BlindJim,
yes, I have heard tales like this one too. I was talking to an asst. sheriff one day. He told me about a widow who brought in four Lugers and told the sheriff to "get rid of these things". The sheriff told the asst. sheriff to put them in the ovens. The asst sheriff told the sheriff that the Lugers were worth a lot of money that could be used to buy equipment for the department. The sheriff repeated his order to put them in the oven.
I always figured that if a guy had four Lugers that they must have been good ones. How sad. Some police chiefs in this area will give collector guns to the local museums and then they will sell them to dealers for money for the museum.
Big Norm
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