Good and bad. Good in that I only bought outright two inexpensive handguns - a Keltec PF9 and a Taurus TCP. Traded an SKS and $90 for a S&W 10-5 with a 5" bbl and a Walther P22 and $230 for a Colt Trooper MK III .22lr. I didn't lose any money on the SKS and only lost $20 on the Walther.
Bad in that I didn't sell some of the stuff that I wanted to sell so that I could buy precious metals instead. Bad year to try and sell anything.
And, wow, $17,000 on purchases in a year. I've maybe spent that much in the last 3 1/2 years and I kind of regret that.