foxmeadow
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I have enough safe queens that I'm considering installing a camera in my safe so I can admire them from the living room...
Keep a weather eye on your springsI picked up a Bren Ten last year, and it's likely as close to a safe queen as I have. I've had it out twice since I bought and will probably bring it out one or twice a year. I've read that frame cracking is not unheard of with Brens (and it was by far the most expensive handgun I've ever bought!) but it's such a nice-shooting pistol it deserves to be shot once in a while.
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Have any of you purchased "safe queens?" That is, pistols that you knew beforehand wouldn't be carry or fired very much? You purchased just because you liked the way it looked, just to say you own one, and/or to be a family heirlooms?
If so, what was it, and why did you buy it?
My father worked in the armory on the battleship Alabama in '45. He often told me about the five Singer Sewing Machine 1911's they had. He had no idea there were only 500 made. I suppose nobody did in those days because the information probably wasn't available. He said they were absolute junk and when the senior officers and old petty officers decided to practice shooting, they always chose a World War I Colt.No and if I ever get my dream gun , a Singer Sewing Machine 1911 , I'll shoot it and carry it regularly !