Smith & Wesson model 36. Worth about $400.
Lists for $749 new.
Nice find, but you have the risk of it having been used in a crime.
I’d have kept my mouth shut, but that’s just me.
How could they know, unless the BGs were good enough to record the gun's SN at the scene of the crime? True, there could be a ballistics match up with something, but what are the odds of any random gun in private hands ever being tested for ballistics?
The S&W Model 36 was introduced in 1950, so there are a lot of possibilities that have a higher probability than use in a crime. Chances that wife or ex-wife was housecleaning late hubby or ex-hubby's stuff? Or someone died and relatives just gave away the owner's things. Or it was left behind in an eviction. BTW, I use Halliburton laptop cases for taking pistols to the range, so this can't be a unique method of storage. They look identical to the Halliburton pistol cases.
"I’d have kept my mouth shut, but that’s just me."
Oh, but that would be wrong. ;)
Shoot, Sight-in, Shutup.
I would like to have a piston not traceable to me.