I love the folks listing off already +1000%-appreciated guns as "
tomorrow's rare and collectible."
They must be trying to offload their holdings
SPAS12, P210, P7, Mateba, Pythons and the other assorted snakes --those prices all reached escape velocity years back.
My money's (literally) on the few remaining WWI guns (Steyr M95 and 1912 pistol, specifically) that aren't already sought after going up very very soon. Same for WWII guns. I think French surplus is finally about to hit a renaissance in this nation; it'll be hard to justify dropping 2000$ on a Garand or FAL repro when a MAS49/56 is less than half that. My MAS 1873 has already doubled or so in value since I bought it months ago (150$). SKSs will price up to current SVT40 levels in the next decade, at least those unmodified for import regs. AKs and other semi-auto converted guns, ultimately being "consumer" products, will go up in price as supply declines, but their total "net worth" will cease climbing since currently-produced consumer clones will suck away much of the old guns' desirability (why Garands don't cost 5X more than an M1A today)
It won't happen in our lifetime or our kid's lifetime, but a few hundred years from now someone will pull some pristine early-generation Glocks out of an environmentally-controlled storage container and sell them to collectors for an unbelievable price that will make Wyatt Earp's Colt SAA seem cheap by comparison.
Or... "Dang it, how many of these stupid things did those fools make? And why were they all buried in this idiot's yard? This is the fifth container
today!"
I'm more worried about a loaf of bread costing me/my descendants $10,000,000 that far in the future. That, and the Brotherhood of Machines. I plan to live forever, of course
TCB