What will you do with your guns when you die?

[Sean85746]

My daughter will get them if she is...and I PRAY she is...a gunny.

If the wife bucks the statistics and croaks at the same time I do...my best friend has keys to my house and will get them to hold for my daughter (keeping a few select for himself that I know he wants and have already earmarked for him).

If he is dead, my nephew is a marine, and I am damned proud of him. I have already given him a Kimber to take with him overseas, and I have a few others for him too.

They will be well shepherded.

But...the wife also knows that if my pension and insurance aren't enough...sell most of them, and go to Hawaii.

 

[El Rojo]

Strangely enough I was just thinking of this the other day. I started to realize that even though I am a mere 27, I should make a list now since I have no kids. I would probably give some of them to some of the younger, more responsible kids I know. Heck, none of my friends need them all. I can start giving them to younger people who would enjoy them and probably keep them for a while.

If I get pretty old and have kids, grandkids, nieces, and nephews then I can start giving them to them while I am still alive. I like that idea of getting some enjoyment of giving some enjoyment to someone else.

Now any of you without any relatives you can think of to give your guns to, I would be more than happy to be the new caretaker of your treasures. I promise to treat them as my own and make sure they go to a good home when I am done with them. Send me an e-mail and I will give you my contact info!

In all seriousness, you can't take them with you to eternity. They are just mere possessions and really don't matter in the real thick of things. And guns mean quite a bit to me, but not as much as storing my treasures up in Heaven.

 

[SteelyDan]

Just to inject a small dose of reality, there's a world of difference between what you "want" to happen to your guns and what "will" happen to them, unless you specify it in your wills. Otherwise, in most cases, your surviving spouse will make the decision, and she (or he) may decide to sell them to pay your burial costs, or anything else.

 

[Sindawe]

I've already performed a "blood of the innocent" soaked Dark Ritual that invests my blighted spirit into my guns. I will haunt them and whomever owns 'em, slowly driving them to insane and into the depth of depravity.

The will bequeaths 'em to my niece and nephew if they are of age to posess 'em, else they are sold at market value and the funds from the sale go to their education.

 

[Jay Kominek]

Being 24, I havn't yet bothered with a will. But my various life insurance policies and similar things pay out to my brother. I'd hope my firearms would end up with him if he wanted them, and with my dad, otherwise. (He wants some real guns, but my mom has drawn the line at his .22. Poor guy. (She saw a few too many negligent discharges growing up, and is worried about that, rather than having a dim legal view of them or anything.))

 

[joab]

Just to inject a small dose of reality, there's a world of difference between what you "want" to happen to your guns and what "will" happen to them, unless you specify it in your wills. Otherwise, in most cases, your surviving spouse will make the decision, and she (or he) may decide to sell them to pay your burial costs, or anything else

Another good reason to pass things out before hand if you can.

My wife has already told me that she i going to throw me out with the Monday morning trash so there won't be any burial expenses if she can help it

 

[jojo]

"My wife has already told me that she i going to throw me out with the Monday morning trash so there won't be any burial expenses if she can help it."

I hope she at least uses a new clean bag for my body!

I'm leaving all mine to my son and daughter, divide them how they wish. I do hope to be blessed enough to be able to give them away and see their faces. Plus I hold out hope for some a good son-in-law / daughter-in-law and eventually grandkids. Especially the grandkids.

jojo

 

[Tamara]

They will be stacked around me in the longship, with my Springfield Professional in my hand, before it is set ablaze and shoved out to sea.

 

[Swamprabbit]

I'm 41 but have already begun looking for the ones my three kids are taking a liking to and making sure they know which one gets the gun. I don't think they will want all of the ones I have so I have no problems with them selling off the ones they don't want.

That is the good things about owning firearms, if you buy used ones at their value (or less), they will at least hold their value or may increase a little.

 

[Brian Williams]

Nothing, I will be in Heaven
My kids will fight over them,
Pete wants the 60-4 and the 1911
Leigh will probably keep the glock 19 and the revolvers ??????

 

[molonlabe]

This is an important thread that has been on my mind lately. A dear friend died of mine died of sudden Cardiac arrest. He was living with a live in girlfriend in a common law State. There are indications he was reconciling with his ex-wife and intending to move back with her. His guns which he had plenty of are now in the girlfriends possession and she intends to sell them off along with all his other possessions. I know he would have wanted his son (from his EX.) to have them. The point is I am sure he expected to live for 20 years more (he was young) and never gave a thought about a will.

 

[noonanda]

I hope to be eventually blessed by a couple of decent son-in-laws

I have 3 little girls, if the son in laws aint decent to them, there are always some empty holes in the ground that need to be filled

My middle daughter who turns 4 this month already loves to help daddy with anything having to do with guns. She has stated that she wants an "Emfield" She is gonna be a hellion too, she was firing a .22 as fast as she could with my help( I was holding it and her, she was pulling the trigger) and then she did the same thing with my Garand LOL

Oldest who is 5 likes to help some too, but not as much as middle daughter
Youngest is only 8 months so I still have time to convert her as well

 

[Powderman]

Everything goes to my wife if I should go before her, as in fall in the line of duty.


