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Yesterday, went to pick up something for my wife at a LGS and as I pulled up to the front, an older lady I recognized was coming out. We spoke briefly. She'd just sold a handgun to the store that had belonged to her late husband. I went in and it was still sitting on the counter. First thing I noticed was the older red Ruger box. Me, being a Ruger nut, nearly ran to it before anyone else in there noticed it. Opened up the box and in it was a 100% pristine, unfired (except factory test fire), blue, Security Six with 6" barrel....1976 model, with "MADE IN THE 200TH YEAR OF AMERICAN LIBERTY" stamped on the frame. I picked it up. I've got some GP 100's, but I've never owned a 6" Security Six. It just felt "right". It came home with me. Probably not going to remain unfired for very long.

Great find!

Those are my favorite handgun. I have one in 4", .357. I think I bought it in the early eighty's or late 70's

There was the Security Six with adjustable sights, and the more plain Service Six for duty carry. Nice guns.

Nice find, Skeezix! Can't be enough said for being in the right LGS at the right time.

When my wife and I were still dating we went into one of the local gun and pawn shops looking for wedding rings, but they had a gun sale going on, so instead of wedding rings, I came out with a really nice customized Glock 43x and she came out with a KelTec P2000 in .40 S&W. A few months earlier, we went to another gun and pawn shop that's known for the good power tools they carry, looking for a framing nail gun, but she came out with a Ruger 1911. I definitely married the right girl. LOL!

Haha. Yes you did.

Too bad you didn't catch her walking in!

My gunshop story like that was once around 40 years ago a lady brought in a pistol to the little shop I was kibitzing in that day. She allowed as how it was her late husband's and she wanted it gone from her house. What she whipped out of the paper bag was a little Browning Model 1900 .32ACP, in a decrepit old shoulder holster. Meh, we're thinking. And then she told the back story - her late husband had been a Flying Tiger and this was his personal sidearm when he flew P-40's against the Japanese over China. Yeah, right. My buddy the shop owner gave her a few bucks for it based on its condition and tossed it on the shelf.

About an hour later the woman came back and said she found something else that maybe should go with the gun. It was an 8x10 glossy black and white photograph of her husband wearing what was obviously the same gun, standing in front of a shark mouth P-40 with his arm around a Chinese soldier holding a Mauser with bayonet. And she said "oh, he told me once he had the holster custom made from the hide of a monkey he shot with the gun." My buddy shoved a paper and pen across the counter and had her jot down the story and serial number of the pistol, sign and date it. She left the picture there too.

After she left we darned near came to blows over who should own that gun. Finally, after tripling his investment, I went home with it. Best $120 I ever spent. Sold it a few years later for $600 to a militaria collector.