I would rather pass them down. But I have thought of being burried in a Gun Safe.


I have thought about getting creamated in a pine box with thousands and thousands of 1/2" nails then I want to be thrown out on I-95 so all them AHoles can get a flat tire from me.

I don't think the kids would miss one little M44 and 100 rounds of Czech light ball.

I'm with the "I'd rather pass them down" crowd.


-- John

No. Why waste a perfectly good gun. Besides I'm being cremated ...not taxidermied.

Based on other threads in this forum there is an upcoming zombie invasion, being a zombie would be bad enough. Are you sure you want to be an armed zombie?

Maybe if I was being buried as a corpse, but I'd rather be cremated. Don't want to come back as a zombie, and don't like the idea of worms eventually calling me home :)

no. The plan is that I will be the first generation of my family that I know of to pass down firearms to the next.

i want to have a straight up funeral pyre {not even sure if you can do that, who care, i got loyal people lol} viking style.

so a gun and ammo prolly wouldnt work out and who wants to have to scrounge for ammo in the after life ya know?? so nah, no gun unless im put back into the earth, in that case i want my tikka with a couple houndred rounds, a bottle of single malt highland and a good knife.

My plans involve cremation for me and willing firearms to my kids. No need to burn up a perfectly good gun.

I'd like it but I'd do it with a nonfunctional beater probably and I bet cemetary regulations will disallow it. You would have tpo be sure someone didn't snag it either.

My main only wish I have come up with is whether i am buried or cremated, I'd like some dirt from the Holy Land to be included with my burial dirt or scattered along with my ashes. My ashes I wish to have scattered at an informal shooting spot in a free state.

I'd let my kids enjoy guns.

I have never thought of it before, and I do plan on leaving all my guns to my sons and daughter (along with hopefully a passel of grandkids some day), but I can see having a lil marlin 60 or similar slid into the lining of my casket. (I have spent more "quality" time with one of these than probably anything else). It would not be a great loss to the world, nor an expensive one. In fact now that I think of it, I do have an old MG 75 with a cut down stock that I think would be just perfect for it.

Look at it this way... thousands of years later they may dig up your coffin as part of some super space age archaeological dig. Just to think, they'll be talking about how your stone age AK would still fire without a hiccup :neener:

No.

The gun might become a contribution to the shrapnell.

Cremated!?!?!


I wanna be EXPLODED!!!

No way. Sad enough I'll have to check out. Why waste a perfectly good Colt buried in the dirt?

Leavin em to the kids. Might be the only thing worth a crap by then.

They are just things.

I'm always happier when I'm acquiring a gun rather than when I actually possess it.

Double the joy if you can keep up the quest when you're dead. http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd7/rkba2da/smileys/zombie-1.gif

make sure whoever is designated to get the gun into the casket just before the lid is shut knows that the person in the casket is laying on a type of shelf that does NOT go all the way to the edge of the casket.

What could happen is that as the person is trying to slip the firearm under the hand of the person in the casket then the firearm could slip off of the shelf and make a rather loud clanging noise in a very quiet church.

While there are some who believe this was the source of the noise at my father's funeral, as the one standing at the casket at the time I will continue to claim the noise was the gates of heaven being flung open for his welcome.

migoi

Nope... I want to be cremated and then my ashes scattered over the Brady HQ's property. I'd like to consider that my remains will go out "Old Testament" style by salting the fields so that nothing more can grow there.

I'm always happier when I'm acquiring a gun rather than when I actually possess it.

ain't that the truth! It is akin to the anticipation of children waiting for Christmas morning.

I might just pick one out to go to the happy hunting ground with me.

Hopefully, I will train a son up to be ready to excercise the 2A (according to its ORIGINAL intent), and will provide him with all of my weapons to do so.

The more weapons in the hand of the people, the better.

I'd rather be buried like Sarah Conner... cremated, and my coffin filled with goodies (but I'd pack them in cosmoline) in case my children, or grandchildren, were ever faced with a society in which they might need them.

Only if my ex-Mother-in-law was holding it.:evil:

My guns will likely outlive me by far. I'd rather my friends, relatives and their children have them.

A friend passed away recently. He was an old-time member of the gun culture, and we wanted to do something different. Local PD said, "no way" to a 21-gun salute, and the funeral home said no to burying him with a gun, so we settled for putting a round of .30-06 in his hands before closing the casket.

