I'm giving my guns away.

[ChCx2744]

I shouldn't have to worry about this yet at my age...I SHOULD have about 50-60 more years ahead of me of gun ownership...But if anything were to happen to me, my guns would go to my brother and maybe one of them to my dad...I would make sure my brother teaches my dad the fundamentals though...

 

[federalfarmer]

Everything I have is always for sale! Gold and silver are the payment options.

My brother gets it all. Whatever he does with it is up to him.

 

[Ala Dan]

All firearms go too my daughter and/or grand-daughter upon my demise~!

 

[duck911]

Funny thing happened a month ago or so and I'll explain it like this. When my father died he left me his guns. My mother knows how much I cherish the firearms my dad left me, and the few special guns my wife allowed me to buy for my birthday throughout the years. Anyway to get to the point. My aging mother said "I want to leave you a special gun to remember me by." Well I now own a gun my mother bought for me and I could not be any more proud of that gun because ........ It came from my mother's heart.

Good for you and your Mom! I hope that gun rides in the front of the gun safe and you shoot it at the range frequently. Great story, thanks for posting this!

 

[clarence222]

My wife and I talked about this quite a bit recently, due to my son disowning us both. I have always tried to buy two of each one for him and one for my daughter. Since he quit talking to us I have still been buying two of each since she told me too. We have decided and have discussed this with parents and inlaws thatr unless my son get his act straightened out by the time I leave they are to go to my daughter. She can do what she wants with them. Either way if they get split between her and her brother, she is going to have a very happy husband one day.

 

[duck911]

Well, the answer's not as easy for me.

Some of the guns I have (or hope to) inherit come from my grandfather, who was in WWII and was a career California Highway Patrolman. I already have his M1 carbine. I will end up with his CHP commemorative S&W Model 38 revolver. Also, he had a Ruger model #1 in .357 that was a special CHP run that I HOPE to get.

My half-brother (Dad's son after 2nd marriage) will get my Dad's commemorative CHP revolver (my Dad was also a career CHP). At least there's two of those.... The 2 revolvers, the M1, and the Ruger should never, ever, see a pawn shop or internet website. I'll hand my grandfathers gun(s) back to my half brother before pass them to someone who'd hock them.

Thing is, only my half brother has the family last name with a chance to carry on the name. I am married to a wonder wife (and wouldn't change it for the world) but we won't have any kids of our own. I do have a wonderful stepson and stepdaughter that are her's from a previous marriage. They're as much my kids as I will ever have.

Still, I feel bad asking my father for family firearms when I know he knows if he passes them to my 1/2 brother, they stand a better chance of "staying within the family name."

So, in the end, I suppose all of my personal firearms will go to (in order):

1) my stepson and stepdaugter, if they're interested
2) my step-grandkids, if they're interested
3) my natural sister's 3 sons, if they're interested

My Dad and grandfathers firearms, the "family heirloom's", if you can call them that, would be split up between:

1) my half brother, if it looks like he's interested and will have kids
2) my sisters 3 boys, as these guns would be their grandfathers and great grandfathers guns
3) my stepson or stepdaughter, if they seem interested in keeping these guns

Also, I don't believe the mantra "I'll be dead so I don't care if they're sold..."

I'd like the important guns to stay in the family so that future generations can enjoy the stories and reflect on their family history. If a few greedy family members have to pay the price by not selling, tough *****.

I'd rather have a few great nephew's have my family's guns and be able to enjoy the stories, than have the guns sold off at an auction at my death. It's the least we (I) can do to pass on the family story.

--Duck911

 

[cchris]

I plan on doing what Clint Eastwood's character did in Gran Torino. Find the people who will appreciate them and leave my guns to them, and leave all the "spoiled" people with nothing.