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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.
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.
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."