What would your family do with your collection after you die?

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Great read Tirod. Guns and firearms may also fall into the category of "your children don't want your stuff." I'm "only" 53 and got into firearms late in life at 43. I've set up a self-moratorium on firearm purchases, as in if I get one, one has to go. One recent and notable exception was my departed FIL's Viet Nam bring back (complete with paperwork) French MAC 50. I cleaned, lubricated, and fired it once. I doubt I'll fire it again given the rarity and lack of spare parts. My self-policy is not because I need the money, though space is at a premium, but because I shoot maybe a dozen times a year total and find that a few of my guns don't make it to the range more than once every other year. They can go. I've also consolidated calibers. My son, despite being about to emigrate to Israel and join the IDF, is not really interested in firearms all that much (but that could change), I have a "new to me nephew" who IS, and I expect he'll inherit a few. In short, while all of my guns are "upper middle class" kind of firearms, I only have two really valuable ones. So, I do intend to have a solid plan in place for my firearms, such that I'll probably be down to 5 or less that are designated to be inherited.
 
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Well that's a no brainer. Sell for whatever they could quickly get and spend on some worthless toy. No one in my family cares for anything except maybe a cell phone or video game. So. I'll just have to take them with me.
 
We went out to dinner with a relative and talk about it with the wife in front of each other. If something happen to us the other will take care of selling, sound our kids are not very interested for now. Time will talk opportunely.
 
I am 80++ and during the covid pandemic I visited my lgs who does consignment sales. I discovered there is a real demand for firearms. I have sold off more than half of my collection at prices 2x to 3x what I paid for them. Of couse I turned around a bought an annealer and more dies.
I hope my grandson wants the rest of the firearms, if not, I will have them donated to the NRA.
Ammo and reloading stuff (of which there is a bunch) I am hoping to give to my grandson if he wants it. In the meantime I am happily reloading and shooting each week at the club gun range. Since I have a spouse who says buy two or three when I go to the lgs, I am able to shoot much longer than most at the range. Love that woman.
 
I never really thought much about this until three years ago when my truck got hit (badly) and I woke up three weeks later with a fractured skull and a whole lot of other injuries, not knowing who I was or what happened. I think I'll have a will made up.
I didn't really think of a will until the wife passed, rather quickly, following a 6 month whirlwind of sudden, severe maladies brought on by her chronic illness. Alone, as we had no kids, I felt the need to know where my stuff was going, so the fighting would be kept to a minimum amongst siblings.

After one dies, nothing matters. You are gone.
Not to you, of course, but your belongings can be a windfall to the wrong people as easily as the right, without a proper will.
 
Not to you, of course, but your belongings can be a windfall to the wrong people as easily as the right, without a proper will.
Too many times I have seen siblings at each other's throats. A good friend of mine was an attorney who was an only child, parents deceased. In his mid 40s he died of a coronary much like my brother-in-law. Imagine an attorney less a will? Distant cousins were at each other's throats as they raped, pillaged and plundered through his estate. Oh yes, he never married.

Ron
 
My wife says any guns, ammo or components that I haven't sold or given away will be placed in the front yard alongside a "Free To A Good Home" sign. :)
 
I've been toying with the idea of bequesting one handgun and one rifle and a monetary sum to each of my clueless nieces and nephews with the stipulation they receive the money only if and when they've taken lawful ownership transfer of and learned how to shoot the firearms they've been bequested. Ha!! Money hath strings!! :D

Only of you have an executor (paid or not) that will enforce the condition.
 
"What would your family do with your collection after you die?"
Hopefully get it in the hands of someone that would appreciate it and use it for the good of the sport.

Why hopefully? Delete that word from the rest of that sentence.
 
My "plan" is to die with a singular handgun.
I will disperse all to the family members that wants them/can own them. I know my grandson is into guns and my youngest brother (34yr age difference) but my daughter and other grandkids are not.

If I die today then there is a thumb drive with everything needed for my survivors to cash everything out and a Excel file that is up to date with the guns/serial#'s/$ paid. So surviving members have an idea.
This is all good except I’d definitely print the Excel file and place it in your safe. Computer files may be lock of mistakenly deleted
 
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I introduced my 12 year old daughter to shooting air rifles and .22lr. I've already had her help my cast bullets and reload. Later I'll introduce her handgun and shotgun. I even had her read a Primer on the 2nd Amendment and pointed out fallacies promoted by the Gun Control Lobby. She loves Dad too. So, when I die, I sure she'll keep most of my guns and give the rest away to my nephews. I'll even tell her to introduce her children to shoot the same way I did. Hopefully she'll have a husband that will like shooting too. And, as a result, I'll have a pretty happy son-in-law.
 
my children will get the whole lot , and if i know them they will go to the range and have a shooting party like no other.
 
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