And it's not infamous for it's trigger.

http://dallas.texasguntrader.com/index.php?a=2&b=603281

I thought it was a 788.

That (I won't say g n) should have been melted down long ago.

Is it the Leupold or the Weaver mounts? Okay, bad joke.

I'm surprised somebody owns it. I would have thought the police would have permanently disposed of it.

Why would anyone pay that kind of money for it?

Concur.

Yep. Out of respect for the dead and their relatives.

don't know, but some sick bastard will.

"Bad guy" guns can bring some awesome money at auction...

But, mostly they are outlaws that came with more of a story than a brain tumor and dozens of innocent people.

I doubt this one will go for anywhere near the opening bid. (I could be wrong, but I hope not.)

Why? It's simply a rifle and a tool. I don't give it any more or less "personality" than any others. Seems the anti-2A crowd imbues firearms with "evil" characteristics all the time and to no good end. Why should we do anything similar?

It just rubs me the wrong way that someone is so willing to turn a profit off the souls of all those that died on that fateful day. This gun should have been destroyed decades ago.

Precisely.

No need to destroy the rifle. If I had my way, it would go to a rogue's gallery of historical items.

They didn't melt down Bonnie and Clyde's guns, and they killed more folks than cholera.

Why destroy the tool?

People turn profits off the deaths of others all the time. That sickness has everything to do with the humans involved, not the means of their greed.

Of course, Schumer and Feinstein and Boxer and Bloomberg will be quick to tell you about other "evil" firearms that ought to be destroyed so that sick people can't turn a profit from them or use them in any way ("assault rifles" anyone?). That 700 is nothing more than Harry Reid's fear-mongering "military grade sniper rifles" made real.

Agreed. It's just a gun. I get the same feeling looking at the derringer that was used to kill Lincoln. It is often portrayed as "the gun that killed Lincoln". The man, Booth, killed Lincoln.

ultimately, the gun killed less people than the pen that signed �bamacare into law will be responsible for.

Beat me to it.

Wether or not you think it should be destroyed, IMO it's really bad form to try to make money off the dead, and that's all this is. Quietly sell it to a museum somewhere if you have to, but don't parade it around on an auction site.

But, I guess that's the great thing about America. Everyone is supposed to be free to practice their individual set of ethics any way they choose.

*Cough* Safariman *Cough*

I don't disagree that the sale is in bad form. There is no dictating class.

Agreed. We are supposed to do the right thing because it's the right thing.

It's a beat up POS with decent scope rings. It would sell for next to nothing were it not for the infamy.

I personally couldn't buy it and use it without thinking about the creepy factor but it's not that big of deal to me either. I'm driving a vehicle that was involved in a fatality while I was driving it. It crosses my mind sometimes but you can't fix stupid, and you can't expect mentally ill to make reasonable decisions.

The only thing classless about it is the amount of time since the incident.




Travis

You guys getting all emotional about an inanimate object? Sound like liberals!!! If you want to get all emotional, do it about the guy that did it. Anybody upset at the jeans he was wearing that day? Didn't think so.
Lay it on a table and watch how many people it kills in the next several decades. It's just a gun, go hunt it.

What was the story on "The Dead Man's Gun?"

If I remember right there was either a story, TV Series,or Movie on that subject.

Yeah. That evil gun. We should probably even pass a law to keep other people from owning guns like that. Out of respect for all the people that gun killed.

This and nothing more, What's wrong here is someone trying to make a buck on some pretty sorry provenance (the gun's misuse by Charles Whitman) It isn't anymore a sniper rifle than any gun any of us own. Older 700 ADL's in 6 mm Rem are a scare item I've looked for years for on in good shape to use for deer and antelope hunting. Should we get rid of 223's and 308's cause they were used to shoot dinks and towelheads ? DUH Magnum Man

Imagine the rush to destroy all the M4's! LOL! It would spur the economy!

I wouldn't want it at any price....

The shooting occured in 1966 and the 788 wasn't introduced until 1967.

So you all geel the same way about auctions for medevial torture devices right? They should all be destroyed and not put out for sale of profit?

Deflave hit the nail on the head. This is something that if not a majority here, at least a lot of us remember happening first hand during our life. I wouldn't expect the same antipathy if this was Jesse James' gun or even a Walther owned by Goering. The historical aspect in those cases would make it pretty desirable to a lot of people. Simply hasn't been long enough in this case.
John