At What Age Would You Start Selling Off Your Guns?

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Posted: 1/18/2021 3:53:44 PM EDT

We're assuming you have no one to leave them to, and so what age would you start thinking to yourself, "I really have too many. I'll never live long enough to wear all of these out. Why am I keeping them?"

So let's say you'd keep a couple for self defense and to go with your buds to the range, but you decide the rest are better off putting money in your pocket.

At what age do you think you would conclude that? Or have you already?

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:54:29 PM EDT

[#1]

In before “bury them with me”.

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:55:24 PM EDT

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I just want my favorite rifle and pistol along with a small load out

Worst case scenario you have some guns to dig up

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:55:36 PM EDT

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What are "guns" that you speak of?

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:56:09 PM EDT

[#4]

When you become no longer able to use them safely.

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:56:42 PM EDT

[#5]

My boat, the Patriot, sank with all my guns.

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:56:53 PM EDT

[#6]

Now. This is the best time to cash out on our gun hobbies and take up Bingo.

Age doesn't matter.

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:58:00 PM EDT

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My dad couldn't use iron sights very well after age 60, so anything he owned that couldn't easily mount a scope got jettisoned when he hit the big Six-O.

At 74 he couldn't hand cycle a semi auto pistol anymore. He had to switch to revolvers.

I used to be able to shoot either an M1 Garand or M1A off hand accurately. These days they're a tad too heavy to shoot like that, so I don't own any of those anymore.

With regard to AR's, I'd shun an HBAR for the same reason. Pencil barrels are already my friend, although I can still shoot an M4 profile barrel AR effectively off hand.

I'm in my mid fifties.

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:58:18 PM EDT

[#8]

Why would I sell them just because I get old?

Posted: 1/18/2021 3:58:45 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/18/2021 3:59:15 PM EDT

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When you become no longer able to use them safely.

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This.

At some point, after I lose the strength to "Rambo" my M60, I might consider it.
Still going to keep stuff I can effectively use, until I can't.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:00:27 PM EDT

[#11]

I would only get rid of something if I couldn't physically use it any more or had no need or want for it.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:00:34 PM EDT

[#12]

I have kids so never.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:00:36 PM EDT

[#13]

I'll just give them away when the time is right

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:02:01 PM EDT

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If you have no family or friends and you die, all your stuff goes to the state to do as they wish with it.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:04:31 PM EDT

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I have kids, so I'll pass them down.

If I didn't have kids, it would probably depend on my financial situation and physical condition. As long as I don't need the money and can still physically use them, I'll keep enjoying them at the range. So maybe sometime in my 80's I might start selling them if I was no longer able to shoot them.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:05:06 PM EDT

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Yup. If I had guns. Which I don’t.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:07:30 PM EDT

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doesn't matter, I'm getting rid of all mine this year.....no point in keeping them, we are entering The Age of Aquarius. We are all going to be at peace......

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:07:34 PM EDT

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Yup. If I had guns. Which I don’t.

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I have kids so never.

Yup. If I had guns. Which I don’t.

Same. I sold mine. I have nothing left.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:08:56 PM EDT

[#19]

I don't have any guns.

I'm just here for the witty banter

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:09:33 PM EDT

[#20]

None Of The Above. I have grandsons.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:09:38 PM EDT

[#21]

I don't have any Mr ATF man

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:09:56 PM EDT

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Right...I heard the name ARFcom and assumed it was about dogs or something.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:11:26 PM EDT

[#23]

50-55,, you cowards

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:12:01 PM EDT

[#24]

All my guns belong to my kids and grandkids.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:13:00 PM EDT

[#25]

I don’t own any icky guns Mr ATF Man.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:13:05 PM EDT

[#26]

I am probably going to start selling most of my NFA stuff in the next couple of years. Obviously it might take a little bit of time to find someone who is interested in buying a 115-year old obscure machine gun, or an 84mm recoilless anti-tank gun.

I figure the Madsen will probably have to go to Rock Island Auctions, and the Carl Gustav might be impossible to sell because of liability concerns.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:13:30 PM EDT

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J. M. Davis did just that. His tomb is in his hun museum.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:16:17 PM EDT

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Been thinking about this very thing lately.
My BIL died at 67 from brain cancer. I was in charge of selling his guns. Sure I keep a few. But sold the ones I did not want.

