TTAG Reader Needs Your Help Finding “Lost” .45

TTAG reader RF writes:

I have tried everything I can think of to find a family heirloom. Here’s how it goes. My brother & I bought guns & shared them when we were young. I joined the service & I left all the guns with him. Some I bought, some he bought, some our parents bought. None of them were very special except for a Colt MKIV Series 70 [specific gun not shown]. He bought it, we both used it. It was special-we used to shoot it, clean it, disassemble & assemble it. It was the first big gun we had . . .

While I was stationed on the right coast, he died in a motorcycle accident, 1974. After the funeral I explained to his wife about the guns & how I really would like to get the .45. It was the only thing of his I wanted. I was willing to pay whatever. Not only would she not sell it, she wouldn’t let me have any of the other guns which I paid for.

Years later I contacted her again about the Colt. She had remarried & her husband sold all the guns. I really …Read the Rest

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