Having read the definitive biographies by Carlos Baker (who named the gun---a Boss) and James R. Mellon (most poignant and descriptive of the end), I could take no pleasure from owning or using the instrument of EH's death.
True, the Boss of itself was not different from any other object. It's the spirit---or thought process, if you like---that concerns me. And the spirit is concerned with the significance that relates one object to another.
EH saw the totality of things, which only the eye of the spirit can see. As an old Samurai with failing body, he chose his Boss with tight choke he had used for years of pigeon shooting to bring his epic flight to an end.
Guns are more than just instruments wielded by men's hands, as tens of thousands of members' messages revealed to me here over the years.