We have already decided that our son has first crack at everything gun related in our house. If for some reason he does not want them, and I can arrange it, I will find or have found a young person who loves shooting as much as I do. Then, it all goes to them, lock stock and barrel.....except for one gun.

This will be my M29 .44 Magnum. My wife bought it for me, it was my first gun she bought after we were married. That one goes with me.

 

[Bruce H]

My funeral arangements are already paid for. Cremation, no services. No sense bothering others when you can't enjoy it. My safes are wired with special locks triggered by a heart monitor. Upon death mine have been instructed to search out leading anti's and go to work. They all say it is possible for a firearm.

Serioously wife and kids do as they see fit as per the will.

 

[Horsesense]

I think of most of my guns as part of the house, you know, pots, pans, table etc., they serve a purpose and I would want them to stay with the wife. Any extra guns will go to the kids or sold….after all I do tell her that buying guns is just another form of investing “they appreciate honey, I’m doing this for the futureâ€

 

[Sam Adams]

As an Estate Planning attorney, I can tell all of you who don't have wills to get one prepared. One never knows the future, and I've worked on the estate of a 40-year-old guy in excellent health who bought it in a motorcycle accident. Do as the Boy Scouts suggest: Be Prepared.

Oh, BTW, I don't like to list (or even mention) guns in the body of a will. Why? Because if your will is probated it becomes part of the public record. I don't want some future adminstration directing the ATF to search through public records to find my guns or those of my clients. Better to reference a list of beneficiaries for your (unnamed in the will) personal property, and trust your Executor to follow your instructions.

As for me, I've left everything to the wife, and to the kids if she's gone. The kids are very young (3 1/2 and 7 months), so they're not shooters - YET. I'm 43 and do expect to be around for a while (good genes, no ultra-high-risk activities, in good health), and I hope that the kids will want the guns. As for now, I have indicated in my will that I have a list of personal items, and that my Executor is to follow those instructions. I have made sure that my guns will find a good home with a pro-gun friend until such time as my kids are old enough to responsibly (and legally) possess the guns. I thoroughly trust him to care for them well and to return them to my kids at the appropriate time (and he can use anything that he wants in return for the favor).

I'll be burried with my Glock... if that's legal.

This is not so crazy an idea. Imagine a situation where guns have been banned by President Hillary or someone like her. Many threads have discussed the idea of burying guns for that reason - and what better place to bury one than in a hole that someone else has to dig? Your loved ones will know the location quite well, and no one will be suspicious if people go there to visit. Of course, going to a graveyard with a shovel is not exactly common , but this will force anyone doing so to exercise their wetware, which will be an important thing to do for anyone owing a gun in such an environment. Oh, and the idea of a family secret appeals to me. All that they have to do is slip something into the coffin at the last moment, and it is done. Don't forget to have them include the owners manual and some ammo, and to preserve the metal parts REALLY well in Cosmoline or something like it.

 

[landon74]

My kids will get them upon the stipulation that they're married and cranking out little patriots who need to be taught how to use my instruments of freedom....

 

[wmenorr67]

All seem to be great ideas.

Mine are to be split between my children. If they are not interested in them then they will be donated to a club or auctioned off and the proceeds given to a pro- 2nd Amendment non-profit that needs the money.

 

[poesraven]

More than likely my mother will get them- She'll be a PISTOL PACKING-AR TOTING-SHOTGUN SLINGING, MOTHER , Best Armed Senior Citizen in her neighborhood. Then she can decide how to divy em up between my sibs.

Sam Adams "good beer", also are there wills that you can prepare yourseld off the NEt?,

 

[ojibweindian]

Mine will be given to my two children.

Steven gets the .30-06 and the .357, Katie gets the .30-30 and the .22s.

 

[The Rabbi]

I am having one revolver buried with me with extra ammo and a speedloader. At Resurrection I am sure there will be some scurvy SOBs who will need to be taken out.
For the rest of them, I only hope my wife doesnt sell them for what I told her they cost!

 

[CAS700850]

My plan is to leave them to my sons. Hopefully, this will not need to happen for a long time, as they are 4 and 2, and still a little young for handgun ownership. My wife has no interest in having them for herself.

I've had this thought lately, but in a revers way. My grandfather, who lives in Florida with his wife (my grandmother died in 1983),and he has several very nice firearms, including a Browning Auto-5, a Colt 1911 circa 1950 in .38 Super caliber, and a matched pair (consecutive serial numbers) of High Standard .22 Magnum double-action deringers, among several others. My hope is that my step-grandmother doesn't decide to help things along by either giving them to the police (she's borderline anti) or disposing of these guns to her family, and forgetting his four grandsons.

 

[Lonestar.45]

I've left strict instructions that I, and my guns, are to be dipped in cosmoline, and the guns packed into the coffin next to me.

 

[CZ-100]

They will go to my boys, now 13 and 10 years old.

 

[FunGunner]

No kids, so my wife get to have any she wants then starting with my oldest brother picks one and then right on down the line to the next brother, sister, brother, and brother. If there is any left, they will be on a first reply winfall post here, so they won't go to waste.