not if you're in saskatoon or toronto as police in these locations had been taking turned in firearms and keeping them for their own personal use rather than destroying them. (actually, can't say i blame them but it's still dishonest)
Destruction of firearms
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not if you're in saskatoon or toronto as police in these locations had been taking turned in firearms and keeping them for their own personal use rather than destroying them. (actually, can't say i blame them but it's still dishonest)
I have no quarrel with people who turn in firearms for destruction. The guns are their property and if they don't want to keep them or go to the bother of having a gun dealer offer a "widow's price" then they have every right to turn them in.
A few years ago I advised a cousin to do exactly that with his father's firearms. He had wanted to give them to me but a considerable time had passed and due to registration and executor issues acquiring them was going to be complicated and too much of an inconvenience to my elderly aunt.
A few years ago I advised a cousin to do exactly that with his father's firearms. He had wanted to give them to me but a considerable time had passed and due to registration and executor issues acquiring them was going to be complicated and too much of an inconvenience to my elderly aunt.
We are obviously biased, yet some others could be just as interested if they could feel a connection with the firearm in question.
I was lucky enough to be given an old rolling block rifle that had been obviously mistreated over the years. At the time I was about 17 years old. I always kept it and just a few years ago decided to bring it to my gunsmith for an evaluation. I was pretty sure that it was a Remington Sporter #2 in 44 rimfire but with all the Italian copies out there I wanted to be sure. Sure enough it is an origanal but by tracing the serial # and tool marks it proved to be a rifle that was never issued for any military purpose. If we could have matched it to a historical event the value would have skyrocketed. The funny thing is that when my gunsmith pointed out the damage done to the blueing that was probably caused by blood, it became clear that this old rifle had seen its share of hunting. Over 100 years ago someone depended on this firearm to feed themselves and probably their family. It made the difference between life and death and therefore has a history of it's own that is just as important if only on a smaller scale. I would love to hear the stories of the adventures it has been on. I would be curious to see what it would mean to the decendants of the original owner. Would they have it destroyed? Or would they see in this rifle a tool that made their existance possible??
All I can be sure of is that I will take care of it and hopefully one day someone will be taking care of my rifles as they also feed my family, not out of nesessity but they feed them just the same.
I was lucky enough to be given an old rolling block rifle that had been obviously mistreated over the years. At the time I was about 17 years old. I always kept it and just a few years ago decided to bring it to my gunsmith for an evaluation. I was pretty sure that it was a Remington Sporter #2 in 44 rimfire but with all the Italian copies out there I wanted to be sure. Sure enough it is an origanal but by tracing the serial # and tool marks it proved to be a rifle that was never issued for any military purpose. If we could have matched it to a historical event the value would have skyrocketed. The funny thing is that when my gunsmith pointed out the damage done to the blueing that was probably caused by blood, it became clear that this old rifle had seen its share of hunting. Over 100 years ago someone depended on this firearm to feed themselves and probably their family. It made the difference between life and death and therefore has a history of it's own that is just as important if only on a smaller scale. I would love to hear the stories of the adventures it has been on. I would be curious to see what it would mean to the decendants of the original owner. Would they have it destroyed? Or would they see in this rifle a tool that made their existance possible??
All I can be sure of is that I will take care of it and hopefully one day someone will be taking care of my rifles as they also feed my family, not out of nesessity but they feed them just the same.
