$25 Ruger....

[Heliman]

I was looking through the handgun ads on a local forum when this thread came up......

https://www.northwestfirearms.com/threads/old-ruger-6-shot-handgun.332910/#post-2633225

It puts a lot of things in perspective. I couldn't even consider trying to buy this gun. With the sad history of events it kinda takes the edge off.......

I remember buying a "price too good to be true" Colt Anaconda. It wasn't until after I had payed for and received the Colt that the seller filled in the history of the firearm. It seems the original owner committed suicide with the same gun. I was surprised and a little sick to my stomach. The Anaconda was resold within a few days at loss to me, but it was gone. The new owner was tickled to death with it even with full disclosure by me to it's history. Not my cup of tea at any price.....

 

[blackhawknj]

To each his own. Look at how quickly shooters in this country took to the 9MMP and 7.62 x 39 rounds-which were used by our enemies. People collect Wehrmacht and Japanese arms-used against us.

 

[eveled]

To each his own. But it’s not the guns fault. I would have gladly taken it.

 

[Paul B]

Years back I bought an S&W K38 6" for $100.00. The owner used it to kill himself. The gun had fired exactly one shot after it was purchased. I bought it from the estate. The sad thing is I never could hit anything with it. Karma? Well I traded it straight across for a commercial FN Mauser 30-06 that later was the donor for a custom rifle, also in 30-06. That rifle is one of the most accurate rifles I own.
Years later I got another K38 and it shoots like a rifle. I hit very well with that one. Go figure.
Paul B.

 

[57springer]

:? The gun is an inanimate object. No "karma " or any other curse type connection . if it bothers you just don't buy it :?

 

[Poco Oso]

^ ^ ^ And there you have it. ^ ^ ^

 

[Bob Wright]

I mentioned this subject to my wife this evening as we were talking to one another. She is of the opinion that she'd leave it alone, while I don't care one way or the other.

My opinion, its a gun, an inanimate object, so no stigma would be attached to it. Nita, on the other hand, thinks there would some morbid cloud over it, even associated with demons. She did say she'd rather that I wouldn't entertain any notion of buying it.

I'm not, of course, but still, I would have no reservations, other than her objection, to owning the gun.

As to demons, we both believe in them, even demon possession, but not of inanimate objects.

Bob Wright

 

[Mike J]

:? The gun is an inanimate object. No "karma " or any other curse type connection . if it bothers you just don't buy it :?

I agree

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I have an old model flattop .357 that my wife's first cousin used to take his life. I had owned it before him, traded it to his dad, my wife's uncle. A couple of years after the suicide, her uncle handed it to me one day and said "I want you to have this." Until then I hadn't known what gun he'd used to take his life. Her uncle gave me several other personal items of his, including another gun (a Pedersoli Sharps replica in .40-65) and said "I want someone to have these who will use and appreciate them." I ended up having the flattop made into a .44 Special by the late John Gallagher.
I still have it and use it, and though I often think of "D" when I do, it doesn't cause me any weird feelings or anything like that.

 

[32magfan]

I bought my former home in McMinnville, TN at an estate auction. The mother and sister were selling the home after it had been “cleaned up” in the Main (can”t say Master anymore) bedroom. The man had a really bad breakup with his girlfriend and ended his life over the ordeal. I found it a very sad tale but it did not deter me at all. It was disclosed at the open house before the auction in hushed tones. I heard people saying it must be haunted...

The third night after I moved in, I must have not shut the door all the way to the bedroom. The A/C kicked on just as I was about to fall asleep. The door creaked as it opened up to reveal... the hallway. Nothing but me not shutting the door all the way. You really thought there was a ghost, hugh? Gotcha. :wink:

32Magfan

 

[Ale-8(1)]

:? The gun is an inanimate object. No "karma " or any other curse type connection . if it bothers you just don't buy it :?

Yep. I'm afraid that every time I picked up such a gun I'd flash on "this is the gun so-and-so killed him/herself with" and just not enjoy shooting it. I realize it's not the gun that was to blame, inanimate object and all that. It just wouldn't generate the joy of ownership and usefulness I have for my other guns. So I either wouldn't buy it in the first place, or if I already had it I'd get rid of it via sale or trade and not reveal its history to the new owner. JMHO

 

[blackhawknj]

When someone asked George Maledon, the "Prince of Hangmen" under the Hanging Judge Issac Parker if he was bothered by the ghosts of those he dispatched, he replied :
"Nope, I hanged them too !"
In nearby Princeton, NJ the old hospital was torn down in 2012, there is an apartment building there now, how many people departed life there, but no one is complaining.
I haven't seen war souvenirs, GI bring backs stigmatized on the grounds they were used against our troops.
When it comes to real estate I'd be more concerned with fire or flood damage, electrical or plumbing problems.

 

[blume357]

If I was interested in it I would only offer the seller what I thought the real price of the gun was worth... not even figuring in having to clean the dried blood off of it after getting it out of the bag. (I wonder about violating some intrastate B.S. laws with shipping hazmat material?)

Now with that said, if I was the seller and felt anything close to how he does about it.... what I would probably do is take my boat out into the middle of Lake Hartwell and dump the gun. Some will flame me, but I did that with a live artillery shell a number of years ago....