Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Who thinks gun collections as investments is going to be a flop ?

Did some reading a while back after reading about Harley Davidsons future business plans - things are changing at a fast pace with the younger generation . Happened across an article/blog saying that things like the rock climbing walls in shopping malls were mostly gone - other stuff due to lack of interest etc. .
I know quite a few lads from 35 years old down to 20 years olds and basically none of them have any interest in nice rifles - firearms in general - one has an AK-47 the other M1A that his Dad gave him .
I'm in two leases and the number of youths has dropped off a lot in the last ten years - Dads say their kids just aren't interested in anything outdoors . The ones that do come live on their phone the whole time - 9-10 years old on a phone constantly - no interest in hunting or gun talk .

That leads me to believe that many will inherit firearms or dad/grandad will try to sell them off and all of us ''mature'' guys will be full up on guns . That will lead to a huge surplus of unwanted firearms .
You reckon ?

My boy is 31, he loves hunting, but doesn’t have great interest in nice or old rifles.

Trade in 5 of your grampie's rifles and get a new i-phone X

I'll take my chances on other types of investments lol. My rifles, shotguns, handguns are consumables and I plan on wearing them out. But seriously, I don't think you can make a very good argument for guns as investments on average. We've all made money buying low and selling high on them, but overall they are not what I would consider sound investments. Please feel free to disagree as just my opinion.

As long as everyone thinks that the tulip bulbs will keep increasing in value, everything is fine. The key is to get out before everyone wakes up.

Gun collections will only have value if it contains the right guns......and don't ask me what they are as I have no clue nor does anyone I know have a clue.

Clue: they will not be what you have.

i think they have been excellent investment, if bought right.
i do know this, the price appreciation on a whole bunch of guns has gone way up.
a model 28 smith maybe 200bucks some years ago, try getting one for that now.
as to the younger generation, had a four year old out couple of months ago, with help he fired a .22rifle, then a sig p320, then an ar15.
then he went in the gun room to pick out the ones he felt belonged to him.
he was pretty much on target, not realizing there was stuff set aside for him.

It varies, I’m 34 and love the older blue n walnut classics. Savage 99s, marling levers, auto 5s, Remington pre ww2 pumps. Just ordered a new Winchester 1885 single shot. Know several others my age that in to the same thing and live to be outdoors. Problem is there so many distractions between work and a family, plus all the new age men and women. Everybody watches that crap with the kardahians and all that junk. Nobody has real friends. They can do it on their phone like the OP said. I’ll take 10 friends to do things with and tip one back as opposed to hours on the social media junk.

YMMV
David

I never bought any as investments. I bought them for me to use and enjoy and couldn't care less about their value when I'm no longer able to do so.

Again, eventually, timing becomes the key.

Some types of gun prices are generation driven, some are politically driven. Then there's the economy.

I wanted to sell some this year, didn't seem like the best time, next year might be worse. ??????????????????

A volatile market for sure, who's to figure it out??

see how much you can get selling a svt40 for these days vs. a $250 dollar purchase price.

If you sell now, it was a very good investment.

^^^^^This^^^^^ although I see the long term prospects as bleak for blued and wood with probably little appreciation and possibly a decline. On the other hand cheap chitt will still be chitt and not worth anything.

Stock Market, Gold, Home(sometimes) that is an investment

I think you're better off flipping guns short term. Buy AR's when they're cheap (now). Sell them when they're expensive (Democrats in power). I've bought Colt 6920's for as low as $650 and sold them for as much as $2,700.00 during the height of one of the panics.
You want an investment buy real estate.

Beanie Babies, Pound Puppies.

"If bought right". That is the key. Guns never really appreciate, relatively, other than the black gun liberal scares.

All I have are wore out old clunkers.

Oh yeah and guns that require a rock to make them work. How crazy is that!

Clunkers!!!!

Silicon Valley executives tend not to allow their kids to have handheld electronics. They know it ruins kids.