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I would have just assumed it was from his time in the army, since, you know... Watson was in the army. And also the fact he is a detective's assistant that got into scraps with bad guys frequently.
I mean it is, but you're very much not allowed to keep your gun after you leave. (I'm assuming OP is referring to "Sherlock", the modern-day BBC adaptation)
As I recall in the books, Holmes calls upon Watson several times specifically because he has a gun and can use it.
Yeah but even then that's one of the seemingly universal jokes about the military, that being folks smuggling out their service weapons. Great grandad's Colt/ Makarov/ Webley/ Beretta/ Luger/ et cetera. Pretty sure I've heard stories of soldiers jacking artillery back in the 1700s for similar reasons, have folks use and take care of a piece of equipment and they'll probably try to keep it forever, hell you can still find WW2 era junk that got smuggled out for basically that reason.
Except it really doesn't have a basis. There are few militaries from developed and stableish nations that allow you to keep your weapon outside of the situation that require it, let alone have a mechanism for service weapons to be kept after service. Several Nordic countries bordering russia notwithstanding.
I mean the newest example you gave is from over 80 years ago, so thanks for backing my point up