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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:07:37 PM EDT
A year later the PD calls and wants to return the firearm.
What do you do with it. Very close family member. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:08:02 PM EDT
[#1]
i'd keep it.
it's just a firearm. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:09:52 PM EDT
[#2]
Reconcile to yourself the truth. that it was the person and not the gun.
A gun is a tool. Not anything else. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:10:47 PM EDT
[#3]
Take it back and sell it?
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CT, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:11:12 PM EDT
[#4]
Family member I would give the gun away to anyone that wants it.
I wouldn't want it |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:11:57 PM EDT
[#5]
Was it my gun to start with? or am I the legal heir to it? If so, get it, keep it probably - if I'm in the throes of some awful terminal disease, maybe I'll appreciate the irony of checking out with the same gun they did.
I wouldn't blame the inanimate object, nor do I think it would be a "reminder" but can't honestly say for sure - I'd definitely get it from the popo and decide later if I "needed" to get rid of it. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:12:18 PM EDT
[#6]
Just a tool.
Not a big deal. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:12:41 PM EDT
[#7]
I wouldn’t want it.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:14:22 PM EDT
[#8]
Speaking from personal experience, I told them to keep it. No interest in a gun with exactly one round fired through it that took a loved one’s life.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:14:41 PM EDT
[#9]
The gun had nothing to do with it. Sorry for your loss.
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ND, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:15:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: futurerancher]
[#10]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: i'd keep it. it's just a firearm. I would either sell it or destroy it unless it was a collectors item. Same as I would a horse who got spooked at bucked somebody in the family off and broke their neck. I just wouldn't want the memory around. There is no right or wrong answer here OP, go with your gut. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:15:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MRW]
[#11]
I've dealt with this, twice.
I do not want that firearm. Tell the cops to destroy it.  if this is more than just a hypothetical, message me if you want to talk |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:16:21 PM EDT
[#12]
It's hard to know having not experienced that but I think I'd be ok keeping it if it's a model of gun I like.
If it's not a very select few guns I like, it'd get sold. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:16:33 PM EDT
[#13]
keep it or sell it.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:17:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ranging-by-zipcode: Family member I would give the gun away to anyone that wants it. I wouldn't want it Yeah. Pretty much this. Someone will take it. Many years ago, I had an Uncle commit suicide with an gun. A few years later, another uncle (both by marriage, married to two of my dads sisters) was visiting and was showing us a S&W Model 36. Didnt think much about it. Nothing special, just a run of the mill Model 36. Then he told us it was the gun the other uncle killed himself with. Didn't seem to bother him, but it was not something I wished to touch anymore. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:17:39 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Media_Noche: Take it back and sell it? |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:17:57 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Michaelson]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: i'd keep it. it's just a firearm. This. I'm sure if they were able they would regret taking their life. Use it to save a life down the road if you get the chance. Maybe that'll help balance a scale up there for them. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:18:40 PM EDT
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I would probably carry it every day as a reminder not to succumb to the darkness.
The police department never offered me my brother's pistol back. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:18:54 PM EDT
[#18]
Take it back and sell it.
The shotgun that my great grandfather used to blow his head off used to hang in my grandads barn. When my grandad died nobody wanted it. When the house/barn were sold it ended up burning to the ground with the shotgun in it. Was fine with me, I certainly didn't want it. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:18:54 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HK-GUY45: I wouldn’t want it. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:19:00 PM EDT
[#20]
If he had face planted off his third floor condo, would you just let the city have it?
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:20:00 PM EDT
[#21]
Not interested in having that gun.
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MT, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:22:44 PM EDT
[#22]
We had a shotgun that my uncle used to end his life. Whether by accident or suicide. Not sure. Anyhow it was just another gun. We used the heck out of it.
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USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:23:12 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: i'd keep it. it's just a firearm. This, i am a sentimental fool. Maybe add my own count to it one day. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:23:34 PM EDT
[#24]
Gotta follow your gut on that. I have a suicide gun, it was basically stolen by a family member for the express purpose of committing suicide. I really had no intention of getting it back from the sheriff's department, but another family member did, and returned it to me. I'm not sorry they did, it's the first gun I ever bought myself and I still shoot it occasionally. But I totally understand that some people/situations might go the other way.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:23:58 PM EDT
[#25]
Thread title sounds like someone non-binary
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:25:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:26:30 PM EDT
[#27]
Keep it. It's just a piece of inert metal and wood (or plastic), not some haunted phantasm.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:27:11 PM EDT
[#28]
Yupik way the guns are disposed of.
Mostly thrown in a river or lake after burning them. |
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NY, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:27:44 PM EDT
[#29]
Now, when you say "very close to me", does that imply that I like them?
