What do you do with firearms which are no longer functional?

[cleardiddion]

So I have an old Iver Johnson Target Sealed 8 which has become unsafe to shoot.

I've been gabbing on with my girl about what to do with it and she suggest the idea of a shadow box for it.

Sort of like:



(Yeah, zombies, love em or hate em)

I was just curious as to what others did with their non functional firearms.

 

[Shadow 7D]

if you want to dewat it
cut the frame/barrel at the forcing cone, then weld the barrel to the fram so it can't be removed, then plug the cylinders so it can't chamber a round and make it so the cylindar can't be removed.

much the same way you can make it a blank firing gun.

you can also part it out...

 

[Giterboosted]

Fix it?

 

[RaceM]

After some of the guns I've resurrected there's almost no such thing as too broke to fix. However, parting out or dewatting are good options. Otherwise, a big sledge hammer followed by burial.

 

[taraquian]

A friend gave me an old Jennings Nine. Itwould cost $300 in parts to fix so I have been using it to teach newbies how to strip and clean pistols with it,no worries about losing any pieces or ND iit can't even chamber a round.

 

[berettaprofessor]

Actually, that's an interesting question. If we dewat a gun, is there someplace to report the serial number so that when we could sell it, say, interstate over Gunbroker and not have to go through an FFL. Another way to ask the question is can dewated guns be sold anywhere without restrictions, and how do we prove it?

 

[mgkdrgn]

Ummmm, I hope you have the tax stamp for that sawed off. Functional or not, it's still an NFA weapon, and possession without the tax stamp is a felony.

-Might- want to consider taking that photo down ...

 

[jmr40]

If no family history I take them to gun buyback programs.

 

[BADUNAME30]

Fix it?

What he said.

 

[Slamfire]

You can contact Numrich or Jack First parts and sell them the thing for parts.

I promise you someone out there needs a part to make his Sealed 8 functional.

This is the mechanical equivalent of an organ donor program.

 

[Deinhardt]

It's not his gun, just a picture of some dudes gun that he did that with. I would fix it up man. Unless it's gonna cost 1000+ I would probably fix any older gun.

 

[Fotno]

Yeah, that's an airsoft shotgun in the OP's picture...

 

[Hunterdad]

Ummmm, I hope you have the tax stamp for that sawed off. Functional or not, it's still an NFA weapon, and possession without the tax stamp is a felony.

-Might- want to consider taking that photo down

Ummmmmmm, I hope you read the original post correctly. He posted that picture as an example.

People on here a so quick to play "police". Pretty annoying.

 

[bannockburn]

If parts to fix it are not obtainable, then I would probably keep it around as a training tool to teach new shooters with.

 

[vamo]

People on here a so quick to play "police". Pretty annoying.

Ok the guy obviously misread the OP, but if I am unintentionally comitting a felony, that could land me in prison and severely restrict my rights in the future I am fine with someone pointing it out.

 

[bruzer]

A shadow box would be cool. Found an old rifle that was rusted up enough I could not get anything to move. Got it sand blasted and sitting on an old tire waiting for me to hang it on the wall by the antlers.
Good luck and stay safe,
Mike

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Shadow box and and enjoying looking at it.

 

[dsb1829]

Wait for the next gun buyback program to come up?

 

[mljdeckard]

I fix them and make them function again.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

What I would recommend, if there is a family history attached to the gun, is to shadow box the gun, and in an envelope on the back include that family history. I sometimes wonder, looking at the used guns on the dealer's rack, what "me and Uncle Ed and his dog Henry" tales are behind that gun, lost forever. If the gun is non functional, leave a description of the problem and if any steps were made to deactivate the gun, describe those too.

What do I do with firearms which are no longer functional?

I have disassembled two guns that were not economicly fixable for parts.

I have two other guns, late 19th century revolvers, that I attached to a framed copy of the first page of the 1897 Sears & Roebuck Co. Department of Revolvers Catalog. Both guns, a S&W top break and a F&W solid frame are on the page.

 

[Bubbles]

We practice new refinishing techniques, especially playing with bluing.

 

[PT92]

I second the shadow box displaying of the deceased. It's not something your "typical" interior LA or NY designer would likely recommend to spruce the place up ...

-Cheers

 

[Tinpig]

When you sell parts to Numrich they have you mail them to NY, then they send you a check for what they think they're worth. You can either accept the offer by cashing the check, or opt not to cash the check and they'll return the parts.

I packaged up and mailed them a bunch of mixed Remington Model 10 parts, many in excellent shape, including a beautiful stock and fore-end. Months passed and they sent me a check for about $17 as I recall. I had no use for the parts and by this point I didn't want them back, so I cashed the check.

Lesson learned: I had zero bargaining power or leverage in this arrangement.
I could/should have taken the trouble to sell them on ebay or gunbroker, but I was too lazy.

Tinpig

 

[22-rimfire]

For me, if it is truly a piece of junk and unsafe, I'd cut it up and throw it in the trash. I wouldn't want to risk someone down the road getting hurt. But if it represents some special historical or family value, make it unshootable and shadow box it.

What do I really do with a non-functional gun? Unfortunately, I usually stand them in a corner and forget about them for years thinking at some point I will repair them.

 

[littleguns223]

I make wall hangers out of them.