Souvenirs of Death

Finally found it.  On this double feature, at the 1:36:47 mark is a 1948 vintage anti-gun-message short film.  Turn in your war trophies you irresponsible buffoons.  The narrator anthropomorphizes the pistol.  Makes it seem to have a mind of it's own, and partly responsible for the carnage it does.

Souvenirs of Death 

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10,000 people will be felled by war trophies in one year alone.  1:37:13  Wow.  That's a lotta dead people for 1948 alone.  No one shot with a domestic pistol in that 10k?

It's a 1910 Mauser and the film says it is .38 caliber.  Maybe the 1934 model.  But none of them match up to the year the movie or film was made in a 9mm Kurz (.380) version.  Standard gun-nerd nit-pick.

Oh noes!  The gun's only purpose is to puncture holes in human beings!  1:38:38

Yeah?  So?  Sometime you need something that does that for perfectly legitimate reasons. 

"You need better safe-storage laws, buddy."  1:39:25

I like how the cap gun revolvers all make machine gun noises.

Wait, is that June Cleaver?   Yup.  1:42:03

If you make your husband get rid of it, June, how will he protect you from that masher Eddie Haskell?

Ahhh, I see.  It seems a lotta war souvenirs all ended up in the hands of mobsters, then magically turn into P38s for the test firing portion.  (maybe a P08, I don't get a good look, but I also don't see toggle action)  Hmmm.  A barrel full of cotton for a bullet stop?  What could go wrong?  1:43:50

Worst crime wave in the nation's history because of bring-back pistols.  Not so much.  1:44:04

 Oh dear.  Then a cop shoots a fleeing suspect.  Might be a good shoot.  Bad guys had shot another person and were thus a threat to the lives of others.  1:45:21

Man, cars from the 40s sure did burst into flames easily.  1:45:50.

So, the cop died.  The get-away driver took one in the head, I bet he died.  The cop-killer was in a flaming car accident and not wearing a seatbelt.  A guy in the gambling den caught a slug.  The cop plugged a guy in the back.  But the papers say only 3 people fatally killed to death.

Looks like Mao/Chiang Kai Shek and TWA are in the news, too.

Mind you own business, Hoover.  Don't you have a philandering politician to tape record canoodling?