One of the places that I used to shop many years ago was a pawn shop near a not so great neighborhood. Their prices were all over the place, but sometimes I would find a bargain. I was talking to the owner one day and he told me about a massive store of guns they had and couldn't sell. I mentioned that his prices were usually very high. He told me he used an old Shooter Bible to establish prices. He also told me he wanted to liquidate the guns and was getting ready to retire. We worked out a deal where I would help price the guns and he would give me a small commision off the total sales. I could also buy guns for what he loaned on them. When I got to finally go into the "Gun Room" I was pretty shocked. I worked in a good sized gun store during college, but this guy has us beat ten fold. He had an accumulation of about 30 years worth of loaning and it was incredible. Using the internet we were able to sell most of his guns. I also built up a huge collection of guns. Many of them were run of the mill stuff like 10/22's, Marlin 60's, and Remington 870's. I did get to buy them very cheap. Over time I would sell these for profit and buy nicer things. So I have definitely sold a bunch of guns, but now just keep the good stuff. I have about a 1/5 of what I used to own, but plan on hanging on to this stuff. The laws have changed in my state now anyways and generally discourage the private sale of firearms so I am glad I sold them when I did. I am in a good place collection wise now and had fun getting there.