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The prints were confirmed authentic.  Everyone handled the gun at one point or another.

Ballistics confirmed that that gun had shot them all.  However, the gun itself had never been fired.

It was also proven that the drawer hadn’t been opened for fifty years.

The victims were all under fifty.

The last man on Earth died for the fifteenth time.

The machine jolted him back to life, repairing any damage within minutes.

It did everything to keep him happy, producing entertainment, stimulating conversations, and everything else it thought he needed.

But it could not give him a purpose.

Meaningless immortality.