The cake gun: S&W .32 top break.

[Will Carry]

My great grandfather was the sheriff of Baldwin County Alabama. He had a prisoner in his jail he was holding until he could be sent to the state prison. The prisoner's wife shows up one morning with this big cake for her husband. Grand Pa said, "Why this cake it too much for one man, lets share it with everybody." He cuts open the cake and finds a Smith and Wesson .32 top break revolver. The lady was not charged.

That pistol was passed down to me. In 1982 two 15 year old kids (who's father was serving time for armed robbery) broke in to my house in Nashville and, among other things, took the Cake Gun. After 50 years the gun was now back in the hands of the bad guys.

[Caster]

Cool story, crappy ending. Shame too, those are the best kind of family heirlooms, the ones with the really fun stories attached.