Been through this. It’s weird.
if you’re comfortable, story time?
My wife’s beloved and jovial grandfather committed suicide with a .38 revolver after a prolonged bout of health issues that left him feeling desperate and dependant on his family for care. My wife’s father finds his dad dead with pistol laying next to him. After the funeral, we’re going through the possessions of the estate, and seeing that pistol laying on the table and watching everyone relive that loss was just terrible.
15 years later, my wife’s father dies of heart issues. Invariably, we find it again amongst her father’s possessions. It compounded the feeling of loss already being felt by the sudden and unexpected death of her father.
My brother-in-law has it now and has already had one stroke. He is petty shitty at taking care of himself and we expect he won’t be around too much longer. My wife and I know we get to revisit that damn gun again. Should it come to us, I’ll melt it with a torch into slag and drop it into a lake to rust into nothing.
I realize that we’re the last ones to know and feel what pain that weapon was at the center of. Our kids weren’t even alive when it was used that way, and they’d likely see it as a family curiosity piece. That said, like our family members, it needs to be put to rest once and for all. It’s been a part of too much pain.
damn. that’s one hell of a family relic. sorry for your losses and I hope there’s a long time before you have to see it again.
Thank you for sharing
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Do you have any plans?
Plan to melt the damn thing down. It has done enough harm.
A better plan could not be :)
The…the… what?
It happened to a friend of mine. I don’t think it was intentional. Guns are common heirlooms, suicide definitely makes it awkward though.
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I feel like I would sell this on ebay or something. Jesus.
You know that, even in the US, you can’t just sell a gun online and ship it to their house, right?
In fact, someone without a federal firearms dealer’s license can’t transfer a handgun to ANYONE who lives in a different state at all.
Oh. In that case I’ll give it to my son and tell him on Christmas day that his uncle killed himself with it.
“santa killed your uncle with it to make sure it works”
You can sell a gun online, the transfer just has to go through an FFL holder who will run required background checks.
Yee Yee that’s what they mean by not able to ship it to their house
I think you could, black powder weapons are regulated weirdly. But yeah anything that uses modern powder would need to be sold to a gun shop.
Black powder weapons aren’t legally firearms, yeah.
Silencerco took advantage of this once and made the Maxim 50. I don’t think many people bought it, but it was made just to utilize that loophole.
We out here tryna die fam.
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When you’re ready, you’ll know
… Who passes it down?
The loser, the one who decided to carry on the family curse and live, a selfish man.
FYI: It’s possible to kill yourself after having children.
I thought it was meant figuratively (the dead person passing on the revolver), so all the atributes listed were about someone who killed himself only after having children. Instead of just ending the curse.
Edit: ohh, sorry, I was super unclear with the “and live” (should have said at least like “and lived long enough”).
Damn selfish people, always trying to pass on their “being alive” disease.
Free gun fuck yeah
I wonder if it’s loaded!
Click click click
Nope!
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