Figured he'd get a kick out of it :)

All of them. And I want my casket lined with traveler's checks. :neener:

and the funeral home said no to burying him with a gun,....

Don't ask, don't tell....

migoi

agreed, none of there damned beeswax if you ask this youngman

When I am buried I've already made it understood that I'm to go out in full battle rattle. BDUs, body armor, helmet, rifle, pistol, full mags, PVS14s, the works. I want to be the archialogical find in the year 5,000.

I remember looking at National Geographic when I was a kid and seeing tombs of Vikings, Mongols, Romans, ect. and was fasinated by the items buried with them.

I won't have them chamber a round in the weapons(springs may fail after a thousand years). I will leave enough weapons to go around that an AR and a .45 will not be missed. Plus I have a half million dollar life insurance policy to ensure any weapon can be easily replaced.

Why would I waste a perfectly good firearm on my ugly corpse? Where ever I'm headed, I won't be needing it.

I think my firearms would be better off left with my children or relatives. Even if not relatives, i would rather my guns be given to some poor joe to have fun with/protect himself or his family with. At least they would be of some use to someone. Wont do any good when im dead.

Not a gun - but I likely would like to be buried with a sword. I have over a dozen katana, but I have a nice Viking sword - an Albion Clontarf - that would seem to fit the bill nicely.

Now, if I could just be set to sea in a flaming boat. . . . .:evil:


Sjá, þar sé ek föður minn.
Sjá, þar sé ek móður mina ok systur mina ok bróður minn.
Sjá, þar sé ek allan minn frændgarð.
Sjá, kalla þeim tíl min.
Biðja mér at taka minn stað hjá þeim í sölum Valhallar, þar drengiligr menn munu lifa allan aldr.

Lo there do I see my father
Lo there do I see my mother and my sister and my brother
Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning
Lo they call to me
They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever

Hm. If I'm buried with a gun, I'll specify that it should be loaded with certain ammunition, kept in a very well-marked, sealed box in my house. Grave robbers beware the curse of Ryan M.

"Now, if I could just be set to sea in a flaming boat. . . . ."

im not sure of the legality but thats my wishes as well. I know my people are loyal enough and then some, but wouldnt want to get anyone in trouble with the law or anything over it.

Fill my coffin up with all kinds of weaponry like in Terminator 4. Spread my ashes off the coast of Mexico.

Maybe a pellet gun :)

A *real* gun, I'd rather pass on to the (yet hypothetical) kids, or to my brother, or to a friend ... perhaps provide in my will for some clever engraving on it at that point.

timothy

p.s. And I don't want to be buried, or cremated. I want my bones to be metal plated, sealed against corrosion, jointed together, and passed down with the guns :) And Yes, I'm serious. Just can't yet afford it.

Funny this was mentioned. I told my wife i'll like to be buried with a firearm. LOL

I've made plans to be cremated, but that doesn't preclude me from being buried with a weapon. Still, I don't think I would ask to be buried with a gun, unless my friends would like to use my ashes to stash one, which is possible. I'll suggest it, in fact: Graveyards always seem to be a tremendous waste of space. Peaceful place to go and read, though, if you're not creeped out by that. Sometimes I go up to the family plot and do just that. Quality time with the family... anyway, I digress. It'd be nice to have the hole in the ground I'm filling to actually be of some use.

I have asked, though, to be buried with a certain knife. A machinist friend of mine made it custom for me. I've never seen anything exactly like it. I think he made it out of steel from a truck's leaf springs. It's a short dagger with a tapering triangular blade, rough-finished. He punched holes in the hilt to thread cord through for a skeleton handle. It looks like, and is, basically an artfully made prison shank, with the blade just a tad off kilter. It's the most beautiful knife I own. So evil-looking.

If I have kids, I'll pass it down as an "heirloom"; a memento of little Foxtrot Jr.'s crazy pop who actually grew up when folks owned guns and knives and lived free.

Since I don't plan to procreate, they can toss it in the ground with me, unless my machinist friends wants it back.

Why waste a perfectly good gun on a dead guy? I will pass them on. So should we all. I think there may come a time when they're hard to get. Our posterity will need them.

My goal is to pass my guns on to my children.

+1 on not wanting to be an armed zombie.

Not quite sure where I'm goin' or what I may find when I get there so yes, I would like a bit of protection goin' with me.

