I've sold more than I can remember. Most of them had issues when received that I resolved. I have several I have not tried out but I don't buy new guns so all my "un-fired by me" units are vintage and I own them for collector reasons.

I am currently on the fence about selling my 1892 copy and my customized by me Blackhawk in .357 as a "set" along with all my .357 loading/casting gear and components.

I've sold guns to fund another project so in essence I've maintained the same number of guns. Except, at the Fredericksburg Gunshow I finally broke down and bought an AR. My wife, bless her heart, doesn't question me or complain when I do get another but she enjoys hunting and shooting as much as I do. A few of my collection were handed down to me by family which my son will get when he finishes college. The others I'm giving to friends and family when I pass on.

Typically I don't sell firearms since I've been out of that business for many years. The only time I part with one is when I see someone asking for something that I have. When I wasn't so busy with work one of my favorite things to do was to buy an old bolt action that had a sound barrel and action and spend a weekend reworking and bedding the stock, free floating the barrel, and working up a perfect load for the rifle. After that the rifles would kind of get set aside although sometimes I would hunt with them. I have one rifle which is an FMP G3 copy that I have bought and sold five times over the years. I would always sell it at the top of the market and somehow some way I'd always find it again and buy it at the bottom of the market. I bought that rifle a few days after my 18th birthday and it is still new and unfired. As it sits now I have hundreds if not thousands of firearms and have been collecting them for so long that I don't even really remember what all I have. Last year I was shocked when I was digging through a safe that I have in a shop at my mom's house and stumbled across a former Detroit SWAT team HK mp5 that I thought that I had sold years ago. Had I not had the NFA papers attached to it in an envelope I wouldn't have even known that it was select fire.

My Man.............

Never seen the need to sell up to this point. If I want a new gun, I’m fine waiting until I have saved up, never needed one so fast that I had to sell another.

You also never know how someone else down the line will value that gun if you plan on handing them down. My great Uncle had an old trapdoor .45-70 that no one knew about and ended getting handed down to my dad. We’ve had a really great time getting that gun in shooting condition and throwing some lead through it. It hadn’t been shot in probably 50 years and could’ve been sold, but we were both glad it wasn’t.

Well, this will start an argument BUT it seems manufacturers are on a downhill slope on turning out product. I have some old S&W revolvers and you cannot buy that quality today. Therefore, no way I am selling them. If the firearm is simply something that wasn't that great to start, then okay as long as I get a market price.

It’s not a need to have to sell one to buy another, or needing another one quickly. It’s simply dispersing of an underutilized tool to free up space in the safe, to possibly be filled by a firearm that will be used more often than once every 3-4 years.


As far as how someone else will value it, this isn’t an heirloom model 70 that I shot my first deer with. This is a tool that has no sentimental value to me nor to my kids.

As I’m the only left handed person in the family, and my kids have their own guns, any hand me down value is negated other than the market value of the gun

I've never sold a gun I've owned. I will pass them on to my children, grandkids, and great grandkids. I wish I had the same problem blkt2, as I believe there is no way in hell you can have too many guns. In this day and age, there is no telling what our government might do.

I've never sold a gun, only ever traded. Guns will always hold value in one shape or form so I'll never have one less in the safe but for maybe a very short bit until I buy the next.

And you hope with all your heart that they will cherish them and they will mean as much to them as they do to you.....but the truth is they probably won't.

Like every old gun I've gotten passed down to me....they sit in the safe, not being used, right next to the .257 wby I've got for sale.....

Broad brush, for something that needed a tiny artist brush.

Manufacturers are not on a downhill slope, not at all. CNC machinery today is holding much tighter tolerances and making the product faster. Today's mass production rifles would have been competitive against customs of 30 years ago.

Bad news for you, you got old. Revolvers just are not as popular as they once were. I agree, old S&W revolvers are fine pieces of machinery, but today, S&W cannot justify the expense to pump into a type of firearm they aren't going to sell as many of as several other types. We can probably give Glock the credit for this beginning in 1984.

I can point you to a fairly large SWAT team in the metroplex using S&W pistols. But, they are not revolvers, they are M&P 2.0 wearing red dot optics.

I sold all of these guns and only wish I had the Ruger Single Six back. I bought and sold all of them except the A-Bolt when I was about 20 years old. I do have a Remington 700 VLS/.308 that is a safe queen and beautiful gun that I have considered selling and buying something else lately. I just have a hard time turning them loose. Only sold one gun since 1980.

Taurus 38 special
Winchester model 1200
Winchester 22 semi auto
Ruger single six 22
Browning A Bolt 300-win mag (BOSS)

I have only sold 2 guns in my life, one I regret selling and the other I regret buying in the first place. The one I wish I still had was a blue steel model 29 in .44 Mag, it was the 6 1/2 in bbl Dirty Harry edition that came in a wooden presentation case. But when you are a young father and the kid needs diapers, you gotta do what ya gotta do.

I've sold two. Basically to standardize the ammo inventory and also they were rifles I don't shoot or have much use for.

That’s right…………so keep it, darn it.

It's not the number of guns that you have, it's how much ammo you have. A guy on here is a fireman close to my house and when I told him how much I have in my house he said that they don't like responding to calls at a place like that.

Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your perspective I've got to start selling guns because I have twins coming and need a bigger house and don't like borrowing money and don't want to sell the house I have now. Y'all may start seeing some really interesting listings from me.

Every time I sell a gun I end up with sellers remorse. So it's pretty hard to pry anything out of my safe these days.

Then again.. I only buy guns I like and plan to use. So that's my justification..

Ammo pops. Lots of gun powder and primers is a bigger concern.

But most people have gas cans in their garages, and some form of propane tank. Those make their own drama.

I have lots of guns I haven’t shot in years but I have a grandson and he will get them all.

I've actually broke even on the last two I've sold. But, yes, this is definitely my Modis Aparanji. Although I do occasionally shoot them. Headed to Rifle Gear today for their NAF Fun Day.

The gun has to turn you on.

If you look at it and just say “meh”, sell it.

Life is too short to hang on to guns that don’t do it for you.

Old guy at a gun show told me, “guns are like horses, buy it, race it for a while, then sell it”

If you really fall in love with it, keep it.

Only regret selling 1 out of many.

(Dads old win70 .222)

I'm asking myself this question about a Winchester 94 22M that I thought I would let ride in my ranger and shoot varmints of opportunity with. It's too pretty and all I do is have fun at the range with it.

I try and keep the ones i know I use and hand the others off to family if I feel like they can use it.

Guns?

Heck, you ought to see all of the tools that I’ve accumulated. I Have a small fortune in tools that I know I probably will never use. But, the quickest way to need or want a tool is to get rid of it.

I quit building knives about 10 + years ago but still have all of the materials and tools in case I get the urge.

Have about a bucket full of silver coins that I’ve collected. Not for sale but worth quite a bit of $.

I quit bird hunting years ago but still have my shotguns and a lot of shells.I finally gave the press and all the tools, shot and powder to a friend.

Have a collectors Winchester in 38-40 caliber and ancient cartridges. Shot it once about 30 to 40 years ago.

My point is that I buy things that I want. And, I keep them.

BTW, on my second wife but we went separate directions when I realized that she wasn’t really working late.