Reeder Custom Guns - Just finished cleaning up a

shotgun for a friend.

This will sound very weird and I did feel a bit weird cleaning up this shotgun.

The shotgun was used by someone who committed suicide. A couple of years ago a man took his own life while deer hunting. A teenage boy who was hunting in the area found him. Needless to say it wasn't a good day.

The gun was with the local police department after all kinds of testing and whatnot and the widow wanted someone to check it out and clean up the gun.

My friend brought this shotgun, a Browning Twenty autoloader, last night in a box . I opened it at home and found that the gun was wrapped in paper with yellow tape. Then with gloved hands I pulled it out.

I hate to say it but they did not clean it too well. As I said it was a strange experience to clean up such a gun.

I thought about buying it but something tells me not to.

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It puts no stigma on the object.
And if you don't feel right about buying it, don't do it. It still can serve someone well.

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This thread reminded me that back in college I got into a friends car, noticed some change on the driver's side floor and mentioned it. He said "That's the dead girl's money, I don't touch it." The previous owner had asphyxiated herself in the vehicle.

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How do you know where any gun has been? I have several over 100 yrs. old. My goodness Zepplins and leather belt driven motorbikes were flittering about back then. Lots of life has transpired. An object is just such but I understand and would probably pass it on without the story. If you can make a couple bucks do it.

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guns. Most were 45s. Old fellows with bad health problems would come in the shop, pick out a 45, write us a check for the gun and a box ammo, go home, lay down on the bed, put the gun either in his mouth or against his heart and pull the trigger. Invariably the check would bounce so we would get the gun back covered in dried blood. I would put it in the showcase with a sign mentioning that it was a suicide gun and it would normally sell within an hour or so. People like strange stuff.

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there was a .22 S&W revolver for sale pretty cheap. I asked why it was so cheap and the store owner told me, "This gun was used by a man and his wife to shoot blanks most of the time. They would throw a big party and in the middle of things they would get into an argument and one of them would pull the gun and shoot the other. The "shot" one would flop on the floor and people at the part would go nuts. It got to be a big thing. The last time they did it whoever loaded it used .22 Long Rifles. When the "fight" got going the wife pulled the gun and shot her husband. He yelled 'YOU SHOT ME!' and she said 'TAKE THAT!' and shot him again. Then the blood started flowing he collapsed on the floor."

He said they got him to the hospital in time to save him but they decided they did not want that gun anymore.

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Just finished cleaning up a

It wasn't the shotgun's fault that it was misused.

Right on Jim

Suicide car story

If I knew a story, and it bothered me, I’d pass

when our shop was in Florida we got quite a few suicide

Years Ago in a North Phoenix gun shop

so far as 37 yr VFF and emr I have missed this hope it stays