Would You Buy A Gun With Notches?

[Claude Clay]

would you buy an ~ 1895 revolver that had nothces (more than 5) and you truely thought that they were what they were--kills?
it is in rather good condition but has little collectors value cause so many are still kicking around.
your thoughts please.

 

[DoesItMatter]

Sure would, an in-animate object is just a tool, it requires a person.

Like the bumper sticker says... "Guns don't kill people..."

Look at all the World War 1 & 2 weapons you can purchase cheaply.
Am sure most of them have been used to kill the enemy.

Would you turn down the chance to buy a really cheap, but premium car,
if you knew that it had run someone over?

 

[ZXD9]

Don't believe in JuJu. It is what it is, a gun. I'm not too concerned with what bad things it may have been used for in a past life. It adds to its mystique and historical value.

 

[Dr.Rob]

And if all the notches on grips were actual kills noone would have been left alive in the old west.

caveat emptor

 

[rcmodel]

Who can say what the notches represent anyway.
Unless the gun has some historical provenance attached to it that can be proven?
The notches could represent:

The number of times he got bucked off his nag?
The number of times he cleaned it?
The number of whorehouse visits the guy made?

Or something else entirely?

Who knows?

rc

 

[kingpin008]

I buy guns, not stories.

If the gun was one I wanted, in a condition I thought acceptable for what I wanted to use it for, I'd buy it.

 

[jhco]

I would,, go for it

 

[inherentical]

Heck, yeah. I'd get him to drop the price because the wood was all marked up, too.

 

[BunnyPuncher]

I buy stories and guns. No issue to me. Just a bit of character.

As a milsurp fan I've never worried about that stuff.

 

[lukepriebe]

As long as the guy could promise that it truly was Wild Bill's.

 

[Sheldon J]

It's just a tool

A gun is just a tool, good, bad, just like a vehicle in the wrong hands of a drunk it can be evil, in the right hands such as an ambulance driver can save lives....

That and a $,$$$ gun the notches with a little history search can make it a $$$,$$$,$$$ gun!!!!

 

[Joe Demko]

I'm not in the habit of collecting souveniers of killings, especially murders. I'm also not in the habit of paying for stories. If either gives you a nice little piss-shiver, then pony up the cash.

 

[Polar Express]

It's an inanimate assembly of carefully designed and machined parts. Nothing more. If you like the product and the $, go for it.

 

[jad0110]

It's just a thing. Assuming it was fact that the gun had been used as a tool to kill, it'd make no difference to me. Again, just a thing.

 

[Rockwell1]

According to the histories I've read the whole "notches on your 6-gun" thing is a myth anyway. If you want the gun buy it and change the grip

And I don't believe in Ju-Ju or Karma

 

[FlyinBryan]

yes i would, in fact it makes me want to cut notches in my lasergrips.

 

[kyo]

I voted for getting it, but think about if a "tool" was used to kill thousands, like a sword or bow, would you think it was more valuable or less? Or would you think the same way?

 

[BHP FAN]

it's called ''character''...

 

[Joe Demko]

So, for example, Jeffrey Dahmer's stock pot and butcher knife have "character" and you'd be willing to pay a premium over similar used items from a flea market that had not been involved in the death of a human?

 

[SuperNaut]

I like nachos.



What?

 

[JWF III]

Buy a gun with notches?

I would buy it BECAUSE it has notches.

It would fit right in beside my top-break Meridian in .32 S&W.

Wyman

 

[Rockwell1]

The hillside strangler's 38 & duty belt went for 100k+ because they belonged too him.

The gun Jack Ruby used to kill Oswald went for ITHINK 165k last year.

it is what it is

 

[damien]

What if it's obviously a deer gun?

 

[CWL]

Depends on the type of gun. I wouldn't be interested in firearms belonging to WWII German Einsatzgruppen, or Japanese rifles used at Bataan or the Rape of Nanjing. Wouldn't be interested in firearms used by Russians or ChiCom to enact brutality either. These weren't really weapons of war, but weapons of oppression.

Just my choice in what I wish to own.

 

[MT GUNNY]

It would be a Good Conversation Starter!