It stars David Huffman, Ron Thompson, Richard Bright, Pepe Serna, Lee de Broux, and Stephen Elliott.
The Gun was inspiration for the song "Golden Ring", recorded by George Jones and Tammy Wynette in 1976.
It is shipped to a gun store, where it is purchased by an older business owner whose home was recently burglarized.
When the pawnbroker turns to get the blank paperwork, he loads the gun with his own bullets and departs at gunpoint after paying for the pistol.
They search and finally realize that after the recent death of his best friend, the father is depressed and considering suicide at the grave of his late wife.
The duo the pistol is intended for is planning to rob a porn theater's box office receipts, but their third member had second thoughts and backed out.
It somehow survives intact after passing through the metal shredder and is picked up by the driver of a dump truck hired to haul the scrap to a steel mill.
The bored boy looks through his parents' bedroom, finds the loaded gun on a closet shelf and starts to play with it, finally pointing the barrel towards his face.