Ever notice how many 'hauntings' take place right after the 'hauntee' is suddenly awoken? There's your explanation
I suspect guns aren't haunted so often because they are simple. Unlike houses, with hidden nooks and crannies, and boards that go 'squeak' or rattle, guns don't (can't) do much on their own. No activity = little chance for them to be mistaken for housing mysterious phenomena. One caveat, however, is concept of 'energy' that people can 'sense' from inanimate objects. Knowing or guessing at the history behind relics, emotional feelings can be imparted onto the object giving it an 'aura' of evil, nobility, etc. The closest to 'haunting' that can (ir)rationally be attributed to firearms by the ignorant/mistaken is the notion of
possession, where the firearms' 'will' affects or supercedes that of its owner or people near by; the old cinema story of the 'sinister trinket' that brings misfortune on those who come by it.
...and that's where 'evil weapons that must be banned' come from
. If you chase it down all the way, much of the core of gun-phobic sentiment really is straight out of fairy tales*
I haven't been unduly affected by the potential history of any of the old guns I own (which could be anything from the gruesome death of a French Officer in some awful trench during WWI <Mle 1873 revolver>, to brutally suppressed Zapata revolutionaries/terrorists <Mexican 1902 rolling block>, to cozy but nervous Swiss reservists observing WWII <K31>, to enforcing Party edicts against disarmed civilians <Mauser C96, possibly of Chinese history>) but I have to admit to some very low-level discomfort about the MP34 kit I picked up from a Polish guy recently. These were likely the finest SMGs ever made at that time or since, which is why I would like to build an example as a semi-auto replica. However, their history was tarnished by their frequent use by German SS units, specifically by concentration camp guards. This kit is most likely not of that issue set (I think I'd have had to pay more than I did for that kind of 'history') but rather an export model. Still, it is iconic as one of the 'big bad' guns of WWII, associated with the most guilty actors, and surely carries great meaning for a lot of people even today, not unlike the Luger. I'm sure a lot of people would rather the parts kit be fated to never fire another round, and instead be
utterly destroyed. I think that is a childish waste of everything it represents, good and bad.
TCB
*see? I managed to tie it back to THR-related content, even if it took a few turns...