Do You Have a USELESS firearm?

That's a shame. Those long barreled small bore top breaks have a certain charm.

Jim Watson said:

That's a shame. Those long barreled small bore top breaks have a certain charm.

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Agreed. Fortunately I have this one to fill that role.

I have a few that don’t really fit a role, but I wouldn’t call them useless. A good example would be my Taurus Raging Judge. It doesn’t serve a specific purpose, but if I ever need a hammer in a pinch it’s in my safe waiting.

Chuck R. said:

Older Auto-Ordnance Thompson M1 that was left to me......spent a couple hundred getting it to run right and it's sat in the rack since. It's fun for a couple mags, then the joy of an 11lb .45ACP wears off.

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I know what's wrong with it. It lacks the "fun" switch. Then again, at the current price of .45ACP ammo my 1928 has become a bit useless too. The forward lean while shooting it isn't caused by the Cutts comp but the rate at which it turns money into noise, lightening the wallet in my back pocket. It's pretty to look at, though.

I don't have anything I'd really consider useless. Everything I own has a purpose, otherwise I wouldn't own it.

My LEAST USED firearm is my Mossberg 500, because I don't hunt with it and rarely shoot clays for fun. That being said, though, it is still very much useful as my primary home defense option, which is why it sits at the front of the safe with a light mounted and it's 18.5" barrel attached.

RKRCPA said:

Raven .25 auto here. About as useless as they come.

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Really? Ravens had a decent reputation for working, at least when they were new. Is yours a bad one?

BigBL87 said:

That being said, though, it is still very much useful as my primary home defense option, which is why it sits at the front of the safe with a light mounted and it's 18.5" barrel attached.

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I'd be quite worried if my HD guns were the most frequently used ones, aside from practising with them.

I have no “useless guns”. I did have one. My Remington R51 Gen 2. It went back to Remington 3 times. They replaced it with a reworked Gen 1. I made sure it fired safely with about 200 rounds through it and sold it for $150 to get rid of it. I didn’t trust it. I will not own a gun that I can’t trust.

Zero trust = Useless

Nope. But I have several project guns.

Yeah, a Colt New Army. Thing is a piece of crap.

Colt new line 22 is a parts gun that will kinda shoot.

The Butler 22short Thuer derringer is only slightly better in fully functional condition.

Years ago I was given one of those crappy little Jennings .22 pistols. I loaded the mags and let them sit is a draw for a while. One of the mag springs took a set.
I took the gun and cut it up with my dremel and threw the pieces into the garbage along with the mags. That gun has been in the Milwaukee landfill for about 18 years now.

Well not really useless, but makes you think before using it again.. We have a beater in the family that has put more Rabbit, squirrel and possum on the table then the Piggly Wiggly has meat on a good day.

My Great Grand dad got this Zulu shotgun from some previous family member. Never did know who. Anywho he hunted the guts out of this thing. I remember anytime going over to his house he was stewing or frying some critter or critters he got..

Well the years past and Grandad hunted with it and when his memory started failing, he left it in the barn and forgot where he put it. By the time uncle 3 toes found it the wood rot got to it pretty bad. So he bolted and wired the barrel to a wood stock that he had. Now this stock is a real blessing because with the recoil pad it makes it softer to shoot, but it does not line up well enough so the trigger and original hammer would work anymore.

So he tied a hammer to it so you can smack it on the firing pin to shoot the gun. Now you would think that would make it hard to hunt with. But my uncle was always bagging some critter. And to be honest I have nailed a few myself with it. Its not as hard as you might think. It's no worse when aiming a hand cannon and lighting it with a fire rope. The big pain is carrying the hammer in your belt or suspenders while you are walking in the brush..

So finally after my uncle got put away, I got it. Where as I do not shoot it alot, he did leave me with a fair amount of reloaded ammo for it.

dh1633pm said:

I have this cool revolver. Looks nice on the display shelf. I was going to use it as a carry pistol, but I couldn’t find ammo.

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God I love it.... Would not have that devil snag in your pocket if you had to pull it..

Dutch Beaumont Vitali Model 1871/88 11x52R. Ammo not cheap or easy to find. The stock is one shot away from snapping in half. Guy had it on a table at a gunshow for $50. At the end of the evening he threw me a number that I couldn't refuse. It would look nice hanging over a fireplace.

GAF said:

I took the gun and cut it up with my dremel and threw the pieces into the garbage along with the mags. That gun has been in the Milwaukee landfill for about 18 years now.

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Which begs the question of whether there are legal requirements when destroying or otherwise rendering a gun useless and discarding it or just chucking it in the lake. (Yes I'm thinking of the old "tragic boating accident" ploy.)

Oldies, I guess there's no problem (I have several guns that are pre-GCA1968 without serial numbers), but nowadays, almost every gun is "registered" one way or another.

Terry, 230RN

No. The closest thing I could come up with is my break barrel .22 pellet rifle. But even that is capable of taking down nuisance birds, squirrels and rabbits.

So even though that's not technically a firearm, and everything else I have is much more capable, I would say that I dont have a "useless" firearm.

Bond Arms 410/45 derringer. Well made, but you can't hit anything with it.

I have a few that were gifted to me by my Dad that I’ll never shoot... nor will I send them away while he’s still alive...so they’re sorta semi-useless I guess.

A left hand Remington 700 BDL 7mm Rem Mag... its unfired.. and since no one else in my family is left handed other than Dad, it’ll stay that way.

He also gifted me a couple of Ducks Unlimited dinner guns...a 20Ga 870 LW and a 12 Ga Beretta A303. They're engraved and pretty fancy but I may just start shooting-hunting with them.

The most useless one is a Golden Spike 1894 that has a peep and a sling mounted and is battered from rough hunting. The gold tone hoopla is really tacky, I’d never take it out to the range.

Stay safe.

Aren’t safe queen guns unless?

Asking for a friend.

My Polack Tok is anything but useless. This thing has no function whatsoever, though.

230RN said:

Which begs the question of whether there are legal requirements when destroying or otherwise rendering a gun useless and discarding it or just chucking it in the lake. ... nowadays, almost every gun is "registered" one way or another.

Terry, 230RN

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I had the weld of one of the slide rails fail on a P10 pistol. The rail broke free of the barrel trunion, cracking the polymer grip. Repair cost would exceed value of the gun. I stripped it down to parts, mailed them off to Numrich Gun Parts. I trashed the frame and polymer grip.

I have not heard of any way to remove an ordinary firearm from the federal tracking system used for Title I ordinary long guns or handguns.

The rules for federally registered Title II NFA items do require notifying ATF, but that's for full auto, SBR, SBS, AOW, silencers.

Here is what I carry on the end of my watch chain.




A 2mm pinfire single shot pistol. Yes it works and yes I have ammunition for it. I fired it a couple maybe 5 years ago. It went bang. I doubt it will ever replace my 45 ACP.

Kevin

Before I retired I had a patient that I got close to him and his family. When he died the widow gave me a couple nice knives and two guns.
One was a nice colt detective, the other some Spanish ( Ruby I think) junk.
I promptly disassembled it and took the boat about 12 miles off shore and going parallel to the coast dropped a piece in the ocean every couple hundred yards.