Would you ever donate a firearm?

Without my gun club I would not have a close, convenient range to go shooting, especially my rifles.

So if donating a firearm to my gun club to help to pay for keeping the range open I sure would.

I may donate a gun (or two) to the club when I get too old or disabled to shoot just as a way of thanking the club for allowing me to be a member and giving me a place to shoot over the years.

To the right cause, sure.

ohihunter2014 said:

I noticed there was a grade 1/A M1 Garand donated to the club for a raffle.

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Possibly willed to the club by a passed member?

Fine Figure of a Man said:

Possibly willed to the club by a passed member?

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I’d bet that’s it. If you don’t have family that would appreciate it why not.

Absolutely. I have every expectation that when I reach the age of final downsizing, I will make a number of donations to worthy organizations.

I am not familiar with the grading system that includes "1/A", but it sure makes that M1 sound like a nice one.

For the right cause I would happily donate one (or more) pieces from my firearms Accumulation, although I doubt that very many of my milsurps could approach that grade ... a few probably would, though.

FWIW, I think that FFoaM has the best guess for your particular scenario.

ohihunter2014 said:

While checking my clubs monthly flyer I noticed there was a grade 1/A M1 Garand donated to the club for a raffle. I thought to myself who in their right mind would donate such a rifle to be raffled off and the proceeds just sit in the clubs bank account? Now, if it was for a good cause then i could see doing so. $5K in tickets must be sold to raffle the rifle which i thought was a pretty good idea. I found out also another guy donated an UZI.

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If there is a minimum that needs to be sold, then I doubt the owner just freely gave it to the club. I see these things all the time at high-dollar charity shotgun fund raisers where there is a $25K gun for raffle, but they're selling tickets that will equal $100K, so the vendor gets his money (and free advertising) and the club gets the difference

seems like a generous thing to do. i applaud the gesture.

460Shooter said:

To the right cause, sure.

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This^^^^

I never donated a gun for a raffle but there was a time when a dear friend of mine, who is not a gun guy but is a supporter of the 2A and a conservative christian, was in fairly bad shape financially, He had money for his bills but not much left over for any type of weapon, I went to a pawn shop and talked them down to about 80 bucks on a nice H&R 12 ga single shot, I gave him a stock shell holder and 10 rounds of 00 buck to get him started, hes had to present it twice since I gave it to him and for an old single shot it defends him well. Hes a good friend and actually had a hand in the process of how I got saved. Would I donate a gun to an org. for raffling purposes? Probably not, would I donate to an individual in need ? In a heart beat.

We have no heirs, so most of my collection is specified to go to the NRA and TSRA to help the cause except for the NFA items. This reminds me it would be good to change it so the club I've been a member of for over 20 years gets some of them. I'm sure my DCM Garand, M1A NM and RRA NM AR-15 would raise decent money or be much used as "club guns" for getting newcomers started in competition -- its how I started many years ago.

Thanks for making me think of this!

Years ago, when Bubbles was shooting CAS, we arranged for a matched pair of custom plated & engraved
Peacekeepers from AWA.
When they arrived, they were essentially unshootable.
Donated both to the SASS museum for display.
Denis

Would I donate a firearm? England requests weapons due to an imminent continental invasion.

Probably not anymore.

That's an interesting historical context.
I lived in England for two years & still have a great fondness for the nation & people of the 1970s.
England is not the place it used to be, and quite frankly I would not be inclined to give up any of my guns on a "loan" to them to get them out of a situation they've created for themselves today.

Working so hard to disarm themselves as a people, I don't see our gun owners donating in a national emergency to "save Britain" in current times.
Denis

I am always open for receiving donations of firearms!

Someone who is very unselfish would do such a thing

Yes, I would donate a firearm no strings attached for a worthy cause. Too many guns that don’t get used anymore. Sort of donating to our church or Goodwill.

Sure. I'm not going to need them where we are all eventually headed.

Church had a silent auction last year. People donated items to be auctioned to raise funds for the church. Any kind of item could be donated, but by far the most popular items were guns. The donors weren't dying and for most people the value of an item is greater than their tax liability on the same amount.

I have before and will again. The one's I've donated have gone to Friends of NRA banquets.