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.