Although I'm torn, I ultimately agree with your point. On the one hand, it's a viable weapon, and if Rittenhouse didn't want to be associated with it, he could always sell it. However, there's always the possibility that the buyer would be unstable, seeing the weapon as some kind of symbol and eventually using it to "make a name for himself".
But as you said, it's his to do with as he deems fit.
However, there’s always the possibility that the buyer would be unstable,
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Doesn’t the Fed background check detect that condition?
All bets is he is moving out west to some place to be left alone and get on with his life. Wisconsin and IL are over for this guy. Put the lower in his attorneys hands and leave it in his safe to cover any future costs.
That $200 block of machining was just a tool, he saved his own life, just barely. If he has any understanding of what happened to him, in the publics mind, he needs to stay physically fuck away from people, non gun rights political discussion, crowds and have a very limited relationship to public figures.
NRA conventions and Shot Shows with professional security if he wants to earn a good living for very little work public speaking. PodCast about the failures of the american justice system, but stay out of physical world public eye, stay the fuck away from social media that may leak ones location. I am telling the young man to hide out and take some quiet donations and stay more underground than George Zimmerman has for nearly a decade.
In that mode, if he stays in the US he should get some training, carrying a pistol when going to town, and the whole family should be upgrading to a 7.62 Pattern Rifle with a good optics rail and a solid bipod mount. A place with a fence, long driveway and suitable for dogs and cameras owned by a non descript corporation for the property tax records.
My concern with him selling it is that it would be a grotesque auction. Yeah, he could donate the proceeds, but it simply feels dirty. This kid doesn’t want any more attention and he’s been pretty good about staying away from the spotlight.
As originally stated, his gun—his choice. I think it’s the right choice. But we don’t get a vote. Ha ha.