Who Will Have Your Firearms When You Are Gone?

[4v50 Gary]

I'd like my Civil War guns (all repros) to go to a National Battlefield Park or historical museum where they may be used by interpreters/re enactors to teach with. Ditto for any of my long rifles (all modern made stuff) to some similar institution.

 

[TonyInFla]

I have 3 adult son. they've expressed an interest so my guns will go them

 

[jeepnik]

Lefty Guns?

Things like this.







I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

 

[Tangent]

I'm taking them with me.
Actually, I figure my soon-to-be stepson (9) will inherit most of my collection. Although, my youngest brother (46) is coveting my latest acquisition... a 1965 Winchester Model 100 .308 rifle.
But, yeah, the boy will get most of them.

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

We can see from this post that you are certainly very honest.

Is that sarcasm?

 

[dcarch]

I want to be buried wearing one of them. I suppose all the rest will go to my (future) kids and grandkids.

 

[Driftertank]

I'm still in my 20's, unmarried and with no children. Only things of any intrinsic value that i own outright are my guns and my cars. I haven't really put a lot of thought into it, but i should sit down and think it through.

Most of my friends would probably try to claim my Kimber, given the chance. Probably ditto my PTR-91. I should probably decide who gets those, then name my best friend as executor to the disposition of the rest. I'd like to think they could be left to people who would keep them, and use them, and remember me, as opposed to selling them for a quick buck, which is why i wouldn't leave them to my family. My mom and stepfather have all the guns they need, and my brother wouldn't make much use of them, and probably would sell them off in short order.

 

[TennJed]

my wife gets everything. She grew up around guns, but is not what you would call an gun person. She knows her way around them and fore the most part what the values are on them

We have 3 children and she would be in charge of passing them on among them.

If something happens to both of us that responsibility goes to first my father and second to my brother..

 

[PR-NJ]

Ditto, my wife. Half of them are technically hers anyway (from our days in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey).

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

Ah well, no need for a PM then. I do strive to be honest. Sorry for misunderstanding you.

 

[SaxonPig]

Who will get my guns? Highest bidder. A few will be bequeathed to friends, the rest (along with everything else) go to the wife who will sell it all.

Should be a Hell of a sale. Too bad I have to miss it.

 

[Deus Machina]

I say it in jest to my friends, but "I smoke, I drink, and I'm licensed to carry a firearm while riding a motorcycle."

So... probably my father.

Seriously, he's a tough old cuss. His dad was only taken by self-induced liver problems after it weakened him enough that he could no longer punch the tumors hard enough. My dad doesn't drink and has quit smoking, so he's more likely to go out fighting off a home invasion--probably after I die of old age. And I'm 26.

Failing that, as it is, they're going to my best friend, who had moved across the country. He may not keep all of them, but he knows who would best appreciate them. Since I've done a good job so far of avoiding children and haven't had much luck finding a woman I can stand that has the same point of view in my direction, that's the most likely route.

 

[Grmlin]

Well this is the third time this subject has come up for me this month. I guess I better get it it taken care of and put it on paper. The guns I recieved from my dad and the important ones I have aquired will go to my only son. He's still to young but my nephews will recieve a few and hold his in trust untill he's old enough. My 3grandsons/3grandaughters (step) will also get a few and of course the wife will keep a couple she likes.

 

[sedona]

I have 2 young friends in their 20s that will get most of my guns.I also have a couple of left handed benelli montefelltros nib that i may just sell off because i don't know any left handed friends.My looser nephew gets nothing.

 

[Black Butte]

View this video to see the complications that can arise when family members clamor over a decedent's gun collection:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwCG-wB9opE

 

[Grmlin]

Can I get in on any biding for the lefties?

 

[3KillerBs]

My husband and kids, of course.

For reasons of hand size and trigger reach, most will probably end up in my daughter's hands.

 

[csa77]

nobody in my family realy loves guns they would just end up selling them the day i die. i have no interest in giving them to my family who wont appreciate them the way i do...

90% of my collection are mil surplus rifles and some antiques, those i want to give away one at a time to the younger kids who show the same interest and excitement for the old historical firearms that i had when i was there age.

the new stuff like my AR Ak's and my AUG id like to give them away too but they can go to almost anyone along as i see them at the range alot before hand.that way i know they wont become safe queens.


lastly id like to be buried with my 1911 in my hand.

