Poll: Did you Inherit Firearms? Read this thread first!!!

[Sxsnuf]

I've inherited a handful of guns. None of them are particularly rare or valuable, to anyone except me. I've been fortunate enough to not need the $ so badly that I had to sell any of them. If things had been different, and it was a choice between keeping the guns or keeping food on the table, they would have gone down the road. Not to say I've never sold a gun or two to pay the bills, just not THOSE guns!

 

[ilikegunspdx]

WA banned guns you can give to your kids but they can't give to their kids according to their complete bs law. Perhaps by then this bs will be overturned?

WA anti-gun legislators are bubblegumers.

 

[gearhead]

My brother and I inherited Dad's collection when he passed, and treasure them equally with his vinyl. None will ever be sold, they will be handed down to his grandkids. He taught us to shoot at a young age, and I think of him every time I see them in the safe or take them out to the range. Any time I'm cleaning them I hear the lecture he gave when we were breaking them down after a range trip: "Take care of your firearms son, and they'll take care of you".

I've sold many of my own guns over the years when things got tight, I'd have a hard time looking myself in the mirror if I had parted with any of his.

His dad brought back a 1911 from the Pacific theater, which was handed down to someone in the family and taken by a divorcee nearly 30 years ago. All the grandsons are planning on trying to track this person down to open a conversation about getting it back in the family to the first born grandson. Hopefully it works out.

Everyone sees things differently, but to my family inheritance in any physical form has memories and family history attached.

 

[echo1]

My option was not listed.

I maintain the family arsenal. Dad appointed me decades ago. It's a great gig.

It starts with me. What's more important, chunks of steel or piles of paper?
I'm the first to pass on firearms. Someone is going to score hard.
Since finalizing our trust, I've named a nephew as a trustee with specific duties related to the weapons usage or disposal. My son has a ton of guns but doesn't want his named tied to any paperwork. It's my Intent for all the iron to remain as heirlooms for future descendants to learn and enjoy. To me they're historical, the C & R units. In a couple generations what's an SVT, Hakim, Garand, FN49 or even an SKS going to be worth? The antis are doing their best to disarm and enslave us. But the fiscal reality is unknown. Should my survivor need/want cash ducats, I spelled out contacts for my designated armorer to get a hold of (he's a guy just not a C&R fanatic), and I have touched bases with those folk as well. PAX

 

[The Heretic]

I inherited some of my father's firearms.

I kept his elk rifle (sporterized '03A3 that he bought from the NRA(?)). The shotgun (Remington Auto 5) I traded for a SIG pistol. Sold/traded the Garand that I had given him for his B-Day. Gave the BP revolver, Enfield and IIRC a Mosin Nagant to my SIL.

My older brother got the "deer rifle" (Winchester '94) but he said it will come back to me when he passes - it is a family heirloom. He also got the M1 Carbine and Remington Rand 1911 (also NRA purchases). Younger brother got dad's .38 S&W (or was it a Charter Arms?) revolver and my mom's Beretta 21 (.22 short). Gave the Marlin .22 bolt action to my daughter.

TL;DR - kept some, sold/traded some.

 

[Mikej]

I got to be the first one to vote "Yes, But I sold Them"!

Dad gave me his guns when we were down to Salt Lake after Christmas 2009. Said my brother wouldn't be interested in them. I'd never shot anything but a borrowed .22 rifle on a few desert rabbit hunt with school buddies. I never saw him do anything with his ten, or so guns. Most of them real old. Stuff he had to have pulled out of barrels at surplus stores with plans of working on them. He'd gone into business with his brother after his service ended 1947 with a gun shop in SoCal. I never saw him do anything with the guns.
The rifles were hung on the brick work above basement fireplace for many years. I used to mess with them, but wasn't really interested in shooting them. I was afraid of loud noises, probably the reason he never tried to introduce me to shooting? I never knew of him shooting them other than the targets in the box with a 3rd model Colt woodsman Match Target. And the deer cap/antlers in the garage that he shot with an impeccably, FULLY sporterized Model 17 that he did in the late '40s. Then there is the pre model 15 S&W .38 revolver that was his step dad's gun as law enforcement in the L.A. area. There was also a Colt 1849 pocket pistol.
What I sold:
A Winchester Model 66 "Yellow Boy" dated to 1871. Pretty beat-up but all there. And also a Winchester Model 1886 in .40-82 that looked like dad had practiced torture on the gun. When I sold it I found out it wasn't originally blued. Dad had sanded(?), ground(?) the receiver and blued it. You could see the marks under the bluing. And messed up the stock. I don't recall now if there was anything else messed up on it. There was also a Burgess shotgun. Look that one up if your not familiar with what they were! There was also some kind of Mauser. I never did find out exactly what it was. It said "Amberg" on the receiver. With other markings. That one I regret selling. Now that I'm more interested in the older stuff and have plenty of modern guns! I took that into Gun Broker on SE 82nd dr. I don't remember how I found out about the The Oregon Arms Collectors? I went to their big show and lucked into a gentleman, Denny Hannel, from Medford, that comes to the show every year. BIG Winchester guy! I got, what I considered, good money for those two Winchesters. That's when I started "The Gun fund" The Colt Pocket pistol was something that was built and not much original. I gave that to Tim Copeland to hang on the wall in his shop.

So I only have that one regret. And would like to think that the "Yellow Boy" donated parts to complete a gun or three that are a 150 years old now! And I still have the "Gun Fund". But now just ad to it from time to time when I find a double saw-buck, or two, in my pocket.

 

[jackrv]

I have a Mossberg model 142A carbine, Western Field 20 ga bolt action and an Iver Johnson 9 shot target revolver that my father left me.

