Buried with?

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9ballbilly

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I apologize if this is posted in the wrong forum.
My question is this: Can a person be buried with a handgun that they legally owned?
During my time as a LEO I worked for a very small dept., officers were allowed to forego carrying the dept. issued .357 revolver and use a personally owned firearm on duty as long as it was deemed "reasonable" by the armorer and the officer passed qualification with it. I bought a NIB S&W model 4006 .40cal. for duty carry. I am and will remain the only owner. Obviously I have strong sentimental feelings towards it. Although the rest of my guns will be inherited by my son, I would like to have this one interred with me.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
 
I don't know definitively, but I'm willing to bet that you can't do it in NY or MA. In NY your guns must be accounted for at death and turned in or legally transfered within a specific time. (60 days rings a bell, but I won't put any money on that) :D
 
Do it if you will, but an instant after death what you have with you is of no consequence. Where will you spend eternity?
Jerry
 
throw in a 24oz can of beer of your choosing too - Thanx!

I hardly ever drink, but the heck with it, bury me with a shotgun, my 357, a bottle of 36yr old sherry cask aged scotch, and a box of stogies:DPLEASE, I am dead so do this for me.

PS- Please leave the weapons loaded.:)
 
Who said you can't take it with you ???

I've seen it happen once with a rifle and more times with other items. The last one I saw, was for a union electrician and he took a union presentation knife with him. Your feelings, pistol and right. .... ;)


Be Safe !!!
 
Unless you provide for someone to inventory the guns in the casket just seconds before lowering it, and further - that they remain there until the casket is completely covered over with dirt.... Your guns will be stolen.

There are thousands of documented cases where people's valuables go missing from the funeral home, worse even - even cases where corpse's gold fillings are extracted.

What I outlined above doesn't even account for people exhuming the body and stealing the valuables and re-burying the body, which also happpens.

There are cases where cemetary operators exhume bodies, take an expensive casket, throw the body in a pine box, clean the expensive casket up and re-sell it.
 
I have to agree w/Count. I wouldn't trust it even if I was dead. My wife prefers cremation, so I might just go in the wind someday and maybe have some ash buried like Grandpa. I put a bunch of his old navy coins dropped right in the dirt when they buried it. As for my other Grandpa, I wouldn't be surprised if the dollar I put in the open casket at the wake disappeared(he used to give me a dollar as a boy). Maybe it is me; I just have wondered sometimes what happened to the dollar...
 
Give it to yer son, get cremated, have the boy load up a box of ammo using your ashes and some good powder and then a trip to the range :) hunters do it all the time.
 
Nice gun. Say, where're you planning on being buried?
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Beat me to it...... shame that a well loved gun would never see the light of day again but to each his own.

I hope I've got several years before I plan on leaving my guns behind, but I hope to be able to give my most loved guns to someone who will cherish them as I have.
 
As far a I am aware, there is no law specifically preventing it. Although I do believe there are a few things that can not be buried, I never heard of a firearm being one.

But you would have to check with the funeral home that will prepare your remains and work out the details (In advance :cool:) with them and your family.

Some caskets now have a lock on them that is broken when the lid is shut and the handled is turned to seal it. It can not be readily opened again.

If you plan of being interred in a Veterans Cemetery, your casket will be placed in to a vault and a slab of concrete will be placed on top, sealing you in for all eternity. At a veterans cemetery, your loved ones usually do not see the casket lowered and buried. (A lot of cemeteries now require the vault.)

Although there have been cases of theft at funeral homes and some cemeteries, these are extremely rare.
 
Being optomistic !!!

Am hard pressed to come up with a gun that I could take with me and pretty much talked myself out of doing so. I've decided to be buried with a good flashlight and Eveready batteries. Ya just never know?? Won't have to worry about anyone stealing it and on top of that, I happen to know the mortician personally and trust him. He's also a bow hunter and in-line shooter. .... ;)


Be Safe !!!
 
My Poppa always asked,,,

For a fresh pack of cigarettes to be placed in his shirt pocket.

My sister asked which of his lighters he would want,,,
My Aunt piped in with, "Where he's going he won't need a lighter."

I'm with JerryM on this,,,
You won't have any use for anything material.

Better to arrange a home for it beforehand.

But on the other hand,,,
This is the good old US of A,,,
Do what you wanna do if you wanna do it.

Aarond
 
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