Would you buy a gun that has taken someone's life?

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I passed a S&W .44 Triple Lock to a relative that had been used to kill a revenue agent in 1933. I will beleive in ghosts, haunts, spirits, and demonic possession when somebody shows me. That old 3-Lock never unlocked the gun safe, jumped up in the air, spun around 3 times and started going off.
 
I know the thread is headed in a different direction, but I'd like the pistol that Hitler used to kill himself. In my opinion, it was his best offensive.
 
I wonder whatever happened to the last gun Hunter S. Thompson held? Something tells me he'd approve of its survival and use.
 
The Ruger is a piece of steel and wood. It has no agenda and no personality. It was used once as a tool for suicide. That fault does not rest on the tool but the poor unfortunate that decided his life wasn't worth living.

I'm told there are cases of persons that will threaten police officers as a method of suicide. Would this mean that officer also has a taint? One of the outbuildings on my Dad's farm was used by the previous owner to hang himself, is that building tainted? Persons have been known to try to OD on aspirin to commit suicide, is aspirin somehow evil? Last but not least- my Dad used to claim Mom made a grave error not drowning me in the bathtub when I was two and still cute, does that make bathtubs an instrument of infanticide?

Not in our tools but in ourselves gentle friend. Ex Deus machina is a poor way to live.

Selena
 
My ex used my S&W model 66 to kill her boyfreind (in my kitchen). Took me over a year to get it back from the authorities.
 
If I had a friendship or kinship with the person killed, then I would not. I currently buy utilitarian guns only. That means I could simply buy a different gun. I don't have to have that specific gun.
 
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nachosgrande, a fella in another thread said he traded a Taurus at a gunshow for that Luger Hitler used!
Back on topic, my family has a history of suicide, and it would bother me to sell or destroy a gun used by a friend or loved one. It just did the last job required of it by its owner, nothing wrong with that.
 
^You're applying sentimentality, but for the opposite reason. You're talking about buying a keepsake. I personally wouldn't consider that to be a gun purchase because I personally wouldn't use such a gun. It would just sit there.

My guns are utilitarian. In other words, all my guns go to the range with me and may fall into a mud puddle while I'm dicking around at some outdoor range. So, my answer to the original question is the same. There's no need for me to purchase the specific gun, except if I want it for a museum artifact. I wouldn't consider buying a museum artifact to be a gun purchase.
 
Personally, If someone was to offer me a gun that the previous owner had taken his own life, I would have to decline. There is something erie about it, However, I would have no problem with owning a gun that had been used in a war or something and it had been used to take a life.

I think its just weird.
 
This is ridiculous, everyone knows Hitler is alive and well in South America. I don't know which is worse, my last statement or someone claiming to have picked up Hitler's Luger at a gunshow.
 
It wouldn't bother me at all. I bought a pick up years ago that an uncle had hit and killed a jogger with. Although I eventually used it for parts I never had the willlies about it......my uncle, however, was never comfortable in that particular vehicle again. I can see his point.
 
"This is ridiculous, everyone knows Hitler is alive and well in South America. I don't know which is worse, my last statement or someone claiming to have picked up Hitler's Luger at a gunshow."

BTW, that was in the "biggest lies gun dealers have ever told you" thread. Heh heh
 
If it was a gun I wished to have, the price was right and it functioned as intended why not.
 
This has come up before, and I will say the same thing I said there. I would own it no problem. In fact, there is someone on here that has a 1911 that has a ton of pitting from blood. I want it something hard. Owning something with a dark history kind of peaks my interest.
 
Personally, If someone was to offer me a gun that the previous owner had taken his own life, I would have to decline. There is something erie about it
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So, if you had to defend your family with your gun, and one of the perps died, would you then get rid of your gun because it felt eerie?
 
I would own a historical military weapon that may have taken lives in combat. I WOULDN'T want a gun that had been used in a homicide or suicide. Odd double standard maybe, but that's just me.
 
I have one...never lost any sleep over it. What are you going to do with a gun if you have to use it to defend yourself?...throw it away afterwards? The gun didn't do anything on its own.
 
Absolutely....

I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one, however if there was one for sale that I wanted, I would not hesitate in the least to purchase it.

"He who is in me is greater than he who is in the world."
1John 4:4 -- paraphrased
 
My uncle gave away his step dads WW2 1911 (the pistol his step dad used in combat) because it was used by his step dad to commit suicide. I would have probably bought it from him, but he gave it away to a friend before I knew about it.
 
I own my late great grandfather's 1903 and a 1911.

Family legend is that this rifle is what he carried in WW1. I know it's been used to kill. The 1911 is a bring-back. He traded it back in the 20's to a bartender to cover a tab and the barkeep later killed himself with it. Somehow later he got it back.

If you own any wartime K98, SMLE, 1903, P14/17 or M1 rifle/carbine it's likely it's been fired in anger. If you own a Yugo SKS it's very, very likely it was used in the Balkans. Some of the markings I've seen scratched into the stocks indicate that many of them were probably used to murder civilians with.
 
Kind of a pointless question. If you've ever bought a wartime issue rifle such as a Mosin or a K98 Mauser, as many here have, there's a chance you already did.
 
I purchased a used motorcycle to race that I watched a kid die on, so why not a gun? The gun doesn't know any difference.

The kid was going too fast around a corner in the foothills on a GSX-R600 and stood the bike up to brake...his front tire hit the curb, he went flying through the air (without a helmet on) and slammed head-on into a lightpole...pretty much killed him instantly. The bike came into the motorcycle dealership that I worked at after it's 30 day hold at police impound. I purchased it from the insurance company with blood splatter all over it. I didn't need those parts anyway, so no big deal. Got a good deal on the bike. The nickname for my race team was One Down Racing.
 
Your question is wrong. Guns are tools, inanimate objects, they are incapable of taking someones life. The prior owner killed himself. he took his own life, the gun didn't.
 
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