Reminds me of the story I heard that Jesse James’ mother would go down to the local store and buy a bucket of cheap pistols to sell the tourists as “Jesse’s personal gun”. There are still probably dozens of these floating around out there.
Pretty good scam.
Bat Materson used to do the same thing.
I met Col. Jeff Cooper and had the urge to ask if he would sell his 1911. I was in the middle of wondering if I could afford it and backed off.
There was a doctor who had his Scout rifle signed by Cooper with a magic marker. I realized he now had a rifle he would be nuts to continue to use after that.