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Except you are not talking about the use he had in mind for the gun. There can be more than one use for a thing. As an example, here's a very useful car:
salvage yard sign
Except that sign isn't sitting on a road. Walking around an area where bullets might fly with an empty gun is equivalent to sitting on the road with a car out of gas.
I don't care if you are holding a sign that says, "I should've gone electric!" while you're sitting there with your car out of gas... If you did it on purpose, that is stupid.
Again: Useless.