If I go to a place where there is bad zombies, I may be able to fend them off a while with a gun. It doesn't have to be a good one, just functional. I would want my CCW licence with me in case a cop:evil: asks me for it.

OTOH if I go where there are only good guys, it would be fun teaching some of those "liberals" :eek: how to shoot. Heck, (notice I didn't say he**) I may just get some good matches goin' too.

Disclaimer: The above was written in pure jest (just covering my bases)

Please, no burial in the ground for me.

Perhaps my first choice is platform burial. We have a large maple in the back yard in which a platform could be placed, but I suppose the neighbors or city would object. I have heard that there is a way of composting ones remains, but I have no idea if it is readily available. That pretty much leaves cremation or burial at sea.

As to guns, my wife says she gets them all.

"Would you want to be buried with one of your firearms?"

No

I would'nt mind being an armed Zombie.:evil:

No, but I can think of a few I would like to see buried after using my firearms.

Just kidding!

My guns will be passed on to my pro 2A friends.
While some have stated the desire to have a weapon placed in in their final resting place with them, I'd rather have my friends remember me fondly for the thoughtful "parting shot".

No. And they can cremate me bare naked. Somebody going thru Goodwill might need my underware.

I've always liked the idea of being FOUND with a rifle a few thousand years hence.

I imagine scholarly papers with titles like, "Burial Practices of the Late American Empire: "Here Lies a Free Man.'"

This is how I'm going out.

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Yep I think a couple of sealed AR-15 ,mags ,and ammo would take up little space. And when their needed down the road you kids will have them. Gov won't be looking in grave yards for AR's or AK least not at first .

No thanks, it won't be any use to me then, but then again I don't really even care what happens to my body when I'm dead so...

i'd rather pass them down. althought the terminater idea does have some merit...

hankdatank1362:

That's a lot of NFA stuff you have there. :D

Somebody has a heckuva good job!

No.

(What's this bs about message too short to post if it less than four characters? Brevity is next to Godliness.)

Nope, mine are definately going to my kids. Along with my father's guns and his father's gun.

No I would not need any tools to be packed along side my corpse, I would have no use for them, and if I someday have children of my own. They would know what to do with my tools, and that they should keep them to honor my memory.

Guns are just a lot of metal and plastic, etc. I have no desire to be buried with them or to cherish them above friends and family.

Regards,
Jerry

I sure would. Plan to as well. :D

Maybe if I was being buried as a corpse, but I'd rather be cremated. Don't want to come back as a zombie, and don't like the idea of worms eventually calling me home

Same for me. LOL about the zombies. Even though I am still young, I still want to be prepared because you never know. I choose cremation also because of my customs. We Chinese have been cremating our dead since the Xia Kingdom over 5,300 years ago. Cremation on a river pyre has been done for great war heroes who died in combat such as Feng Yunshan, one of the fearless leaders of the Taiping Rebellion who had been coronated "Nan Wang", or "South King".

But.................back on topic. I rather have my guns passed down from generation to generation. Feng Yunshan didn't have his broadsword and spear cremated with him. They were given to Tan Shaokuang, another leader of the Taiping army.

"Burial Practices of the Late American Empire: "Here Lies a Free Man.'"

Wow, that was most heart-warming post I ever read. But if we keep up the fight for our freedoms and make sure they last forever, our descendants will always be free.

But yeah, I would have my guns passed down from generation to generation. That way the future generations would always have something to remember the past by. And according to Chinese belief, things held by their owners would have some of their owner's spirit in them. Kind of like the Elder Wand in Harry Potter and the Medicine Swords in ancient Chinese culture. These items have a special power that they possess, psychologically at least. I would want my descendants to hold items that I possessed and cherish, and therefore, they will always be protected by me and my ancestors.

Topic made me smile.

Dad had told mom and his friends years before he died he wanted to be buried with a roll of 20's and his .357 Magnum. He told everyone if he couldn't bribe his way out of hell he'd shoot his way out.

When Dad died in 2001 he had a number of 20's in his money clip and his .357 under his suit jacket during his funeral. Since he was a cop and attended by many, many working and retired cops the handgun, while concealed, was noticed by everyone. Both money clip and .357 are in my dresser now.

