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Survey, Do you consider this in good tatste?

woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
www.gunbroker.com/auction/Viewitem.asp?Item=5204616

My vote is NO! In a law enforcement museum maybe, but not in my safe.

Woods
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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't think the offering itself is in bad taste, but I do question the value the seller has placed on such a relatively insignificant piece of crime history. By comparison, what might Lee Harvey Oswald's Carcano or John Wilkes Booth's pistol be worth? Further, would these latter offerings not be in bad taste simply because they were used by assassins to kill heads of state rather than by a serial killer to murder anonymous women?

    Why does man kill? He kills for food. But not only for food; frequently, he must have a beverage.
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  • CWatsonCWatson Member Posts: 964 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just curious,but I thought if a weapon was used in a crime it was destroyed afterwards.CW

    1.A near miss is still a miss!
    2.Before I got married I spent half my money on women and guns,THE REST I WASTED!
    3.Wasn't me!
    4.KILL EM' ALL AND LET ALLAH SORT EM' OUT!
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  • faldumfaldum Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The really sad part is the same ad (like so many others waiting for the right sucker to come along)has been running for a rather long time and will obviously continue to do so as long as the price (free) is right....One seller currently has over 3000 trinkets listed in his virtual storefont.
    Kinda like the little kid selling lemonade at $50.00 a glass..."It only takes one(sale)!"
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    The seller of this item gotta be kidding. Whose gonna pay that kinda money for a weapon that MAY have been used by a loser like Gilmore. A piece of history.........I don't think so!!!

    Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Classic example of one can ask any price they want, but if there'e nobody willing to pay that price it's all irrelevant. The seller may think this gun warrants $35,000.00, but apparently nobody else does, me included.

    B - BreatheR - RelaxA - AimS - SightS - Squeeze

    Edited by - airborne on 09/08/2002 10:43:20
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, imust addmitt that as i read the attachment that i had the same thought as saxon p'g, if we asign a conscience to an inaniment object we fall prey to the same illogic as our liberal opponantes. i also agree that the asking price for that portian of history is way out of proportion, still i consider it no more vulger than selling hickocks cards(aces&8's),masterson's unused guns(guns he bought to sell as bat's guns) and adinfinium. just my thoughts, but thanks for the little study into americana. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gary Gilmore's Challenger: $35,000

    Jack Ruby's Colt: $250,000

    Judge Dread's underwear...priceless.

    Why does man kill? He kills for food. But not only for food; frequently, he must have a beverage.
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  • sjc1sjc1 Member Posts: 130 ✭
    edited November -1
    Gee, I did not know there was a market for this stuff! Now maybe I can sell Lizzie Borden's ax.
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only thing I find offensive about the listing is that the chick on the cover of the playboy magazine was covered up.

    "Sometimes the people have to give up some individual rights for the safety of society."
    -Bill Clinton(MTV interview)
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,696 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is in bad taste. It is a collection of ghoulish crap and I can't see why someone would want to buy it.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    HEY!!! I HAVE LIZZIE BORDEN'S AXE!!!!

    Right out in my garage. Only thing is, it has seen a lot of use. The head has been replaced once, and the handle three times.

    What do you think I can get for it?

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • BoltactionManBoltactionMan Member Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't see it as being in particularly poor taste, but the price certainly is. Who cares where it has been? Like SaxonPig, I think it is only a .22 pistol certainly worth no more or less than any other Browning. If I could get it for the right price, I would own it, keep it, shoot it.

    In front of you is photographic proof, "Guns don't kill people"... You know the rest.

    KC
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,499 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just a guy fising for a sucker....Nothing that I find interesting or worth even 1% of the asking price.

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    Reminds me of the old story of three different Mexican villages, each of who claimed to have the skull of Pancho Villa. The debate over which skull was authentic raged for years.

    Finally, the skulls were examined by scientists, who stated that skull #1 was that of a teenage Pancho Villa, skull #2 was that of an early-20's age Pancho Villa, while skull #3 was that of a middle-age Pancho Villa, and thus each village's claim was justified.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Who's Garry Gilmore? Must'a been before my time... Anyway, who care's if the gun shot somebody, it doesn't make it work $35k... Maybe another $20 or so... Just to cover the cost of all the used paper your getting with it... He should at least throw in a free thing of whiteout so you can at least write on it again...

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • doomsknight62doomsknight62 Member Posts: 239 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Notice that it also did not sell. People should not profit from the sorrow of others. The person trying to sell that should be stuck with it forever.

    " God is in His Heaven, All is Right in the World. "
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,696 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gary Gilmore was executed in Utah in the '70s. He was, I think, the first person executed in the US following the Supreme Court decision that execution was legal, which followed about a 10 year hiatus of executions nationwide. Gary was some trash who shot two innocent people and he became a celebrity, made the cover of Time, teenage girls fell in love with him. He got the firing squad.
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