When my dad died [1993] he had his original Army issue Colt .45 1911 from WWII . I don't remember how he got it home but he did. He was recalled for Korea , and issued another .... had to leave that one behind .
He also had an M1 Garrand & a Thompson .... I have shot them both.
His widow [not my mother] wanted to just hold on to everything till she thought it through.
She gave his guns to her brother ..... who died of a heart-attack , in open court while being tried for crimes against her ! His wife was imprisioned for similar charges. Then she [widow] died from cancer [2003] !
I have no Idea where those guns ended up ..... kinda scary.
I had been talking to the Texas Rangers [by phone] ... as i was suspected to be part of the 'rip-off' team .. [due to our last names being the same]... I was not. She was thought to be my mother [she was not] @ the time, I had no idea what her family was doing to her.
I told them [Rangers] about the guns & to be on the look out for them ...... I never heard another word about it/them.