I overheard a dealer and a potential seller talking about the history of the gun he was selling. He said it belonged to the wife of a neighbor who recently died. The recently deceased guy bought the pistol for his wife to use for self-defense, and she had asked this guy to sell it for her. The dealer said (in a good natured way), "Oh, so she decided she doesn't need a gun for self-defense now that he's dead huh?" Maybe you had to be there, but it struck me as funny.