Memorable Excuses for Selling a Gun?

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My last swap would be the most memorable.

His listing more or less said "I bought a para gi expert and shot it a little bit and I don't like it. I'd like a sig p220.

My reply "I bought a sig p220 used and shot a mag through it and hate it. It's been on top kitchen cabinet for 3 years.

I think we are both happy now:)
 
Saw one on Armslist a month or so ago. Guy claimed he was hammered drunk and went on an auction site (believe Gunbroker but can't swear to it) and went on a shopping spree. He had a couple grand worth of guns and accessories that he bought and was needing to sell them because he put every one of them on his/wife's credit card and his wife was furious.
 
Some that I've given:
- "I don't like the [caliber] anymore." [Caliber] = 5.45x39(1), 7.62x25(1), .38Spcl (1), .410 & .45LC(2); Sold the ammo along the firearms.
- "I don't shoot it enough."
 
[Saw one on Armslist a month or so ago. Guy claimed he was hammered drunk and went on an auction site (believe Gunbroker but can't swear to it) and went on a shopping spree. He had a couple grand worth of guns and accessories that he bought and was needing to sell them because he put every one of them on his/wife's credit card and his wife was furious.
/QUOTE]That's gold man.
I have bought one or two after a glass or two. Nothing terrible but went in too fast for sure.
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For myself, I'd have to be honest, but that would probably simply mean I'd give as the reason, "Fine weapon, I just never shoot it." That's true for a lot of my stuff.



But I might just go with what a homeless guy I used to see down in DC put on his sign: "Ninjas killed my family. I need money for Kung Fu lessons!"
 
Saw one on Armslist a month or so ago. Guy claimed he was hammered drunk and went on an auction site (believe Gunbroker but can't swear to it) and went on a shopping spree. He had a couple grand worth of guns and accessories that he bought and was needing to sell them because he put every one of them on his/wife's credit card and his wife was furious.
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Cannot be Gunbroker cause you would be sober by the time the auction actually ended.. hours after the scheduled end time.!!!!


No excuses.. I buy them, if I dont like them they are gone. Dont know how people hold onto them "just because".
 
I've sold guns I just wasn't using.

I sold one gun, an original Trapdoor rifle that had been cut to carbine length, because it wasn't fun to shoot. I didn't reload for it, and it pounded me to the point where I couldn't shoot a full box at the range.

I don't think any reason is necessary to dispose of a gun. I find the attitude "I never sell a gun" to be a little silly. You don't really want it, you don't use it, but for some weird reason you won't sell it because "I never sell a gun". Good luck to you. I'd prefer to use the funds to buy something I actually want and will use.

Also, tastes change. I've later regretted selling a couple, but then I wouldn't have had some I really enjoyed more.
 
My wife and I had only been married three years and I was in a part time job at that time and she had a full time job. In that three year span she had managed to wreck her car twice. The second time I had to sell my Springfield GI 1911 to my Dad to pay her deductible. The next year I went full time and have been since with no issues. And my Dad won't turn the Springfield loose, he loves it.
 
"It was my ex-husband's, he sold the pre ban magazines because they were worth more than the gun, and I don't like guns. He left in the house safe, I got the house."

Jim
 
anothernewb said:
from a local sale ad. after meeting with the owner, it was a joke to get attention - and it certainly worked.

"Turned Vegetarian"
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That's pretty funny.

Somewhat OT but I do remember selling my EDC to pay for a new EDC I wanted and met up with an older guy in a public place and he said, 'we gotta do this quick, my wife is in the store shopping thinking I'm in the bathroom.' :D
 
Saw a guy walking around a gun show with an FAL with this sign taped to it: "Must sell, girlfriend is pregnant, wife is pi$$ed".
 
Bought a US Army commemerative Auto-Ordinance 1911. The woman said it belonged to ex-husbands father. It was a retirement gift when he retired from the army as a major. His name and years of service are engraved in the right side of slide. Price was $450 which is low, asked why. Her reply, "I know this will really hurt ******(her ex)". I bought it only because if I didn't someone else sure would have.
 
I never understood the "thinning the herd" comment until I found myself wanting to do the same thing. Sometimes you find yourself with a gun that you rarely shoot, or is the last gun in a certain caliber/type of ammo... why not convert that into a different gun (or something else) that you need, or will use/enjoy?
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+1

Sometimes when your collection or "arsenal" gets to a certain size, it is a good idea to downsize. this is a personal choice of course.

But when you have multiple firearms of the same type/caliber i.e. SKS, AK, AR, Glock, etc it doesn't hurt to sell one or two of them knowing you can easily buy another one down the road.
 
No, that is a real reason, and a sad one. Did someone here call it an excuse? I missed it. Who are you arguing with BSA?
 
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