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People who give up historic firearms for destruction instead of finding a buyer that will allow the public to experience them in a safe manner suck.
You can make a new MP44 with a lot of effort, you can't make a new MP44 with a history that highlights the efforts and accomplishments of a man who grew up dirt poor and went to Europe to bring some freedom to a family that still has photos of him after he fought for 36 hours to keep a failed painter with a dumb mustache from feeling any sense of contentment and all he got was spicy nostalgia and a gun his wife would later go on to use to spit on his memory all for the low price of a $150 gift card to HEB.
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.
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.