Gun Ownership Rules?

[Sniper66]

I've always been able to imagine a "genuine need" for a gun I wanted. Consequently, I've bought, and later sold a lot of guns in my life. And I usually sell a gun because I imagine a "genuine need" for a different one.
Somebody help me PLEASE! I'm 70 years old, and I've been caught in this cycle for over 50 years!

Arggg...me too. I'll be 72 soon and got my first gun...a BB gun....62 years ago. Lots of guns have gone thru these wrinkled fingers. So what am I doing?.....going to a gun auction on Saturday to bid on a pre '64 Winchester 70 Super Grade 22 Hornet. How many of those have you seen? The fire still burns in me and I'm glad.

 

[MedWheeler]

George P writes:

...your safe should cost as much as your most expensive gun.......if that is a $500 Mossberg or a $35,000 Perazzi. you go accordingly.

I don't get this. I don't think the safe should necessarily cost more than the total worth of its contents, but from where does the rule come that its cost be based on the worth of only one gun?

Also, I doubt it would take a $35,000 safe to protect guns; the strength of the safe isn't affected by the value of its contents. I bet a $10,000 safe would do.

 

[Elkins45]

Mmmmm, I have what I call the "Walmart Ammo" rule. If a gun is chambered in a caliber you can't get at Walmart, I try to avoid it.

I have a corollary to that, which is that once you settle on what your carry gun is to be, you need to buy one in every caliber they offer it in. That way you stand maximum chance of getting factory defensive ammo for it if there's ever another banic. Once I decided on my carry guns I bought them in both 9mm and 40 cal.

I disagree about the gun safe rule. A quality gun safe is often a better investment than the guns that go inside it.

 

[Hunter86004]

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who has a rule to never sell a gun.

I don't recall ever having buyer's remorse, but seller's remorse has kept me awake a few nights.

 

[ACES&8S]

My favorite of all time refers to lots of things in life including firearms, it comes from my Grandmother.
BE WARE WHAT YOU WANT LEST YOU GET IT !

 

[Old Dog]

I don't recall ever having buyer's remorse, but seller's remorse has kept me awake a few nights.

Same here. My list of classic guns I sold or trade off in the past is shameful. No longer do I think that I need something else if I haven't taken a gun out of the safe for a while ...

So that's now a rule I have as well: do not ever sell a gun again.

 

[SamT1]

You have every right to collect; however, collectors are responsible for raising gun prices so that people who would like to shoot them, can't afford them. One example is the Colt Python. I had one that I bought new in 1972 for $125. They now cost over $1,000, primarily because the factory won't make enough of them to supply everyone who wants them, so collectors who are flush with money, get about all of them. It's not that I can't afford one, but I won't play the game.

Pick you up a Dan Wesson 15VH. I still regret a beat up one I passed on at a pawn shop. Would have made a good truck gun.

 

[Picher]

There are very few guns that I've sold that I'd wish I hadn't. One is my old Savage 110...my first Centerfire and the one fitted a Bishop stock
blank to, when in High School. Another is a Marlin 39A Mountie that I got disgusted with, due to an off-square receiver top, but it shot great!

 

[SamT1]

I used to have a ball buying selling and trading wood stock bolt guns before Obama ruined the non tactical market after sandy hook.

I’m not a “collector” anymore. But do have quite a few family heirlooms that mostly sit around.
I like black guns built for a specific purpose. I’ve just about parted ways with everything I don’t love to shoot.

 

[.308 Norma]

There are very few guns that I've sold that I'd wish I hadn't.

Me too. As a matter of fact, I can only think of one gun that I wish I had not sold. And that's only for sentimental reason; it was a High Standard Sentinel 22 (my first handgun) that I bought through my folks' store when I was 16 or 17 years old. It never was that great of a gun. I've had, and in fact have better 22 revolvers since, but it was my first, and I wish I had it back.
I have no regrets about selling any of the other guns I've sold over the years. I had my reason(s) for selling them, even if sometimes the reason(s) was only because I was tired of them and wanted to try something new or different.
One reason for selling guns I don't often see mentioned is very real, at least to me it is very real - I don't have room for any more guns. Besides, my wife is as into guns as I am, has just as many, therefore our lack of space for more guns and gun safes is compounded. And we're retired and don't really want to buy a bigger house and do the mortgage thing again, much less move.
So, our rule for gun buying and selling has become: If we see a gun we want, we figure out which of our guns we want to sell before buying it. It's not that bad - at my wife's and my ages, we have pretty much have settled down and don't pay a lot of mind to the "latest and greatest" guns on the market, and we're pretty well satisfied with what we have.
Now if I could only figure out which gun I want to sell so I can buy one of those new Colt Cobras.

 

[Picher]

Now if I could only figure out which gun I want to sell so I can buy one of those new Colt Cobras.

Come on now. A Colt Cobra doesn't take that much space. You could either store it in the breadbox or a coffee can.

 

[.308 Norma]

Come on now. A Colt Cobra doesn't take that much space. You could either store it in the breadbox or a coffee can.

Very good point! I just might have me a brand new Colt Cobra to wear to church on Sunday.

 

[Picher]

Very good point! I just might have me a brand new Colt Cobra to wear to church on Sunday.

If you do, don't be like the guy on yesterday's news who lost his pistol when trying furniture and a kid found and fired it. DUH! I also wouldn't take a stink bomb to church and leave it in a "pew".

 

[Robert]

It appears we have drifted away from the original purpose of the thread.