EH1
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Well I've been lucky enough to have received lots and lots of guns for free. Mostly from elderly women whose husbands died and left them with guns they didn't want. That would be a long list of guns from junk to really nice,including N.I.B. I was also a LEO a long time ago and it wasn't that unusual for civilians to just turn in guns. The policy was whoever was on duty and wanted it got to keep it and I always wanted it. Often when it wasn't my turn for the free gun I could get it from the guy whose turn it was for almost free or maybe swap shifts or buy lunch. This was a long time ago, I don't imagine it happens these days. Another time my elderly neighbor wanted to sell his guns and asked me about local gun shops. I took him to a few and they gave him quotes. I told him his guns were worth a lot more. He decided he just wanted to get rid of them and told me I could have any I wanted for whatever the store quoted. I took them all. How about a 1955 model 94 which he used one time for deer hunting. Like new for $80.00. He refused to take more.
My advice to you young guys is be really nice and polite to old ladies with gun enthusiast husbands. Cut their grass, shovel their driveways. When I die someone is going to end up with a lot of nice guns and my adopted kids and nephews are just not that interested in guns.
My advice to you young guys is be really nice and polite to old ladies with gun enthusiast husbands. Cut their grass, shovel their driveways. When I die someone is going to end up with a lot of nice guns and my adopted kids and nephews are just not that interested in guns.