Not just a pistol. Oh no. A "live 70-year-old Nazi wartime gun". For people who invented the language, their journalists are certainly sloppy with it.
God knows what might have happened had the deactivated pistol fallen into the wrong hands, as it had so very many times in the 70 years it had been patiently lurking in England, or simply acted on its own volition, springing from the cabinet and shooting schoolchildren at tea...
Poor bloody England.
You forgot the deadly part!




















































