Haunted guns

Haven't ever considered such a notion as a haunted gun. But then again, I don't buy into hauntings of any other kind and won't make exceptions for firearms.
 
Ghosts?
I have lived in a haunted house and a haunted apartment building. The apparitions were witnessed by extended family members and next door neighbors.

They are not all scary. The apartment was a 4 flat converted school. The ghosts were the spirits of the children and they were merry pranksters – just like kids. The 2 young women next door were freaked by “the haunted closets” and moved out. My wife & I saw it as just funny.

I do believe that someone who is “sensitive” can be fascinated / drawn to a firearm, for good or bad.
 
I am one to believe that nearly anything is possible. Maybe the prior owner of that M1 was "haunted" themselves by the experiences that had using the rifle during wartime, and that "stuck" to the rifle and your friend pixked up on it? Maybe your friend just thought "what if this rifle was used to kill back in the war?", and that projectex into their dreams. Either way it affected them. I always wondered what any surplus rifles i have handled could say they saw if they could talk, then again i may not want to ask such a question.
 
Supernatural explained

Great explanation of the supernatural is attributed to 19th century French painter Gustave Courbet who, when asked to paint angels for a church, replied: "I have never seen angels. Show me an angel and I will paint one".

Ghosts, angels, demons, gods and godesses, flying broomsticks, hauntings, and love potions (except tequila) are all products of our imagination. We love to believe so much that movies and books about such things become blockbusters and best sellers. Bullets that travel in a horizontal curve resulting from whipping a pistol in an arc while shooting (movie "Wanted") or a haunted rifle has as the same validity as the flying car in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." Regardless of the make believe character of such a car I still want one.
 
hm, laugh if you want but i owned a valmet shotgun (3200 rem) that fit your description. traded it off. fwiw, bobn
 
I have a bad habit of leaving the TV on in the living room and falling asleep in the bedroom. One night I woke up and the dog was standing at the basement door looking down the steps (I can see the door from my bed). It sounded like people mumbling but kind of tinny. I thought it was the TV and the sound was going down a return duct. I went to turn the TV off and it was not on. I went down in the basement and nothing. A couple months later same thing. I sleep hard so maybe it happens a lot, I don't know. Dog does not know what to make of it. Anyway, I don't think anything ever happened in the house, but I did have a hell of a Arasaka collection in the basement. I am too old to worry about it.
 
In spite of having one experience that a lot of people would say was a "ghost encounter", I don't believe in ghosts. At least not in the "trapped souls" sense (there are other theories that I find interesting). I believe when you die, you either go to heaven or to hell. Either way, you ain't hanging around to "haunt" anything. Go to one, you don't want to come back. Go to the other, and you wish you could.
 
This is either baloney or I'm not sensitive to such things. I've had several old military rifles that I'm sure saw action and I've had no such experiences.

I'm inclined to believe this makes good campfire stories but has no truth to it.

Tony
 
Haunted gun? Hmmmm... Don't know if I buy that or not. There are some ghost stories in every family, including mine.

I've had very realistic dreams including dreams where I've flown, been chased for miles, fallen from great heights, been shot, etc. I woke up and knew I'd been dreaming. Somebody who isn't certain of that might have other issues. I'd consider that in dealing with such people.
 
I owned a Ruger Mk. II pistol that was used in a suicide. Shortly after firing it for the first time, I started having nightmares about reassembling the pistol after cleaning it, so I sold it. :D
 
Hobie, I am not sure how you don't buy it w/the amount of experiences you know about in your family.

My wife and I spoke for the 1st time the day after I prayed to God and my Grandmother(may she rest in peace...she had just passed the same month I was praying + very recently). Our first date was two days later, and we have two children so far w/more on the way. There is no doubt in my mind Grandma was involved, and we both believe it was a match made in heaven(thru some kind of backroom deal). My father-in-law is deceased, and I never had a chance to meet him. My wife still cries when she thinks of him.

Supposedly - though I wasn't there - my Aunt had a music box from Grandma start playing the same month she passed. This music box hadn't played in years. There have also been times when I swore I smelled pipe tobacco, but I admit the last two are more campfire a stories I guess. I will also add however, to the post speaking about believing in heaven and hell only. Remember, some people's journey thru the afterlife could be longer than others for a myriad of reasons.
 
I owned a Ruger Mk. II pistol that was used in a suicide. Shortly after firing it for the first time, I started having nightmares about reassembling the pistol after cleaning it, so I sold it.
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I think I bought your haunted Mark II. In fact, I'm sure of it. It only fired intermittently when I would press the trigger, something like this:

squeeze.....squeeze.....squeeze.....BANG....squeeze....BANG....BANG....

I disassembled it, cleaned it and it still did the same thing. Then I completely disassembled it, including all of the trigger components. Found the problem - previous owner permitted crud to accumulate all over the trigger spring plunger, trigger spring and top of the trigger (internal). I cleaned the "ghost" out of it, and now it works perfectly.:D FYI, this gun really is a PITA to take down and reassemble to that degree!
 
I don't really believe in ghosts in the traditional sense of the word. I do believe, and you can call me superstitious if you want, that evil forces can and do sometimes attach themselves to certain objects. While I don't shy away from military items because they might have been used to kill someone (I don't believe that killing is necessarily evil, it depends on the circumstances), I wouldn't want to own a firearm that had been used for a murder or suicide nor would I want to own a gun that I knew had belonged to an evil person (I've seen discussions about guns supposedly belonging to figures like Hitler, Stalin, or various serial killers). Perhaps I am a bit superstitious, but I don't even like to own objects with certain symbols like pentagrams or swastikas on them.

I guess my point is that I'm not going to judge the gentleman described by the OP. He may very well have had substance abuse or mental issues or it could have been that the rifle in question just gave him the creeps for reasons real or imagined. If an item in your posession creeps you out, I can't really think of many good reasons for keeping it around.
 
I think that possibly all my guns have become haunted! The ghost must hate violence or accuracy, because lately my shooting accuracy has been crap and I know it can't be my fault, so maybe all of my guns are now haunted by the semi-blind ghost. I guess I should tell my wife that the only good solution is to buy several new guns that are not afflicted.
 
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