People who give up historic firearms for destruction instead of finding a buyer that will allow the public to experience them in a safe manner suck.
You can make a new MP44 with a lot of effort, you can’t make a new MP44 with a history that highlights the efforts and accomplishments of a man who grew up dirt poor and went to Europe to bring some freedom to a family that still has photos of him after he fought for 36 hours to keep a failed painter with a dumb mustache from feeling any sense of contentment and all he got was spicy nostalgia and a gun his wife would later go on to use to spit on his memory all for the low price of a $150 gift card to HEB.
Firstly its an Stg44, secondly her father brought it back not her husband, thirdly it wasnt lovingly maintained in a collection it was just an old gun so poorly kept it was inoperable unsecured sitting in his closet, it looked like a rusty old piece of shit. Fourthly, the police recognised that it wasnt just some bangers .38 hipoint, took the gun for safe keeping and are helping the owner sell it legally as a collectable.
The woman did the right thing, an unsafely kept old gun is just that, historical provenance be damned.
All guns are unsafe until you have checked and cleared them. Im guessing the lady who didnt know what the hell she had didnt know how to release the magazine or check the chamber.
In the aviation world we say airworthy, unairworthy, and cannot possibly fly. There’s a difference between “the fuel gauge is broken” and “the left wing is missing.”
Idk man. The odds don’t work like that. You ever seen a firearm someone has taken care of malfunction? Odds are it won’t fire. Leave it somewhere for almost a century unkept? It’s done.
But they both fire the same? Idk, I live somewhere where not everyone can get a gun.
But I mean, you cannot see on the weapon if the owner had a mustache or not? It could also just be a weapon that was never used and was only rotting in the basement?
The Stg44 was produced from 1944 by the german army in ww2. So very late in the war, very few of them (comparatively to most ww2 guns) were made and as you can imagine, guns from the “losing side” tend to be destroyed. They were pretty much the first “assault rifle” and the AK47 adapted a lot from it. It was found in Conneticut so it was almost definitely brought home from WW2 by a US soldier, it was almost certainly used in anger.
Undoubtably its worth preserving as a very rare example of something of historical significance, but I dont blame someone for not recognising it as such.
People who give up historic firearms for destruction instead of finding a buyer that will allow the public to experience them in a safe manner suck.
You can make a new MP44 with a lot of effort, you can’t make a new MP44 with a history that highlights the efforts and accomplishments of a man who grew up dirt poor and went to Europe to bring some freedom to a family that still has photos of him after he fought for 36 hours to keep a failed painter with a dumb mustache from feeling any sense of contentment and all he got was spicy nostalgia and a gun his wife would later go on to use to spit on his memory all for the low price of a $150 gift card to HEB.
TBH it’s a Nazi German Rifle, fuck em. It’s not like anything new can be learned from this evil relic.
Firstly its an Stg44, secondly her father brought it back not her husband, thirdly it wasnt lovingly maintained in a collection it was just an old gun so poorly kept it was inoperable unsecured sitting in his closet, it looked like a rusty old piece of shit. Fourthly, the police recognised that it wasnt just some bangers .38 hipoint, took the gun for safe keeping and are helping the owner sell it legally as a collectable.
The woman did the right thing, an unsafely kept old gun is just that, historical provenance be damned.
It’s either unsafe or it’s operable.
Also, bangers use 22’s because despite popular beliefs, they’re effective and quieter.
All guns are unsafe until you have checked and cleared them. Im guessing the lady who didnt know what the hell she had didnt know how to release the magazine or check the chamber.
An operable firearm is inherently unsafe, they fling lead at high speeds, that’s kinda the whole point
I was moreso speaking in the context of it wearing down over time like that, but I didn’t really articulate that
In the aviation world we say airworthy, unairworthy, and cannot possibly fly. There’s a difference between “the fuel gauge is broken” and “the left wing is missing.”
It can be both. A bomb that was a dud can still eventually explode. Just not when you wanted it to.
Idk man. The odds don’t work like that. You ever seen a firearm someone has taken care of malfunction? Odds are it won’t fire. Leave it somewhere for almost a century unkept? It’s done.
Shit randomly malfunctions all the time. Never assume that a gun is totally safe just because you maintain it.
What I’m saying is, 99% of the time, a malfunction leads to it not firing even when you want it to.
Why do you assume everybody would know the value of a random knick knack they have lying around?
But they both fire the same? Idk, I live somewhere where not everyone can get a gun.
But I mean, you cannot see on the weapon if the owner had a mustache or not? It could also just be a weapon that was never used and was only rotting in the basement?
The Stg44 was produced from 1944 by the german army in ww2. So very late in the war, very few of them (comparatively to most ww2 guns) were made and as you can imagine, guns from the “losing side” tend to be destroyed. They were pretty much the first “assault rifle” and the AK47 adapted a lot from it. It was found in Conneticut so it was almost definitely brought home from WW2 by a US soldier, it was almost certainly used in anger.
Undoubtably its worth preserving as a very rare example of something of historical significance, but I dont blame someone for not recognising it as such.