There must be a 'rest of the story'.

One would not gift such a gun to a left handed shooter for the purpose of actual use.

There must be more to it.

This can't be the gun involved in the deliberate missing story. A 'General' could not be so clueless.

This gun may or may not have been fitted to the general. Does he look to be a tall man with wide shoulders?

He was not the original owner. How did he obtain the gun and for what purpose?

The world wonders.

"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble