Worst thing done to a gun?

So far the very worst thing that I have seen done to a gun, is to have seen them reach the height of glorification, only to see them demonized and slowly taken away, or priced beyond my ability to reach the very ones I want/need.
 
Guy brought a Drilling into the shop...16 gauge doubles over an odd European 7mm of some sort (had a hard time telling, bear with me). He had found that a modern 7mm-08 would chamber, so he touched it off.

Split the barrel open from the chamber forward ten inches, blew out the forend, cracked both shotgun barrels.


At the last gun show I went to in the PDR of Hawaii, a guy was wandering around trying to sell an original Luger snail drum that some fiend had cut and welded a 1911 mag to, trying to make a drum-fed 1911.


Amusing, but I just can't compete with that commemorative "M1D", though...Ingram stock? Whoa doggies...

Alex
 
How about the damaged 105mm gun on an M60A3 tank.

The tank commander ahead of us on a road march wasn't paying attention and chopped down a telephone pole with his main gun.

Had to duck to avoid being pulled out of the loaders hatch by the wires.

TT
 
I agree with SEAN WILLIAMS. No matter what physical damage may be done to any one particular gun by some clueless bozo, it can in no way compare to the damage done to the American way of life. The end of the gun culture will be the end of America.

[This message has been edited by nwgunman (edited April 27, 2000).]
 
Guy my dad met brought out the old Winchester rifle his grampa had left him. Don't remember the model, but it should have been worth a small fortune. It was original, pre-turn-of-the-century, in pretty damn good shape.... till the idiot BEAT THE RECIEVER DOWN WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER so he could SHOOT .22's in it!!! Said he couldn't hardly find ammo for it, and when he did, it was too expensive. Right proud of hisself for overcoming THAT obstical. :rolleyes:
 
Guy came into our ER recently. Seems he and a buddy both had the same brand of gun... His was in .45acp, his buddy's in .40S&W.

Somehow the mags got switched... the .40 mag was placed in the .45 and the trigger was pulled.

I understand the surgery went well... the shrapnel was removed from his neck, and it did miss the carotid...

My father-in-law collects S&W's...

One day he bought 3 50+ year old pistols at a gun show. He left them in the foam wrapping, and set them in the basement to be put in the safe later... and forgot about them.

A couple months later he remembered...

The foam had absorbed moisture from the humid basement air... The new rust colored finish on all three guns was not nearly so attractive as the origional S&W blue...

--Rich

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