Not me... I want to be able to pass them down. My family has a tradition of passing down a shotgun to the oldest son. Well, I'm the youngest by a long shot so I guess that means I can come up with my own tradition. I want to be able to pass down guns to any and all children and grandchildren that I may some day have.

If whatever I own is legal to pass on to posterity, it's going to someone who will appreciate it, be they in my family, or no--I'm not giving anything to a member of my family who isn't staunchly on "our side."

If whatever I own is cherished, and illegal to pass on--yeah, I'd rather be buried with it than have it melted or sawed in half. That way, someone will know where to find it, should they have reason to use it ;)

Both money clip and .357 are in my dresser now.
Oh, man - how's dad going to get out now? ;)

What the heck for? :scrutiny:

Leaving them to folks who will use them. :D

I've always liked the idea of being FOUND with a rifle a few thousand years hence
With a sign around my skeleton neck that reads "from my cold dead hands"

Feanaro said...
Why would I waste a perfectly good firearm on my ugly corpse? Where ever I'm headed, I won't be needing it.

Well...I think you're not necessarily speaking for me. I mean...I don't believe in God, or an afterlife. But...if there IS a God AND an afterlife, then I'm probably going find myself in a place where I'll need a pump 12 Gauge and a lot of #4 Buck (Great for hammering Hell’s Angels on the wing).

Ya' just never know. Better to be prepared than sorry.

The guns are the kid's & grandkid's. But a couple posts got me thinking, I'll have to build a nice blade for the occasion. Don't like not carrying a pistol. can't go an hour w/o a blade of some kind.

A good friend of mine and I have been bs'ing for years about when we pass on we're going to be buried with a .30-30 and a bottle of Jack so we can meet up, get drunk, and take pot shots at the devil...

-John

You're kidding, right? You're a month early for April fools.

You're kidding, right? You're a month early for April fools.

Me, never...It started off at the lunch table in grade school chatting about when we both got to shoot
our dads Winchester 94's. However, I've gotten a little more sentimental towards the Marlin 336's.

No just Carmen Electra

I am 21 so my view may change as I age, but I agree with the passing it on comments however part of me would like to buy an AR or other "Evil" rifle to take with me, mostly to piss off the gun grabbers.

Are their legal implications in this?

No, but if I thought I was going to Valhalla, I might want a sword. ;)

Hmmm,

Must be a guy thing, consider this if you will. When my Gramps died, Dad took the old man's 'swing block' Springfield out and shot a deer with it. At the funeral dinner, when the venison was served, Dad announced that the 'Old Man' was still feeding his family.

I'm told that in 1969, my great grandfathers' '09' revolver helped my Uncle Lee to get back to a bunker after his M-16 jammed. Had that revolver been buried with Great Grandfather in 1948 Uncle Lee might have killed back then.

Our tools serve us, if they continue their functions after we are gone a part of us lives on through them. If they follow us to the grave we die just a bit more.

Selena

When I'm done with this body, it won't be the gun that has died.

My guns, my knives, and my other tools will all be handed down to my offspring and their offspring.

I want to know that Madison is shooting Grampa's gun.

I want my grandkids to tell their grandkids, "this gun protected your great-great grandfather; take care of it, use it wisely."

I want the flame kept alive, and the tools kept shiny and used daily. They don't belong in a coffin or a museum, but at the range and in the woods and in the home.

The body they'll cremate isn't me. I'll be somewhere else. And if there are guns in that "somewhere else" I'll be at the range.

It's just a tool. Why would I want to be buried with my tools?

I would not want to be buried with a firearm. My request is to be buried with the ashes of my husky, who was much more than a friend to me.

I won't need my guns for the dirt nap. Once I'm dead I won't need to defend my life. Corpses don't need guns, and I would much rather have my son keep them and think of me when he handles them.

I would like my family members to be able to get some use and enjoyment out of it like I did. It would do them more good to have it than myself.

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Both money clip and .357 are in my dresser now.
Oh, man - how's dad going to get out now?


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My uncle, Dad's brother, passed away a couple years before Dad did. Both were USAF AP's in the 60's along with another brother who was an Army MP in Korea.

Uncle Don suggested the Marines needed a break at the front gate, so he called a couple good Air Force NCO's to the post. Since they carried M15's, he'd have no use for that Model 65.

My first thought was: heck no, I have no use for them any longer- let my family enjoy them.

