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What do you guys think?
If you were looking to buy a firearm and knew that someone had used it to commit suicide would it?.
Kind of freak you out or steer you away from buying it?
Think owning something with a ?confirmed kill? would be kind of unique?
Be indifferent about it and only look at it as just another firearm purchase?
Logically, it's just a tool someone misused.
Emotionally, it's creepy and I'd avoid it.
Ghosts and karma and all that stuff is almost certainly made up nonsense. However, in the small fraction of a chance that there is some validity to it, it's easy enough to err on the side of caution.
Would depend on the firearm IMO.
If it’s a S&W 5906 or Ruger Security 6 or the like- meh, probably pass.
If it’s a matching # Luger or GI 1911 or something else exceptional then it’s under consideration.
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Usually the surviving family members don’t keep a firearm with such history, they don’t reclaim it from the investigating PD.
How did it get back to the family ?
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Depends on who it was.
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Do you know any of the other guns you own haven't done the same?
I had a p226 stolen and recovered in Glendale AZ. Bunch of gangsters had used it for who knows what.
Sold it after getting it cleaned up and checked. Couldn't get past what it might have done.
Sometimes people trip and fall down stairs.
Sometimes assholes push people down stairs.
That doesn't mean "stairs are bad" nor does it make someone who pushes someone down the stairs any less of an asshole.
I purchased a used 3 inch Smith & Wesson Model 10-8 RB from Sportsman's Warehouse that has Puerto Rican evidence numbers engraved on it. What type of crime was it involved in? - I don't know, but it was almost unfired, finish challenged (from humid storage, not blood) and perfect for a knockabout carry gun.
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...............that is a little dark and morbidOriginally Posted by ray1970
For me the deciding factor is how well you knew the person that used it to take their life. (It is just a tool........)
As for those that are superstitious you can have it "cleansed." No seriously it is a thing, my wife is very superstitious and has inherited heirlooms from passed relatives and has had them "cleansed"
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My feedback
Sad but true, there is a market for this sort of thing. When a woman shot herself on my old range with one of our rental guns, we five or six calls the next day asking if it would be for sale.
If it was something unique that I really wanted, I doubt I'd be particularly haunted by that aspect of its provenance, provided it was not someone I knew. But if it was something relatively common place, I'd most likely pass in favor of one with less emotional baggage.
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Well, let me just file that away under "things I wish I didn't know."
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