Years ago, a Marine Corps Captain contacted me about excess firearms he had slated for destruction. He wanted to know if the museum might be interested in any. My then assistant and I drove over to Weapons Training Battalion to see what they had.
In a rack were two over and under shotguns. I asked about them and the Captain confirmed that they were slated for destruction. One was a Krieghoff K-32 and the other a Perazzi. We took those two along with a couple of military small arms that filled gaps in the museum collection. Both shotguns had been used by the Marine Corps Shooting Team. I learned later that one, I believe the Krieghoff had been used in Olympic competition.
I never could find out much about the Perazzi before I retired, but Krieghoff sent me the whole history of that gun to include the original USMC sales order. I placed all of the information into the artifact record file.
They now reside in the collection of the National Museum of the Marine Corps. They will never be fired again, and will probably never be placed on display, but at least they were not cut-up and disposed of.
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