Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Why do people sell guns that they like?

Of course he was a thief. Have you people never read Les Miserables? There's more to life than huntin and fishin.

And what's silly old money when you can surround yourself with treacherous, backstabbing, false friends, right? I bet you've made stellar choices your whole life. Friend on, clearly, they need you...

Gun safes are not expandable. Gotta make room for new toys.

If extrapolating from incomplete data was a sport, you would be World Champion. Congratulations, I guess.

Trading has been my problem, swapping this for that based on some passing fascination has cost me lots of dough, and more than a few guns I wish I could have back.

I went through a minor purge for a move
Went through a major purge when I got my FFL to fund my gun buying and selling
Went through what was hopefully my last big time purge to kickstart getting out of debt to be able to afford daycare for my first kid.

Went from two gun safes to one. So we still have expansion room but the kids need to get out of daycare. Nice to be debt free though

Or because they have never seen a U-Haul trailer hitched to the back of a hearse.

I have always wondered what a funeral director would charge to do that.


It could be my last, subtle middle finger to the world.
Especially those who use it as justification to be foolish
with their money. You know the ones, they end up in trouble
and us diligent folks have shoulder their load.



You?

I sold a bunch of my guns 8 years ago to pay for my left leg! I like guns but like my leg better!

I thought that my first ever shotgun, an early m37 20 gauge would be with me long term until it wouldn’t fit in the gun safe any longer. I hung it on the wall down the basement where the depressed step-son could get it. It made a hell of a bad memory walking into his room one day after he had used that shotgun on himself. No way that I was keeping that one.

I only sell guns so others can enjoy them.....and be happy.

After a certain point, I asked myself what good were they? Some I hadn't fired--or even touched--for 20 years. If something happened to me, what would my wife do?

So I kept just a few, which I shot or which had sentimental value, told my sons to take whatever else they wanted, and have been thinning the herd for the past 20 years.

It's sort of like downsizing your house when you get old.

I tend to break guns down into 3 categories, ones with sentimental value, ones I bought because I really liked and planned to use a bunch and ones that I just bought because it was a good deal or I was mildly interested in. The sentimental ones will never get sold, the ones I bought to use would only get sold if I was really hard up and that happened some in my younger days, while the third is kind of more like a savings account in that I while I may like those guns they tend to leave pretty quick once someone wants them more than I do.

Agree. I will be selling my life long collection shortly. I have guns in my safe that I have had built, bough and traded for over 40 years. Most of them have never been shot. Not sure of the best way to sell them. When the time comes, I will sell them cheap to other hunters/ shooters that I know will enjoy and shoot them...

As a collector; when I find one in better condition than the one I have, I sell the lesser one to upgrade my collection.