When you die, where are your guns going?

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Remember to put the safe combinations somewhere, so your next of kin don't need to cut apart your safes.

Likewise, if you have a Paypal account or other online assets, remember to write down your username and password information for your estate.
 
Statistically I'll probably go before my wife. She likes guns and knows how to use certain ones. Our sons would like to have several but she not in favor of me giving any to them though they are grown (understandable motherly concern). Sooner or later the kids will end up with them.
 
Every now and then I think about this, I have no kids and theirs no one in either of our familys that have any interest in guns.
I alredy have a nice collection but by the time I pass I should also have my fathers collection and my stepfathers collection which is alot!!
Sometimes I think they will be sold for next to nothing or just given away to get rid of them :(
Who knows Im only 31 theirs still plenty of time.
 
Since I have no one to leave them to I would like my wife to sell them for the money. Just haven't come up with away to make sure she doesn't get ripped off.
 
Create a trust with instructions for each gun. It's easy to do and most lawyers can draft it, or you can even do it with inexpensive legal software.

You can be buried with a favorite gun. Pass 'em on to someone that will appreciate them; friends, a museum, the NRA or other pro-gun organization. Donate them to a shooting club or highschool for the purpose of creating a marksmanship gym class.

And a trust protects you from creditors and maybe even the government b/c they are not privately owned - they are the trust assets. Varies by state.
 
My family are all shooters/hunters so they'll go to them. My dad is already giving away his collection so he can see us enjoy them. Seems to me that he's just making more room in the safe:)
 
If I go in untimely fashion, my wife (who inherits) will likely give some to our kids, and dispose of the rest in a productive fashion; she has her own membership in the NRA. But if God lets me live to a ripe old age, I plan to give as many away as I can to family and friends, and the rest will be donated to a local gun club either for training/demonstration purposes, or to be auctioned off to the membership to raise funds for club operations.
 
My Mini-14 is going to my uncle in New York because that's the only gun I have that's legal there. The rest of my guns are going to my cousin here in-state. He's a fudd and thinks black rifles are an abomination, but after he shoots my FAL a few times and sees how fun it is, I'm sure he'll get his mind right. :D
 
I don't have any kids yet, but I imagine they'll get first dibs.

In reality, they'll go to whoever would appreciate them the most, and remember me and what the guns meant to me every time they handle them.
 
I have three sons, two are gun owners and the third will be soon. One serves in the military, his brothers seriously thinking of serving their country. I am sure they will take ghreat care of my guns when I cannot. Psalm 23
 
They're all gonna be buried with me, packed in cosmoline. And the story passed down through the generations of my family until one decides to take things to the next level and restore our liberty:)

Seriously though, I haven't really thought about it. I'm only 37, and my wife loves them as much as I do. So it won't be that big of a deal for her to just do with them as she pleases. She'll in all likelihood give some to each of our children and keep the rest for herself.
 
I'd also like to say that I'll be happily be the recipient of any firearms that you may wish to pass down, and I will happily sing your praises every time I take one out.

"This gun used to belong to a guy I met on the internet. He willed it to me, because his kids were ungrateful heathens. Remeber this lesson kids: Brats get written out of wills."
 
We dont know yet.

We may have the United States Marines recieve the guns via Will, the estate will make the transfer. We arent sure yet because there are no survivors in the existing family willing, able or gun friendly.

Maybe the USMC will make good use of what little they recieve. If such a thing is even possible.
 
I am fortunate to have one nephew who would hang on to them. He may eventually sell or traded a couple, but heck, so would I. My plan is for my sons to get a couple, another nephew to get a couple, and the rest will go to the nephew who likes guns. That was finalized the day my wife talked about selling them off if I died. :)
 
Well, I can’t speak for all of them, but the “evil”, black ones will probably end up in some level of Hades, right behind the politicians.

Okay...seriously. They all go to my daughter.

Doc2005
 
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now i'm only twenty years old and only own three guns, a ruger 10/22, an ar 15, and a winchester 16ga. I've been working out how i'm going to make up a will because i'm getting to a point i actually own some valuables (lol).
I have a 21 year old brother who although likes guns would probably end up selling them off, a 21 year old sister who hates guns, a 6 year old brother who....well he isn't old enough to get them, and the list continues...

i think in the end i'll give my ar 15 to my dad, who has no idea i even own it, and he doesn't care for guns but i want to see the look of shock (disgust) on his face when he sees i had something so black and scary.
the 16ga i originally pulled out of a closet at my dad's house but i think i'd give it to my uncle who is a total gun nut, he's the reason i joined the NRA.
and the 10/22 i'd have to try to get to my 6 year old brother, he'll like it weather he wants it or not!
EDIT: oh i forgot, the 1200 rounds of 5.56mm i have goes to the members of THR, one for each of you.

-Kirk
 
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Before I die

I will take them all down to Five Points in Denver and pass them out.

When I kick the bucket, Im officially giving up on the human race.
 
My son got is the one who got me interested in guns, so no question, he'll get and appreciate my tiny collection of handguns. I have a sentimental attachment to three of them. But since they were in the family -- two were his grandfather's and one was his father's -- I know he'll want to hang on to those forever. The others are just guns. I don't care what he does with them.
 
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