Don Gwinn
Moderator Emeritus
I agree. Remove barrel, smash with hammer, cut with torch or saw, fill with cement, or otherwise rendet it a non-barrel, and he's legal again. There is no way for him to "turn it in" without risking arrest, as I understand it.
Musta been a cheapie for him to cut it off in the first place.
Gave it an acid bath and put it in a dead drop? Very Le Carre, but whatever. Sure seems like a lot of trouble to go to.
Ahenry, if the "wrong he has done" is owning a gun that is forbidden to peasantry, then destroying the gun would be the closest thing to "rectifying the wrong he has done," wouldn't it? You're surely not suggesting that the only way for him to remain a man is to accept a prison sentence because he owns a gun with a short barrel, are you?
Musta been a cheapie for him to cut it off in the first place.
Gave it an acid bath and put it in a dead drop? Very Le Carre, but whatever. Sure seems like a lot of trouble to go to.
Ahenry, if the "wrong he has done" is owning a gun that is forbidden to peasantry, then destroying the gun would be the closest thing to "rectifying the wrong he has done," wouldn't it? You're surely not suggesting that the only way for him to remain a man is to accept a prison sentence because he owns a gun with a short barrel, are you?