Can I be buried with my pistol?

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Seriously, I was thinking that when I die I want my trusted pistol buried with me. You know how some people have pictures and trinkets buried along with them for the afterlife...well...I want my pistol. I've even considered making a small box with a hidden compartment to hold it if I can't. Inside the box will be pictures and momentos and in a hidden compartment will be my favorite 9mm.

Anyone?
 
Well, unless you have someone you really like whom you would want to pass your pistol on to, I guess you could have it included with you.

However, I would think fondly of you every time I used that pistol if you were to will it to me.
 
Worried you won't get into Valhalla otherwise?

Burial laws can be intensely goofy and vary state to state. I think you want to ask this question of a local wills and trusts lawyer, not a bunch of online gun nuts.
 
Sure, you can be buried with it - just as long as you understand that we are going to dig up your sorry bones to get it back. :neener:

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Like Erich said, some burial laws can be goofy and they change from place to place. As your estate attorney or call a local funeral home for more info.
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Now where's that shovel....

Brad
 
What law could you possibly be breaking you would have to worry about?
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Cancealed Carry without a valid permit? Better include your CHL in with your pictures and trinkets.:D

Out of curiosity...what kind of gun is it? And where are you planning o be buried? And when is the service? Are there any places to rent a backhoe near by?

Smoke

:D :D :D
 
Kind'a reminds me of this:

"When I die, bury me deep; with six guns at my feet"! :cool:

Not quite sure, if they are talk'in six shooter's; or the
quanity of six?

On another note, I have explicted instructions for my
family to send my much beloved West German SIG-
SAUER .45 caliber P220A back to SIG for a refurb job.
Then, provided that the family does not want it ; its
to be passed on to my long time friend and fellow
THR member Capbuster.

The others with maybe the exception of the West
German SIG-SAUER 9m/m P228 w/high caps, can
be sold at auction to the highest bidder; if the
family has no objections.

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
 
Well I didn't check the local regs...
I buried a few close friends, lets just say concealed means concealed. Guns were not necessarily valuable per se' more symbolic is more like it. It didn't hurt that I knew someone at the funeral home. Extra mags are easier than speedloaders btw. Knives are easy.
;)
 
I own a concealed shovel permit, just what graveyard do you plan on being buried in?:D
 
Don't get me wrong, I'm only 33 and have a ways to go (I hope), but I at least learned not to have any relatives post my obit. on this board.

I see it now...you guys come in all teary eyed, walk up to the casket, and then proceed to ask permission for one last hug...then you search frantically for the hidden 9. Then the guy, who has already given his respects now standing off to the left of the casket looks you in the eye, smiles, ( because he knows too...and he beat you to the punch) , and then the real crying begins.

You're guys are right, my Illinois FOID card would expire! Oh the horror of it all.
 
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Don't get me wrong, I'm only 33 and have a ways to go (I hope),
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Quit dilly-dallying around and get on with it, man!;)

Actually, I plan to be buried with my .45 and my Randall Model 14 bowie knife. I don't know where I'm going, but I plan to have both hands full when I get there.
 
Preacherman - - -

- - Funny you should mention that.

A close friend and firearms aficionado, on his death bed, yet clear of mind, charged me with the responsibility of seeing that he was at least symbolically armed when put away. Trouble was, he wanted to be cremated.

We compromised and I rooted through his collection and came up with a small brass single shot percussion pistol. A consultation with the funeral director and crematory staff indicated that the temperature should be high enough. I assured them that I would personally sift the ashes for the steel parts. All went off well. (No, I did not do any sifting.)

R.I.P., JLW

Best,
Johnny
 
The Big Question, Loaded or Unloaded?

I would want mine loaded, to protect myself from those Grave Robbers!!!
 
At the Carter House in Franklin, TN, they have a lead casket on display that some vandals had unearthed in hope of getting a sword. :mad:
 
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At the Carter House in Franklin, TN, they have a lead casket on display that some vandals had unearthed in hope of getting a sword.
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The claymore I'm referring to is not a sword.;)

The claidh mor (great sword) was an edged weapon -- my plan is to use the kind that goes BANG!
 
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:D :D :D :D
 
I'd much rather give my favorite gun to a family member or close friend who could enjoy it than have it rusting underground with the worms.

Then again...just incase there is a toxic waste spill at the cemetery and we all emerge from our graves as stumbling, lurching zombies, it would be nice to have a .45 and some spare mags to fend off any assailing zombies.
 
Just make sure that you have a CDWP (Coffin Defense Weapon Permit) without it and if you’re caught, you'll be in confinement a very long time... Maybe an eternity....
 
Both of my parents were buried with all sorts of things. i dont see any problem with having a pistol buried with you. i know of a few peoples relatives that were in the military that have had weopons in the casket.
 
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