'Cause I have relatives that are theoretically close to me who I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:28:30 PM EDT
[Last Edit: VidaEterna]
[#30]
My 96 YO former Marine and AF Colonel grandfather decided to end his life on his terms. His biggest concern was having to have someone wipe his mouth after he ate. He was wearing a catheter full time and knew he was becoming delusional and paranoid. He knew it was time. We didn’t see it coming. He had a MBA from SMU, so no dumdum.
I told the police to destroy it or sell it, I didn’t want it. It was a airlite 357 Smith made of scandium. He liked it. He couldn’t believe how much power came out of something so light. I miss talking guns with him. He was a neat man. I do not agree with his choice for his way out, but I def. understand why. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:28:31 PM EDT
[#31]
Are we talking HiPoint or a Wilson Combat?
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:29:21 PM EDT
[#32]
My Uncle shot himself with a gun that was previously mine. It was his favorite pistol, and the one he carried the most.
My aunt has chosen to keep it, which I find morbidly odd. When I inherit it, I'll sell it. I was more pissed that's the one he used, since I'd sent it to CCR before I sold it to him, and the new finish was quite nice. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:29:53 PM EDT
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My friend owned a range and a lady brought in the SW686 that her boyfriend used to self-terminate after the PD released it to her.
My other buddy who was the RSO, cleaned the blood and skull fragments from it before it was put up for sale. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:30:06 PM EDT
[#34]
Take it back. Stick it on the top shelf of a closet. Never touch it again.
That's what we did |
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USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:31:10 PM EDT
[#35]
Because it was a suicide, it was low priority. Therefore it look 10 months for the firearm to be released.
I had documents whereby the police “recognized” me to collect the firearm. I immediately sold it @ $0.60 / $1.00 at a legitimate FFL. The family will use the money to support pre-teen athletics. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:31:48 PM EDT
[#36]
I don't like wasting useful things, so sell it or give it away.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:32:08 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NachoDip: Reconcile to yourself the truth. that it was the person and not the gun. A gun is a tool. Not anything else. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:32:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: redfish86]
[#38]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By pwcb2005: Snip You should log out and don’t come back for a while. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:34:16 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By steel_buckeye: Speaking from personal experience, I told them to keep it. No interest in a gun with exactly one round fired through it that took a loved one’s life. I feel sorry that you loved one did that and that you had to experience it. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:35:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By pwcb2005: I would carve a notch in it and name it after them. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/336822/nikita-mansurov-tbrender-viewport_jpg-3207532.JPG Da fuq?  Attached File |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:37:38 PM EDT
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My grandmother tried with a 22 short pot metal Saturday night special. She failed to get the job done. S.O. cleared the house and took all the guns. I bought the two she didn't use and they kept the other for evidence. When they released it my cousin wanted it. I don't understand why but I don't really care either.
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MP, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:38:51 PM EDT
[#42]
I have a revolver that my uncle used on himself when I was 2 years old. Just a tool to me. Sweet little shooter actually. I have the original holster and the PD evidence tag. I have no strange feelings attached to it whatsoever.
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PA, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:39:29 PM EDT
[#43]
I believe those of you saying it’s just a tool would change your minds if it was a loved one. My sister shot herself with my dad’s rifle decades ago. He got rid of it as soon as he was able to.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:39:32 PM EDT
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I wouldn't want it...
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SC, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:40:06 PM EDT
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1. No idea - hope never to find out.
2. If it were a Hi Point or a Taurus, they can keep it. Disclaimer - I don't own a HP or Taurus. 3. High dollar or collectible (>$1,000), retrieving to keep or sell. 4. In the middle, I think I'd retrieve, but see #1. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:40:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: FreefallRet]
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: i'd keep it. it's just a firearm. My dad had the gun his brother his brother accidentally killed his brother with and later committed suicide with. I have it in a safe, mom gave it to me after my father died. Only one of his brothers to live past 40yrs old. All died by suicide, accidental shooting or killed by a cop. Long time moonshiners that had very sad lives. My Dad was the only one to escape and live a good life for 78yrs. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:41:41 PM EDT
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My dad killed himself with a handgun 18 years ago. A year later, the Sheriff’s Office gave it to me. I put it in my safe and never fired it again. I gave it to a friend 5 years later, and he’s kept it ever since. I don’t believe he’s ever fired it either.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:45:34 PM EDT
[#48]
Haunted object - gone.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:46:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Concentricity: I have a revolver that my uncle used on himself when I was 2 years old. Just a tool to me. Sweet little shooter actually. I have the original holster and the PD evidence tag. I have no strange feelings attached to it whatsoever. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:50:07 PM EDT
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I wouldn't want it. Firearms are something I enjoy and would not want one around that would bring back bad memories and emotions.
I would tell LE dept to do what ever they want with it. |
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