Molly Ivins once wrote that she didn’t support gun control because she hated guns, but because she just liked to see knife fights.
Among the things Dad left behind when he died early last year was a loaded .38 revolver on his headboard, a Colt Cobra (3-inch barrel, not the stubby). NewMexiKen has never owned a gun — and never fired a pistol — so I just put it away (empty!) until I got around to selling it. Which is now.
The gun has no value beyond its use as a tool. Or as one firearm expert I talked to put it, “It’s a shooter, not a collector.” Even so, it has some value. Indeed, one of the places I may go to sell it is among the Brady Campaign’s list of Top 120 Gun Stores with the Most Guns Traced to Crime.
I’d better wipe the thing clean.