Would You Be Happy With A Crime Gun?

I rehabed a crime gun. A Smith and Wesson Model 60 that was used in an Aggravated Battery.

I did a blog post on the little revolver and Snubnose.info asked for permission to pick up the blog post as an article. Since the early '80s when that revolver spent some time locked in an evidence room, its been used in the furtherance of law enforcement. It's a great little revolver and I know it will serve the next generation well.
 
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I Had One....

Python with a four inch barrel used to put a jacketed hollowpoint in a six foot five biker's forehead, he didn't survive.

I loaned the gun to a woman I was seeing on a casual basis that had testified against a 100% bad boy biker who had spent a few years in prison. Everyone that knew him and the situation was 100% positive he was going to kill her, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

First night he was out, he showed up at her door in plain sight of the Georgetown Hotel and bar. He had shown up at the bar first wanting to know where she was and everyone said next door at home. She opened the door with the gun pointed at his head and told him to leave or she'd use it. He called her a name and told her she didn't have the balls to shoot and that he was going to kill her.

Wrong answer, BAM, dead center forehead shot. There were ten or fifteen witnesses on the veranda of the hotel 20 feet away who heard him say he was going to kill her and they testified as character witnesses that that was exactly what was going to happen. She didn't even get held, it was deemed justifiable and never questioned.

Took me quite awhile to get my Python back, she bought me another in the meantime but I did get mine back.
 
I had no problem with a gun being used justifiably to eliminate a total POS biker. As far as I'm concerned that pistol has excellent Karma. :D

I would not want a suicide gun though, that might bother me. Too much bad energy would be in that gun.
 
I would have no problem owning a firearm that had been used in a crime. The gun can't load, aim, pull its own trigger, or decide where or how it is going to be used..........only the person holding the gun can do that, or be responsible for the acts committed while in possession of the firearm.
 
I would put in a display case on the wall!!!
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They have several wall display cases filled with seized guns in the Meade County Sheriffs Office, which is just below the jail. Quite a few sawed-off shotguns and rifles. I have some photos of them somewhere.

Edit: Found the photos. Re-sized and uploaded.

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They could register those with the AFT and sell them off as NFA guns.:p
 
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I've got several WW-II milsurps, both US & commie guns, all have the potential to have taken lives. They aren't doing it now, I have them safely locked away.

In 1969, my uncle used our family's Mossberg bolt action .22 cal rifle to commit suicide down in front of our barn. It was taken for evidence at that time, and returned eventually. Maybe our local sheriff was the exception, but there was no markings added to it while they had it other than a piece of freezer tape around the stock with the case number on it.

When my father died in 2006, my two older brothers were made executors of the estate, and somehow dad's guns were taken from the house before any of the rest of the survivors had a chance to ask about them. They still remain mum as to the disposition of the guns.

My uncle was my favorite of dad's brothers, and it hit me very hard when he took his life, but I did understand the demons that drove him to do so. He had been fairly affluent until he and my aunt decided to start their own business, which failed forcing him to file for bankruptcy. He went from being a supervisor of a company, to being his own boss, to being more or less a "go-fer" for a construction company, at barely more than minimum wage.

That said, if I had been given a chance to get this gun from the estate, I most certainly would have jumped at the chance to get it. Though it was a cheap bolt action .22 rifle (a lot like a M-44), it was crazy accurate, and I had always loved shooting it.
 
Up here in the wild old pipeline days, a loony tunes named Robert Hanson (a major league hunter and outdoorsman) decided his warped sexuality would include kidnapping hookers, flying them out to remote areas and hunting them.

Too accomplish his nefarious tasks, he took to stealing guns.

The Troopers eventually closed in on him and while executing a search warrant they found a cache of guns, many stolen.

Among the guns seized was a Winchester 12 gauge. It was originally stolen from a customer of ours and he got it back after the case against Hnason was finished. He hung on to it, complete with Evidence tag.

We are gonna put it up on Gun Broker. If folks buy John Wayne Gacy's paintings, let see who buys this one:p


WildthereisabookabouthimcalledbutcherbakerAlaska ™©2002-2010
 
I haven't read posts on pages 2 & 3, but what I have read, I agree with...it's the individual who takes the life, not the item used. That doesn't matter if it was a firearm, knife, axe, nunchucks, frying pan, rock, shoe, or whatever other method. In the end, the instrument used is just that, only an instrument. I wouldn't consider it posessed, or in any other way a bad omen/luck item to own.
I wouldn't have any reservations about owning a firearm that took a life, and for all I know, I may have one that has done so. I (doubt it) haven't asked & I don't care...until that gun somehow takes off all the fingers on my right hand for no apparent reason!:eek: Then I may ask questions as to it's possible history.:D LOL!

Now about that High Standard Derringer shown in the pics, that's a real bummer...it looks pretty clean from here...is it for sale??:) (yeah, I know...)
 
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