I'm glad you aren't planning to sell them. I've been watching Pawn Stars lately and it gets me so sad to see heirlooms and personal history get sold away for a couple hundred bucks by grand kids and children of our vets.
I watch Pawn Stars all the time and was always griping about these idiots selling off family history, great old pieces for half of their value and then one day I realized something important....
If they weren't selling those guns, they would wait for the next gun buy back program and get a coupon for a new pair of Nikes or some other trivial crap. Listening to some of those idiots, you can just imagine the discussion at the house:
"Honey, why do you have this old gun laying around?"
"I don't know dear, its something grandpa brought back from the war"
"Well, I don't like it...its a tool made for killing people...its just evil, it represents everything wrong with Americans."
"You're right honey, our little son Scooter should not grow up in a house where war and violence and (shudder) guns are a way of life. We should get rid of it and use the money for a down payment on a Prius!"
"Good idea sweetie! We could even send the money to feed starving African babies or something! Who is that big neandrethal guy on that TV show about pawn shops? Go take it to him and see if he will give you anything for it."
"I love you honey bunch!"
"I love you too snookie pookums!"
Anyway...it finally winds up in the world of collectors where someone can appreciate it, care for it and preserve it for the next generation...