[Perazzi_MX8]

I have watched many friends simply die with them than actually sell them. It’s a shame but maybe it’s easier to do that. As we age and get more screwed up we somehow think we will get better and can use them again. Kids usually sell them for a bargain price when they clean out where you live with a roll-off dumpster. I’m as guilty as my friends in this, but what do you shooters think?

 

[kevinl]

Other options: Leave to your state association, local club, give it to someone that will appreciate it, or give it to someone that has helped out the sport. Remember it is yours give. Just make sure if it is a bequest that it is in writing.

 

[slide action]

I will keep mine until I die. My wife is a trapshooter and will have a pretty good idea what they are worth. She won't let them go at fire sale prices. She will sell most of them but probably keep a couple for herself. Other than maybe another pistol ( small one to carry concealed) I have bought all the guns I will ever have. When I'm gone they will pay for my funeral and leave enough for her to take a nice vacation ( which I hope she does).

 

[MDeY]

I have a list of who gets what. Guys in the family that like a certain firearm. In my trust.

 

[Rick Barker]

After I die, I don’t care what happens to them. Wife has dumpster number on speed dial. Guns, ammo, thousands of N scale RR stock, 150 1/18th diecasts. tools, RC aircraft, kits, plans and a hundred or so, car, rail road and aviation hard copy books.

 

[JBrooks]

People should look in their safe and decide what needs to go. Find a youth 501C 3 and donate a gun or two. Get an appraisal and deduct the donation from your taxes. You will probably get more money than if you tried to sell it and certainly more than your heirs will get wholesaling them out. The kids can sell it or raffle it and get a financial benefit. You get the tax write off and the satisfaction that you have done a good thing. Or, you can sit on your guns and your butt until they haul it off to the funeral home.

 

[heavyg01]

This is a sad tread to talk about. I have a 6 and 4 year old boy and my wife. I have bought each of them over&under hoping it will be a family thing in the future.

 

[Capt_ed]

I'm going to figure out how to sell mine from Canada to the USA. My Ljutic Mono and BiGun are worth way more in the States.

 

[Jon Arnett]

After I die, I don’t care what happens to them. Wife has dumpster number on speed dial. Guns, ammo, 5000 N scale RR stock, 150 1/18th diecasts. tools, RC aircraft, kits, plans and a hundred or so, car, rail road and aviation hard copy books.

I wanna come over to your house to play sometime! 🙂

 

[Rick Barker]

I wanna come over to your house to play sometime! 🙂

I started collecting my old man-retirement toys when I was in my 20’s and could afford to buy them. I forgot about my 37 Chevy hotrod. She will probably sell that, it could take up a whole dumpster.

 

[MDeY]

Michigan Govenor and our President have signed sooo many new anti gun laws in the past few days, better study just what the heck I can legally do with them?
My wife will probably automatically be a criminal for something. At least I assume I'm croking first.
Hey, this forum is probably a direct line to the FBI, CIA, and Joe's nurses at his daycare center. BWO.
And remember, if you buy a gun from now on, use cash.

 

[mayneak]

The answer is never, you never sell them.

 

[Rick Barker]

Ghost guns or manufactured without serial numbers will be hardest for people to sell, because ATF and recent Biden EO’s makes it illegal to transfer a gun without a SN.

 

[Curtissair]

That is tough one to figure. I hope my boys want to shoot trap someday. If they do they can have them.

 

[The Canuck]

My wife has her own firearms that were made to fit her and hasn't expressed any interest in mine to date. She has three grown boys with families. Two hunt on the extremely rare occasion but are more into fishing and power sports like snowmobiles etc. and are definitely not into trap or skeet.
I do not have kids of my own and though my sister has three boys none of them shoot or are interested at all. I'll likely sell mine when the time comes though I would like to be buried with at least one of my waterfowl guns and my favorite trap gun.
I'm thinking my Browning Grade V Model 12 20ga and my Perazzi TMS. I'll need them where I'm going when I die and of course a casket full of flats of ammo! 😇

 

[jk80]

We don't have kids, and as little as our nieces and nephew's come around they'd best not be looking to be in the will. The last few years I've steadily been weeding out stuff, donating trophys to youth programs, sold buckles and sterling and gold trophies and pitched a bunch more. Just less to aggravate the executor of our will.

 

[WVHick]

My guns will be left to my kids, of course. I like the idea of donating to a local club if you have no kids.

 

[stocker1042]

...and a little legal quirk that my lawyer told me when he updated our wills. If you live in a state like mine that has some sort of firearms ID card, you have to will those firearms to someone with a card. If you will them to someone without a card, they have to get one before they can possess the gun...and if they can't do so before the will is executed...that's a problem. In addition, whoever the executor of the will is cannot even legally transport them out of your house without a card.

He stated that most people who die with guns in NJ call a dealer who specializes in gun sales...and you know what happens from there. They come in, offer next to nothing, and take it (along with the ammo) out of the house. I would imagine the same scenario happens all over the country when specific instructions aren't laid out in one's final plans. Most non-gun people or people overwhelmed with the execution of a will just want those things gone and move onto the bigger items that are more common to sell like vehicles, stocks, and real estate.

....and as an aside...if you don't have a properly witnessed will...you are leaving a mess for whoever has to clean up your estate. It really is worth the money to get one done.

 

[colonel klink]

My wife and kids will keep the guns and probably throw "me" in the dumpster! A cheap funeral.

 

[Jim Zee]

I am currently just trying to figure what I really need , one trap gun, one sporting gun , two field guns ( 12/20 ga) etc. I am doing the same for my handguns. Sell what I can live without and leave the rest for whomever.
Jim