I have no children. I do have friends. But still money is money.

I just turned 59

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:19:14 PM EDT

[#29]

Over 30 of mine are my dad’s. They will never leave me.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:21:02 PM EDT

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What are you asking for it?
I'll sign a liability waiver.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:23:37 PM EDT

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As if that really matters.

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Posted: 1/18/2021 4:25:37 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/18/2021 4:25:38 PM EDT

[#33]

200

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:33:00 PM EDT

[#34]

3 days after I'm dead.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:42:16 PM EDT

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My answer. I would rather give them away to make people happy, but I have a list of who gets what in the event I can't do it in person.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:47:46 PM EDT

[#36]

I've actually been contemplating this more and more lately as I'm getting up there into advanced age. Plus, I have been shooting less and less. Now would be a good time to get rid of stuff (considering the current market) but I'm thinking an estate sale might be a better route to take and get rid of everything at one time.

So rather than an exact age, I'll likely just wait until I'm no longer able to go shooting, become incapacitated or die. Then my family can sweat the details on selling them. Its unfortunate but I also have no kids that can legally own the guns due to the places they live. Plus, just like any other items we own, I'm sure they'd rather that stuff was sold in an estate sale and they have the money instead.

Posted: 1/18/2021 4:48:43 PM EDT

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I'm 46 and am in the midst of my great gun purge. WTF do I need 6 ARs and 11 AKs? I'm going to try to cut the number at least in half. Just have to make sure that I have enough spare parts to keep the ones that I keep running. Fact is, I'm working on becoming a bit of a minimalist and the safe, mags, and ammo take up way too much space.

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:23:02 PM EDT

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When I can't see the front sight post, but, I can still pull the handle of a "one-armed-bandit". 10ring

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:23:48 PM EDT

[#39]

I sold off a bunch and they all magically regenerated, so not at my current age.

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:27:38 PM EDT

[#40]

My loving children have already divided them amongst themselves pending my death.

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:30:17 PM EDT

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Same. I sold mine. I have nothing left.

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Guns? ewwwwwww scary things, got rid of them all. My gov will take care of me.

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:30:59 PM EDT

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I am younger than the ages listed in your poll and I started selling a few years ago... I just got tired of having "stuff" that wasn't used. Spare parts are fine. Multiple, duplicate spare rifles is silly.

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Posted: 1/18/2021 5:31:52 PM EDT

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I'm in my late 60's, now. I'm guessing in a few years, but I'll keep some favorites to the end. By "the end", I think at this point we know it could be in a hospital bed, or in a dark alley.

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:33:00 PM EDT

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I'll die with a few of them, just for self-defense, and because screw you this is America. But there will come a day when some are too heavy, too awkward, etc. I'm 45, and fit, so I have a few decades to LARP with the fun toys, but after 75 the idea that I may ever be up in the mountains Red Dawning is a bit far-fetched.

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:33:55 PM EDT

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Been thinking about this very thing lately.
My BIL died at 67 from brain cancer. I was in charge of selling his guns. Sure I keep a few. But sold the ones I did not want.

I have no children. I do have friends. But still money is money.

I just turned 59

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I can sympathize. I'm dealing with the things recently left behind by a friend who passed. No fun, is it.

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:34:52 PM EDT

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I am younger than the ages listed in your poll and I started selling a few years ago... I just got tired of having "stuff" that wasn't used. Spare parts are fine. Multiple, duplicate spare rifles is silly.

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I have two AR-15s. I consider one my main rifle, and one my spare parts. I wouldn't do that for every firearm I own, but I do see some sense in multiples. Obviously there comes a point where it's just silly though.

Posted: 1/18/2021 5:37:31 PM EDT

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I have two AR-15s. I consider one my main rifle, and one my spare parts. I wouldn't do that for every firearm I own, but I do see some sense in multiples. Obviously there comes a point where it's just silly though.

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I always thought four was the magic number: one to get stolen, one to kaboom, one to need repairs, and one left over to be pulled from my cold dead hands.

It was a way of trying to account for every possible way to lose one and still have one left over. I realize it's more of a mental exercise since you could lose all of them in a burglary or natural disaster.