But I've reconsidered. Give all the sentimental ones to my family. In my will, I will direct to buy the most useful modern weapon that exists at the time. I want it hermetically sealed in a vacuum (in its own container) next to me in the grave.

That way, when they grab for too much power after I'm gone, I'm still supplying some use. (Dig me up boys!)

I think I will worry about this in 20 years or so. There is no point in facing reality too soon.

Nope, I would want my firearms to be passed down and taken care of.

Good question. I can understand a man wanting to be buried with a trusted weapon, but it seems like such a waste. When my time comes I want my guns given to those who will appreciate them, which I hope will be my sons and grandsons.

I wouldn't want to just for the fact that others could continue to enjoy them. Placing anything in a casket (body included) always seemed wasteful to me. The departed are just that; departed. Use that money to buy some guns and have a range party. :cool: http://www.thehighroad.org/images/icons/icon14.gif

Although I have some wishes for who gets my stuff, I really don't plan to be around to find out if those wishes were honored. Once I'm gone, I'll be out of here the first chance I get to go find out all the stuff I couldn't find out while I was alive.


-T.

there is a potawatomi legond about the trail to the happy hunting ground being filled with danger and enemies. there is a large strawberry at the halfway point and a warrior must have a knife to cut a piece off so that he can eat and rest.

my grandfather was buried on the reservation and between family and friends he was sent well armed sent a .44 mag strapped to his ankle 5 boxes of sp ammo at least 2 dozen knives of different varieties i dont even know how many cigs (everybody in the place left some when they were at the casket... there were literaly piles) a fifth of jd and a six pack of bud

as for myself anything that has been banned at that time will be sealed and put into the walls of my house along with ammo id like an ak and a couple hundred rounds along with my favorite smith and wesson knife to go with me

the rest are for my daughter (as is the house ill leave her a note where the guns are)

Yes. A single one, with a hundred rounds of ammunition or so. All sealed up, or packed in cosmoline, buried with me. Then, there will be explicit instructions left that when the day it is needed comes, to dig me up and take it.

Or, I'll be cremated and I'll hide a gun or two and leave directions to find it (if I don;t get the chance to personally show the kids/grandkids where they are)

If it's time to bury me, it's time to dig me up! :evil:


Seriously though... What caliber for worms?

Oh. maybe I'll come back as an armed zombie! So lotsa ammo please!

I'm not sure where I'm going when I die, so I want both hands full.

:D

I absolutely intend to be buried with a gun. I have worked on an archaeological dig before (Cadir Hoyuk, Turkey...) and I definitely intend to be a future exhibit for archaeologists in a thousand years or so. I may even construct a tomb to be buried in rather than that passe' coffin idea.

I definitely intend to be a future exhibit for archaeologists

That's similar to what I was thinking when I said:

I've always liked the idea of being FOUND with a rifle a few thousand years hence.


I'm thinking of the impression it'll make on those distant Eloi who find me.
It would "make a statement", as the libs like to say.

I'm not talking about wasting a $1000 AR. A $100 Mil Surp will do just fine.

not here , Can not see how it would help. Someone else would get to enjoy them when I am gone.

I have my firearms for my self-defense. I will not longer need them when I am gone. However, I think they will make fine items to leave to others.

It would mean much more to pass it on to my sons or even daughter. It would probably help the cause more!

I know I wouldn't be as much into guns if it werent for my grandfathers old Beretta .22.

Would you want to be buried with one of your firearms?

No. Kids, siblings, or friends, get them. I will have no use for them.

If I could I'd want my stainless Gold Cup (high polished) to be with me. Looks great with a Black suit.

No, my kids and grandkids will have a greater need for them than I will I'm afraid!

I don't think St. Peter would be too happy if you showed up packing.

I don't see how this is possible. I mean, wouldn't that gun still be in an evidence locker?

Ever since I was a kid and saw the movie "The Vikings", I've wanted a Viking's funeral. I've thought about having some sort of weapon, probably a sword or axe, placed on board with my body. But not a gun. I'd rather they go someone else who would enjoy them as much as I have, then to have it lost forever.

Some idiot would probably steal it.

No...my kids will get them.

I don't think St. Peter would be too happy if you showed up packing.

That's why you need to make sure your CCW is in good order before then.

Those guns personally important enough to be buried with are better handed down.

Majic,
What do you think the "legions of angels" (mentioned in a military context) are packing? harps?