NRA magazine collection

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CZguy

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I have piles of old American Rifleman magazines dating back to the early seventies. I need to thoroughly clean my basement this year, do these have any value? How would you sell them, if they do?
 
Post on the different gun boards sale or trade forums. Offer them up in a good Karma raffle-have winner pay shipping. Sell them by year lots. Offer to trade them for other gun magazines.

Pass them onto your local libraries, donate them to local VA hospital, Veterans organization, or scout groups, soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan...

I can get them sent to our soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan, they would love to read them.

Randomly mail a couple to your non-gun owning friends, send a few to me, all sort of possibilities!

NVCZ
 
Waiting rooms ( auto/tire shops, dr's offices, etc. ). I hate sitting in a waiting room and finding a bunch of People or Us, but no gun mags.

Tuckerdog1
 
I sent about 3 banana boxes of old gun mags to the troops. To think some troop is reading on how this new 10mm will be taking the pistol world by storm :)
 
I've seen stacks of old "American Rifleman" mags for sale for about 25 cents apiece at a local gun shop and someone also had a pile for sale for the same price at my local club.

Typically the old American Rifleman's aren't as interesting as some of the other old gun magazines. I do usually skim the covers and tables of contents and I'll sometimes buy a couple old issues if there is a specific article I want. Usually it's something on arms of the Revolutionary War or Civil War or some interesting technical article on firearms manufacturing or something.

My suggestion is just skim through 'em quick and rip out any articles you want to save for reference. See if anyone at your local club wants any of the remaining mags and then put the rest in the recycle bin.

Now, if you had anything dating back to 40's during WWII, or the 60's during Vietnam, those are more interesting and collectors will pay a few bucks for those. I've bought a few from WWII and Vietnam era at gunshows in the past.
 
Libraries don't want them. It's just more work to do.

My librarian friend says otherwise.

Library budgets are constantly under strain and scrutiny. One of the things that they rarely get and often sorely need is donations of new books and periodicals. Especially periodicals, which typically get taken out of circulation much faster than books. I say donate them.
 
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