A Moment of Silence for Model 1917

[tennexplorer]

Serial number 47097. I bought the parts kit and the parts I got were in almost new condition. Almost no turn ring, great case colors, great bore and chambers. Internal parts are in great shape too. Serial number on inside of grips is totally legible.

An almost new condition 107 year old gun got destroyed. Makes me sad.

 

[1blindref]

Sad, but at least its parts will live on

 

[Retired W4]

Now all you need is a frame and a bunch of other small parts and you have a gun. Sorry, I can't help you there.

 

[Baxter6551]

Yes a darn shame. But you have some beautiful parts there. We can only imagine what has been destroyed.
When I used to do vacation relief for the evidence Officer I used to admire the guns the State guy had in his car when he would stop by to pick up weapons headed for destruction.

 

[JH1951]

About collectible guns, I often tell people "They don't make them anymore, and each year there are fewer of them." Some people look at me as if I have a third eye. This is a good example of what I mean....

 

[AlHunt]

Yep, another gun "Off The Streets"! Hooray for gun grabbers!

I heard a story a couple days ago that congress has learned of this (I can't remember the new phrase they're using for the un-destroyed parts) "problem". Someone has introduced a bill to require ALL these parts be destroyed.

I feel safer already.

 

[Truckman]

Almost no turn ring, great case colors, great bore and chambers.

To paraphrase Doug MacArthur, who was quoting an anonymous barracks ballad:

Old soldiers never die, and sometimes their bluing doesn't even fade away...

Your old soldier lives anew!......Ben

 

[handejector]

Makes me sad.

But- but- but----
Haven't you thought about how much safer the world is?
Think about the children!

 

[mikerjf]

Still dangerous. A gun that can "go off by itself" can easily find other parts and reassemble itself.

 

[JH1951]

But- but- but----
Haven't you thought about how much safer the world is?
Think about the children!

^^^ Well said ^^^
These children need one thing that they are not getting......
Parental supervision and oversight.... not a restriction on old gun parts.
(This comment comes the day after my sleepy little town reinstated a curfew. A group of 13 & 14 year olds have been out in the wee hours destroying things around town.)

 

[tennexplorer]

Now all you need is a frame and a bunch of other small parts and you have a gun. Sorry, I can't help you there.

All that is needed is the frame. All the small parts came with it, I just didn't photograph them. It was completely stripped and carefully too.

 

[6string]

Well, there's the infamous "Gun Sculpture" in Canada.
Lots of spare parts and frames in there.

Five tons of guns, made inert, then welded together into "art".

 

[Borderboss]

Heck, I would like to know who is selling parts kits for the 1917. That would be good information to have.

 

[Llance]

Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and at least a half dozen other countries have dragged in from private hands guns and made sculptors of them. When the Chinese, Russians, North Koreans or ???? come knocking on their door, who are they going to be screaming to for guns to repel the hordes, just like England did in WWII.

I think we should tell them to GTH. Guns in the hands of the citizens would have made Putin think twice, and it surely would have slowed down Hamas if not stopped them in Israel.

 

[H Richard]

Just makes me wonder, what happened to the frame?

 

[bamabiker]

Just makes me wonder, what happened to the frame?

They made it a guardrail so it can help some drunk from running off the road.

 

[tennexplorer]

But- but- but----
Haven't you thought about how much safer the world is?
Think about the children!

I did. Their little hands are really useful in replacing all the tiny parts in S&W sdjutable rear sights.

 

[T44spl]

I'm in a major Blue city and I've seen little old ladies bring in collectible guns like this whenever a gun "Buy Back" program takes place. You seldom see any "bad guy" guns, mainly Vet bring backs that some widow didn't know what to do with until municipalities advertise a "buy back".

 

[larryofcc]

Long before gun buy backs, the San Diego Police used to take confiscated guns out to the trench off the shore of the Pacific Ocean and dump them into the water from a boat. The San Diego Union had a front page picture of an officer holding a Henry Rifle about to throw it in. Holy Moly. Oh the Humanity. Rifle was probably used in a bank holdup. Big Larry

 

[larryofcc]

Real nice M1917 S&W

Arrived today. Pics elsewhere on this forum. Nicest S&W M1917 I have ever seen. # 6929, flat stock circles, and concentric grooved hammer. A good 99%, and probably unfired. I don't normally collect US martial arms any longer, but I could not turn this one down. Big Larry