"Never sell a gun"

[Mags]

Maybe you should have just taken your guns with you when you moved out. I mean you make it sound like they meant alot to you. Of course hindsight is always 20/20.

 

[ar10]

I had 3 Glocks but I didn't sell them I used them as trade-ins for my XD's. The only XD I did sell was a 9mm service and don't regret it. The of the XD's I have I like and shoot pretty often.

 

[Expertowgunner]

they did mean a lot to me i was in the process of moving out and didnt have the time or a place to put my guns. this wasnt like goodbye dad and moving to a apartment i had set up before hand. this was more along the lines of get the hell out now and stay at my girlfriends house for a few days to straighten out. he literally took them all the NEXT day and sold them at gunshops all over the area. i mean that vepr alone had a eotech 512 on a ultimak rail, 4 75 round drums, 10 30 round mags, had 2000 rounds left of ammo which "mysteriously" just disappeared and wouldnt admit to selling it. the vepr goes for over a 1200 in pristine condition with original papers and box and this was the vepr k in 7.62x39mm took forever to find one even back then when they just started to import them. point is i would have never thought my own father would have backstabbed me that fast and he was apparently running up the bills while i lived with my parents and waited for the right time to take my stuff. of course he didnt sell his rock river or any of his **** only my stuff.

 

[Dutchman01]

I just had this conversation with a friend of mine who owns a gun shop. I miss pretty much all of them. I wish I had them back. Having said that I'm not a rich man. If I want to own, carry, shoot, use a particular firearm I have to "rotate my stock" from time to time. Right now I'm in the process of selling every gun I own save one, a browning hi-power, so I can finance my latest purchase, this sauer and sohn drilling.

 

[huntsman]

I just had this conversation with a friend of mine who owns a gun shop. I miss pretty much all of them. I wish I had them back. Having said that I'm not a rich man. If I want to own, carry, shoot, use a particular firearm I have to "rotate my stock" from time to time. Right now I'm in the process of selling every gun I own save one, a browning hi-power, so I can finance my latest purchase, this sauer and sohn drilling.

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now that looks cool 12 gauge & .30-06 if I'm seeing it correctly.

 

[RGO]

I sold a gun yesterday, actually. It was in great condition and worked just fine. I made a little money off it, but not much. My reason for selling it was that I just wasn't interested in it any more. I figured I'd sell it at a fair price and give someone else the chance to enjoy it, rather than letting it just sit around in my house.

 

[waterhouse]

It seems a common theme here is "only sell guns if you really need money."

I think this is where a lot of the regret comes from. If I had to sell a gun I liked because I needed funds, I'd probably regret not having that gun. If, on the other hand, I make a careful and rationally thought out decision that I no longer want/need a gun, I don't regret selling it. As I generally sell them for more than I bought them for I don't regret buying them either

 

[effengee]

regrets... and never saying never...

I feel all your pain...
I had a pre-ban Bulgarian AK-47 that went for a less-than-good amount of money to keep my family fed during hard times...
When I sold the AK I kept the Chinese 75 round drum and vowed to someday own another Kalashniclone and when times were good and I was working 55-60 hours a week, my taxes came back and my wife told me (I didn't ask, she TOLD me hehehe God, I love that woman!) to go buy another AK... Of course, the guy didn't have one and on impulse I bought a Kel-Tec sub2000 and made a briefcase carrier for it... but it certainly was not an AK. Within a few months I traded it for a Romanian...


I have bought and sold lots of guns, sometimes I win, sometimes they win...
I'd sell everything and anything I own to keep my kids taken care of and not shed a single tear
My consolation is that I am able to deal with guns and the thrill of the next firearm I will see for sale.

Saw a .50 desert eagle at the local gunshop yesterday and for a split second I did a mental calculation in my head of how I could afford a $1399 gun before realizing that I really don't need it (yes I do!! and taxes aren't till next year, by which time it will surely have sold...

I don't collect, I just have a couple of really cool guns at any given time and a pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun at all times...
After that, it has to be such an insanely sick deal that I can't afford to pass it up...
Like my .44 S&W 4-inch for $200 and the guy who sold it to me still cries when he sees me carry it...

 

[Reid73]

It seems a common theme here is "only sell guns if you really need money."

Unless someone owns one or more super-expensive firearms, I can't see that selling any would bring in enough money to make the sale worthwhile: a few thousand dollars isn't enough to make or break anyone. To my way of thinking, the only reason for selling a firearm is if you're not using it anymore. As RGO says, might as well let someone else enjoy it.

Dutchman01, nice drilling.

 

[GRIZ22]

Warriors will have an intangible bond with their weapons and are loathe to trade them away.


This sounds profound as "use you pistol to fight your way to a long gun".

Most genuine warriors I have met (SF, SEALS, SAS, etc) see weapons as tools of their job which wear out, get damaged, and have to be turned in when they change duty station.

