Gun used in suicide

[ndh87]

Armueller2001 - I nearly spit coffee all over my screen and key board when I read yours.

 

[cerberus65]

I voted yes. Especially in the case of someone I didn't even know. I would buy it and then never make a big deal about it. I probably wouldn't even ever tell anyone. What would the point be?

If it was from someone I knew then I would keep it as a reminder of them and of what horrific damage depression can do to a person's mind. If I was offered the gun that my grandfather used (unsuccessfully) so many years ago I would take it in a heartbeat. I still wouldn't tell anyone except maybe my kids. And in addition to remembering my grandfather and the effects of depression, it would remind me that mixing alcohol and depression is a really, really, really bad idea.

 

[mljdeckard]

The only exception I would make would be to make sure I never wear it in front of anyone I thought might be connected to the deceased and might recognize it.

 

[JackBurtonJr]

Here's a fair story about a good gun gone bad... and how it found redemption in the end [that is, if you believe guns have souls]

 

[delta53]

who got shot matters

Just think ,If his name was Adolph Hitler would you want it.

 

[xjedix]

The same question can be posed about buying C&R firearms. Your German Mauser's could have very well killed Americans or Jew's. Does that same concept stop you from buying old war rifles??


-Derek

 

[onebigelf]

You know it's accurate, at least at close range.

John

 

[71Commander]

Yes, no problem. Wasn't the guns fault.

 

[230RN]

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[Ala Dan]

Buy It~!

Since you did not know the person directly; bury the memories and
move on. After all, as my friend Brad said "its just an object". The
person responsible for his/her own death had too pull the trigger;
the weapon in question did not go off accidentally, and end their life.

 

[John Wayne]

Well, now that you bought it I guess it doesn't matter.

If it did, you could always buy it at the low price, sell it at fair asking price...

...and then use the money to buy another used Kahr. You'd still have one for the same price, if a little more effort.

And I would definately like to own Hitler's pistol, it would be worth millions! On another note, I will not buy any WWII German small arms because they just might have been the ones to have killed family members. Sorry if that's not rational, but that's the way I feel. I have no problem owning an Enfield though

 

[Kind of Blued]

If it did, you could always buy it at the low price, sell it at fair asking price...

...and then use the money to buy another used Kahr.

One with a certificate of authenticity proving that it was never used in a suicide?

I'm glad you ended up buying it. I have one on my hip right now, although it doesn't have night sights and I paid $600 for it.

 

[Detachment Charlie]

Good buy -- low round count.

 

[Carlos Cabeza]

I have a Ruger .357 that was used to "do the deed" by someone who was very close to me. His wife knew I was a collector and had secure storage for it so she asked if I wanted it. I said "Sure, I will keep it and take good care of it for (BLANK). She thanked me and said "since we were so close he would have wanted me to have it". I was like "THANKS!" No big deal to me.

I have a hammer I smashed my thumb with, I still have it and use it regularly.

 

[DeathByCactus]

I'd buy it, wear it, and use it. Unless it is haunted to the point where it will float up and angle itself at my head, I would buy it.


Only thing is I don't like kahr.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

I wouldn't say I would feel nothing, but it is only an inanimate object, not responsible for the suicide.

 

[contenderman]

The gun has/had nothing to do with it. The idiot pulling the trigger did. How do you know that a used gun you would buy at a shop, gun show, etc., hasn't been used to kill someone? You don't ... the gun can't tell you, and any person telling the story probably is passing it on and as we all know ... stories as they move down the line get further and further from the facts.

 

[moooose102]

i think that at some level, it does bother you. and since you know relatives of the person, it probably will effect your relationship with them. i honestly think that in this situation, i would pass.

 

[krs]

"Metal and wood do not posses a will of their own".

As far as YOU know.............

 

[Big Daddy Grim]

The gun served its purpose what the owner chose as that purpose was there buisness. What you do with it is yours.

 

[krs]

Creature :

I remember hearing once that in certain states, disclosure during the sale of a home is necessary if a murder or suicide happened there. I could be wrong about that though...

If this is true, why then? Isn't that ascribing superstition to an object?

California has such a law. I think it's nine years have to have passed between the event before a seller no longer has to disclose the fact. Either nine years or nine crossings of the threshhold by a black cat wearing underpants.

Something like that...

 

[RP88]

...At least you know it works...

...Good buy--low round count...

...at least you know it's accurate at close range...

I laughed out loud. I totally did.

With that in mind, keep in mind that if such a thing would turn you off from a buy, then don't buy military surplus. How many Mosins do you think had blood or shrapnel wounds on them at some point?

 

[Ala Dan]

58,000 + Names On "The Wall"

or AK's and SKS for that matter~!

 

[GregGry]

With knowing the history I wouldn't have bought it. I am not superstitious,etc in anyway either.

 

[10-Ring]

I know that it's an emotional reaction and I know it's not rational, but it's still bad ju ju. A few years ago, a shooting buddy commited suicide & weeks later, his wife started selling off his collection...none of his friends bought the gun he used.