 

[titsonritz]

I sold my grandfather's guns and I very seriously regret it. I f'ed up big time (not the first and probably not the last time.)

 

[Nosferatu]

If you aren't passionate or even remotely interested in it, move it along. There's someone else out there who may appreciate it and put it to good use.

It's just stuff and I will never get emotionally attached to an object. Yeah, I like nice stuff and have some of my own, but I don't expect anyone else to harbor the same affection to a thing I have that I do.

I couldn't give half a crap about what happens to my stuff after I'm dead.

 

[Ben B.]

From my great grandfather, a Winchester Model 12 in 20 gauge with which I and a son have hunted, a Remington tube fed bolt action .22 that I can't remember the model #, and a .32 Long S&W Hand Ejector from my great grandfather. I shot the .22, with its tiny sights, a lot in my teens and 20s, and everyone who tried it commented on the accuracy and fun. My youngest son loved shooting that .32 Long for a few years. They are all in decent to good shape.

Also an old 12 gauge single shot from my grandfathers's youth and it looks like a utility farm gun that was used hard by a farmer and his 3 boys, before it sat around for 50 years. I cut the barrel down to get rid of a bad internal corrosion area, and don't feel bad about it. Also will get his 20 gauge SxS Winchester Model 24 which my dad still has and is in decent shape.

2 nice enough shotguns, 1 junker that is useable, a cool old .22, and a cool old revolver. That's not too bad, when I think about it.

 

[Catbox]

I should also say my brother has our great grandfathers 30-40 Krag from the Spanish American war that he fought in.
We have had it out a time or two and as big as those bullets are, it shoots like a Cadillac rides.
Dad also had a sporterized version of the Krag and it kicks like a mule.

Also both will never be sold.
My brother does not have kids, so I am sure those will be going to my kids if & when they pass.

 

[Bobbygun]

If you aren't passionate or even remotely interested in it, move it along. There's someone else out there who may appreciate it and put it to good use.

It's just stuff and I will never get emotionally attached to an object. Yeah, I like nice stuff and have some of my own, but I don't expect anyone else to harbor the same affection to a thing I have that I do.

I couldn't give half a crap about what happens to my stuff after I'm dead.

I agree with everything you said, with the exception of the bolded (my bolding) part. I just can't help myself. Some things I do get attached to. Generally, it isn't even the "nice stuff". For instance, my older sister gave me a Schrade Walden sheath knife for Christmas when I was very young. Sis is gone, but the knife stays with me. The blade is narrow from having been sharpened so many times. I've carved on a lot of elk and deer with it. It probably wouldn't bring $10 on Craigslist, but I wouldn't take $1,000 for it.

 

[toonerfrank]

Did you receive any firearms from a family member or friend and did you keep them and why or sell them and why?

My first firearm as an adult was given to me by a dead guy. Who killed himself, with a different gun of course.


But, sold it a couple years later. Just gathering dust after a while and I don't keep what I don't use or adore.

Changed my life forever, introduced me into this awesome hobby!



I've since owned over 100 pewpewpew toys, but at the moment, I own zero firearms.

I learned I'm not really into guns, more into shooting them.

 

[Mikej]

From my great grandfather, a Winchester Model 12 in 20 gauge with which I and a son have hunted, a Remington tube fed bolt action .22 that I can't remember the model #, and a .32 Long S&W Hand Ejector from my great grandfather. I shot the .22, with its tiny sights, a lot in my teens and 20s, and everyone who tried it commented on the accuracy and fun. My youngest son loved shooting that .32 Long for a few years. They are all in decent to good shape.

Also an old 12 gauge single shot from my grandfathers's youth and it looks like a utility farm gun that was used hard by a farmer and his 3 boys, before it sat around for 50 years. I cut the barrel down to get rid of a bad internal corrosion area, and don't feel bad about it. Also will get his 20 gauge SxS Winchester Model 24 which my dad still has and is in decent shape.

2 nice enough shotguns, 1 junker that is useable, a cool old .22, and a cool old revolver. That's not too bad, when I think about it.

I just remembered! I'd forgot about the model 12 20 gauge that my dad had in the front closet by the front door. LOADED! When he gave me the others that year. I probably sold that at Gun Broker too. Dad dug that out of the basement after they had some issues with thieves nocking on the door late at night trying to scam them. He was pretty old then. Not sure he even knew how to handle it anymore? Ish!

 

[Mikej]

Changed my life forever, introduced me into this awesome hobby!

Where's the reloading equipment? The makes the hobby "For Real"!

 

[toonerfrank]

Where's the reloading equipment? The makes the hobby "For Real"!

I don't trust reloads as it seems they're in use often when a firearm blows up in someone's hand.

 

[Bobbygun]

But, sold it a couple years later. Just gathering dust after a while and I don't keep what I don't use or adore.

Dude! What's not to adore??? She's a beauty.

 

[toonerfrank]

Dude! What's not to adore??? She's a beauty.

True, but I'd be a pack-rat if I kept everything that was appealing!

Too many hobbies costs money when it's tight too.

 

[Alexx1401]

I don't trust reloads as it seems they're in use often when a firearm blows up in someone's hand.

Rolling your own is certainly NOT for everyone but, if someone rolls one that blows up it was totally preventable. Back in the day when we could not just order ammo sent to us I often bought commercial re rolls. That did make me a little leery since I had no control over the process. Was still buying some when I bought the first .40, Firestar. Had one case blow out with no damage, then noticed another one had also. Just not bad enough to stop thing. I dumped the rest of that I had and that was the end up buying it already done for me.

 

[Mikej]

I don't trust reloads as it seems they're in use often when a firearm blows up in someone's hand.

And that is why the smart loader has some absolute's that are every bit as important as the "Four basic Rules" of gun handling.