What will you do with your guns when you die?

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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.
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I'm sorry, but without prior approval of a properly prepared and researched Environmental Impact Report, that won't be allowed. :D
 
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.
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I'll put it back in the tupperware and fill it with CLP, leave a fresh rag to wipe it down with, a case of ammo (under the 'pillow' of course) -- but no owner's manual. If you can't take apart a Glock, you shouldn't be holding any firearm. Ha!

And they'll know my grave's location -- they'll frequent it often to egg and TP it...haha...

And if the status quo ever comes to the point of having to dig up firearms and ammunition from a gravesite... I'm sure someone digging in a graveyard will be the least of anyone's concerns.

-Colin

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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.

I'm sorry, but without prior approval of a properly prepared and researched Environmental Impact Report, that won't be allowed.
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Sure it will, I'll be there... in a dingy with a fire extinguisher. :D
-Colin
 
If I go before my dad, he gets my gun, if I go after my GF/Wife/Kids...
 
A few are going to certain friends and their kids.
In addition to my Will I'm making video tapes telling my friends what I want done.

I told my four best friends I want them to get together for a cookout and divide up the rest of the guns.
There are many duplicates, like 13 Makarovs, so I think there will be enough to go around.

Since I'm alone, every time I buy a gun or anything that's going to last a year or two I have the feeling I'm just buying it for someone else anyhow. :)
 
No kids, both my nephews are felons. I told my wife if she survives me to donate the one she doesn't want to the NRA or another gun rights organization. I might take the 1936 k98 to the Holocaust Museum.
 
I really have to get this sorted out.

I want my blood son to have the pick of the crop - up to at least ten. Beyond that if my wife survives me then she will be keeping whatever she wants. Then surplus goes to sale at best prices for the market at the time.

I wish to heck my step son would earn the trust and respect I need to see - before leaving any to him! :(
 
Simple.

Rifles are going to the NRA; handguns to the state affiliate. Minus those my wife doesn't want - don't think she'll be making any major reductions in the donations....... ;)

They will NOT be taken to the PD or sold in some fraudulent "buy back" program! :fire:
 
Uh, I hope my son likes guns when he grows up :uhoh:
He's 2 right now and knows how to work the bolt on a bolt action, so maybe that's a good start. I hope to have another son so they can fight over them when I die. :evil:
 
The guns remaining in my collection are all fine high-end firearms. I use them for CCW, home defense and target shooting. I rarely sell one and keep them not as a financial investment but simply because I truly enjoy owning and shooting fine guns.

When I am no longer physically able to shoot and care for them, I will give them to shooting friends I have met throughout the years. I am confident they will enjoy and value them as I have.
 
I plan on leaving them to my son. If for some reason that is not to be, I'll donate them to the closest and best pro-gun group for a fund-raising raffle.

I think I should take Sam Adams' sage advice and insure that my will reflects this, as he advised.
 
In the event of my untimely demise they will be left in the trust of a good gun owning friend until at which time my sons are able to take possesion of them. If I am still alive but am just unable to use them or enjoy them and my sons are old enough, then they can start deviding the lot amongst themselves.
 
This is indeed a great topic.

Now I do not know about the legal implications or veracity of the statement, but I have read here and elsewhere that putting firearms into a will has drawbacks, particularly with the state having a list of all the weapons etc and I think someone said wills were public documents (check with a lawyer on ALL of the above as I really do not know.)

In any event, ALL of your weapons should be inventoried for insurance purposes or reporting purposes should they get stolen in my opinion.

With that in mind I made up a nice little resource that you guys are free to download. Not only is it an inventory sheet that identifies in detail each weapon (I suggest adding a picture as well) but it also has a line saying who you want the firearm to go to if you die.

There are two versions. This one is in HTML format and this one is in Microsoft Word format

Enjoy,
Charles
 
My only son lives in Germany. He is a good shot but is not all that interested in "guns as guns".

I'm slowly selling off my non-"pet", less-used stuff. I look for relatively "poorish" folks with kids who want decent guns for their kids for hunting. I've found it heart-warming at a gunshow when I can make a good deal for some kid--and for his parents' billfold. :)

In a will, guns are in the "personal property" category. For those with several kids, the phrasing can be along the lines for distribution of personal property "as previously discussed and agreed". The agreement results can be written out as a separate document and signed by the kids and need not be public...

Art
 
They'll go to my wife and son and daughter and friends. Not every one of them will want every gun in my collection and I know that each of them have different tastes in firearms. If my wife survives me she decides who gets what. In we're both gone a friend is designated as backup co-executor.

Regardless of who carries out my last wishes my son get's the model 1 S&W, the officers .32 Colt, and the Win '97 Riot, my daughter gets "her" .22 AR and Tam gets my SA-marked Swedish Mauser and the Swede she gave to me on my birthday that made me look for yet another caliber rifle :neener: (thanks!), "The Boys" (they already know who they are) get to pick from the collection after that. My wife has her own guns and doesn't particularly care for mine. The rest might get sold off or further distributed out.
 
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