 

[Old Time Hunter]

I would hope that the ones that hold significant value, either emotional or monetary, that my five children would see to hold on to those.

The rest my wife can sell at her annual rummage sales.

Even though I come from a series of multiple generations that used hunting seasons as the central focus of family get togethers, it seems as though my off spring do not have the same enthusiasm. Two of my boys generally make the effort to join me annually for our deer hunt, but it has been a long time since they came with me on 'yote hunts, bear hunts, elk hunts, turkey hunts, duck hunting, and any other form of hunting I can get involved with. It is a shame too, as along with my firearms, we have a couple of hundred acres of prime forested hunting land that includes a five bedroom/2 bath "hunting" cabin which I built with my own two hands over the past thirty five years. This place is nestled into wilderness type forested land five miles from the nearest paved road with thousands of acres surrounding it to preserve the isolation. Heck, we catch brook trout 30 feet from the deck. Neither my wife, nor my children have shown any interest in continuing the traditions.

As far as my arms collection, there are five guns that have been handed down from generation to generation. Hopefully at least those will be carried forward. There is a 1863 Springfield that my great-great grandfather carried in the Civil War, an 1873 Winchester that he bought in 1882, a 1892 Winchester my great-grandfather purchased new in 1896, an Ithaca side by side .410 that my grandfather received on Christmas morning in 1912, and my father's '94 Winchester .32 Spec he received in November of 1940. Of the remaining ninety or so guns, I would hope they hang on to my first rifle, a Glenfield 30A that I bought with my own paper route money when I was twelve, my two primary hunting rifles (.444 Timber Carbine and .444 Black Shadow), my .44 Mag Trapper ( have harvested 13 whitetail, one Black Bear, and one very large Bull Elk up in the Bitteroots, across the Clark Fork in western Montana), a couple of my Trapdoors hopefully too. The AR's, Ak's, MilSurps, custom bolt guns, and such can be sold at the rummage sale, hopefully to people that have the same enthusiasm as I did.

 

[gym]

As of yet no one, As my family is spread accross the country and none of them shoot, or have an interest in guns. My wife, "if she's still around", and she will sell them, maybe keep one, depending how old she is and if she stays in FL or moves to NY with her son.
Maybe we should start a service that is like a reverse mortgage for guns. Sell them now, and the new owner takes them when you die. Of course they may have a long wait, but if the price was right, "like half", it might work. People sell just about anything, life insurance policys, settlements, houses, why not guns.They sell them for a 50% discount, which would pay for say a 30 yr old who for a thousand,, could get a wilson combat that probablly will doubble again by then.It must work, a heck of a lot of tv commercials for reverse mortgages are on TV. My sister in law, hit it right at the top, and got 200,000, for a 30,000, dollar condo in Del-Rey, now it's worth 30 again ,but she got the cash.

 

[THowie]

The kids...if they want them.

 

[searcher451]

I thought at one time that my son would get them, as we shoot a lot together and he appreciates them all. But my daughter has recently expressed an interest, so I'll have to take a closer look ... a nice problem to have, I think.

 

[gshipps]

With any luck, I hope mine are all worn out and used up by then.

 

[clg114]

My wife will keep her gun,the kids will get the rest. They will just have to figure out who gets what.

 

[Auf Grosser Fahrt]

We have some kind of old shotgun, a sporterized Enfield .303, and a Remington .22 from the '40s that belonged to my father-in-law. My wife's only interest in them is from the sentimental perspective...meaning she doesn't care to touch them, or shoot them, but they were Daddy's, so we keep them.

I've made sure my two daughters have always known they belonged to their Grandpa Jack, whom they never got to know, so they can make an educated choice some day on whether to keep them or ditch them.

My parents had a little Galesi .25 they bought in '66 and kept in their nightstand forever that my girls aren't really conscious of, but I put a note in the box with it explaining whose it was, so, again somebody someday going through stuff can deicide whatever.

Me? My love affair with guns has been a shallow one, with a wide variety moving in and moving out over the years. The only one to stay with me is a Ruger New Model Blackhawk I bought during the Bicenntennial from a dear friend at the time who needed money. It's been in my nightstand for over thirty years. I figure one of my daughters' future husbands will think it's a pretty cool gun and take it someday.

If I had some huge collection of classics, I might care more.