 

[rmmoore]

I've bought and sold many through the years, and frankly, regretted selling "most" of them. But, as a few of you have mentioned, selling is usually a necessity, although I have traded "up" a few times. When my wife lost her job last year, some of those "gun-show" specials helped keep us out of our savings. I don't regret those, too much Invariably though, when I have sold just because I didn't think I "needed it anymore" , I've regretted it.

 

[rmmoore]

P.S. - Those that I did sell to help smooth things along, I wasn't really attached to anyway. Besides that, the wife sees things a bit differently nowadays. All that nagging about "what did you buy now" has suddenly disappeared when the "tangible asset" quality was realized. Maybe that few hundred dollars here and there might not have been a big deal to some folks, but it sure as hell was to us at the time. Especially for something I wasn't particularly in love with anyway (the guns that is )

 

[chris in va]

I've bought/sold a few guns and don't regret any of the sales. At all. Either they didn't fit my hands right, or I couldn't shoot it worth a crap, or it was just plain horrible.

 

[Dookie]

I had nearly 30 guns at one time, far less than many of you. Got bored one day and went through them all. Sold all but 5. I kept my Rem 600 .243, Savage MK2, my 10/22, Marlin 917hm2, and two shotguns. I have since sold the two shotties and picked up a Savage in 300 and plan on buying a cheap shotgun for hunting as I don't care about them.

Do I miss them, no. They are objects that wasted space and I did not use. Much better off and the money was used to fund other projects, like a jet ski. To me, guns are a hobby, not a way of life.

There is only one I will never sell, it is my fathers Savage 23A that my grandfather purchased new.

I worked with one guy who collects Garands and Mausers, he has over 1,000 misc rifles, he only shoots 3. So what is the point, they are stuck in a safe in the garage gathering dust.

 

[Shung]

it's called "collecting" and a lot of people are infected by this you know.. and not only about guns..

 

[Carl Levitian]

"Do I miss them, no. They are objects that wasted space and I did not use. Much better off and the money was used to fund other projects, like a jet ski. To me, guns are a hobby, not a way of life."
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Bravo, a man with both feet in the real world.

There's also a big difference between a hobby and obsession.

 

[mcdonl]

Metal and wood. Sometimes I trade metal and wood for metal and rubber, or wood with strings... all toy equity.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

Some of my favorites were bought used at a decent price. Thank goodness somebody was willing to sell or I would have been stuck paying full price for a new gun,plus all that paperwork.

 

[theotherwaldo]

1 - I don't like to buy or sell any valued personal possessions to/from friends or close neighbors. It tends to cause friction and hard feelings later on when the item in question gets broken, abused, or re-sold.

2 - I don't like to sell weapons to people that I don't know well - unless it's part of their occupation. Even then it doesn't feel right.

3 - I don't feel the need to dispose of everything that I'm not currently using. The opportunity to use and enjoy is usually just ahead.

4 - Why dispose of something that takes up little space and retains its value? Hey, Grandpa had to bury his gold (Thanks, FDR!) and died before he could recover the stuff. Every item of value has its risks.

In summation, I don't see why I shouldn't buy any gun that intrigues me. I also can't see why I should need to sell a gun, unless there's dire need.

 

[rogertc1]

"Never sell a gun"
Some 37 years later I have managed to hord about 200. Not an investment for me but an obsession. I keep wanting to quit but can't as i always find one more.

 

[Reid73]

I don't feel the need to dispose of everything that I'm not currently using. The opportunity to use and enjoy is usually just ahead.

That can be true; but if you haven't used a particular item in several years, it is probably a fairly safe bet that it no longer suits your current circumstances or interests.

Why dispose of something that takes up little space and retains its value?

Agreed, if one owns, say, a small pistol. But multiple long guns do take up a fair bit of room.

I suppose they could be hung on the walls, but that is not legal storage in some jursidictions; and even where the law permits, wives often do not!

 

[theotherwaldo]

Heh. He don't know me very well, do he?

My welding gear has had to wait most of a decade while I scouted up a place to set up shop. Likewise the potter's wheel and related gear. The stone carving stump was established just this summer, after a two decade hiatus. I could go on.

My favorite song as a child was Gershwin's "Biding My Time".

I took it to heart.

 

[shotgunjoel]

The only gun that I currently own that I would ever sell would be my target .22 rifle. It's a great gun, it's just that I use the others more and don't think I'd miss it or not be able to replace it.

 

[indie]

I wish I didnt have to sell/wish I still had some guns, but I dont regret the guns I purchased with the money.

I dont have a whole lot of disposible income, but im trying to make do and sometimes I have to sacrifice.

 

[wrs840]

Sold a few, lost some to theft, lost one in the bush. I really miss one of them.

lLes