Posted: 3/13/2015 9:30:06 PM EDT
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I think I am going to dump most of my centerfire rifles, just keeping the M1s, M14, M17 and XCR I think
I never shoot the others, several I have NEVER shot, and I am tired of fighting for ammo for the more obscure ones any reason not to do this? alot of them are garbage anyways, Russian SKS, SVT, VZ52 etc. |
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Personally, I've taken to the frame of mind where I only have one type of gun, but multiple of it.
I had multiple concealed carry guns (P2000sk), multiple open carry guns/suppressor hosts (USP), multiple SHTF rifle (AUG A3), etc. I'm planning for gun purchases to be illegal someday. So I'm duplicating things so I can easily train and replace parts as needed. Just my way of doing things now. I've been selling off some of the oddballs, but some I can't bring myself to sell (Benelli M1, HK P7). |
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I say do it. Better to have fewer guns ---> more $$$ for ammo/range time. You'll have more fun and ultimately become a better shooter as well. This is the truth. I shoot a lot.... I'm at the range two or three times a week and compete in three disciplines a month. People think I have a shit-ton of guns. I really don't... Two AR's, one .308 AR, a VZ-58, 10/22, M1 Carbine (wife's), couple of shotguns and a half dozen or or handguns. What I've got is a shit-ton of mags and piles of ammunition. I like it better that way. |
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I think if you're not shooting them, sell them on to someone else who might. I am facing a similar decision. I have a Daniel Defense DDM4 V11 I have barely even fired, a LaRue Covert Rifle case, and thousands of rounds of xm193. I had an M&P 15 before, which I shot a few times, and it was fun, but living in California, a lot of the key fun of AR-15s has been sucked away by punitive gun control laws. We can't have a magazine release, we have to use an awkward bullet button to release magazines. We can only use 10-round magazines as well.
I picked up a .357 Magnum lever gun that I just can't stop shooting. It's way more fun for me to shoot, and it's not crippled by industrial strength stupid gun control laws. I would never, ever ever use an AR for home defense here in California. Even if I didn't get prosecuted, which I probably would, I would certainly lose any civil lawsuit because I used an evil black assault machine gun, and what law abiding citizen has such a weapon? I'm thinking of just selling off my AR stuff and buying a really nice new Winchester lever gun that I can actually enjoy. Someday, when I get out of California, I'll get another AR. |
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Quoted: I think if you're not shooting them, sell them on to someone else who might. I am facing a similar decision. I have a Daniel Defense DDM4 V11 I have barely even fired, a LaRue Covert Rifle case, and thousands of rounds of xm193. I had an M&P 15 before, which I shot a few times, and it was fun, but living in California, a lot of the key fun of AR-15s has been sucked away by punitive gun control laws. We can't have a magazine release, we have to use an awkward bullet button to release magazines. We can only use 10-round magazines as well. I picked up a .357 Magnum lever gun that I just can't stop shooting. It's way more fun for me to shoot, and it's not crippled by industrial strength stupid gun control laws. I would never, ever ever use an AR for home defense here in California. Even if I didn't get prosecuted, which I probably would, I would certainly lose any civil lawsuit because I used an evil black assault machine gun, and what law abiding citizen has such a weapon? I'm thinking of just selling off my AR stuff and buying a really nice new Winchester lever gun that I can actually enjoy. Someday, when I get out of California, I'll get another AR. Lever action rifles are fucking awesome. I have a Uberti 1873 Winchester rifle clone in .45 Long Colt that is just so much fun to shoot - it gets just as much attention at the range as some of the more modern designed firearms I own. Eventually, I'd love to get a couple Pedersoli guns - a Brown Bess and Sharps 1859. Old guns are just as much fun as ARs - no question. |
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I think I am going to dump most of my centerfire rifles, just keeping the M1s, M14, M17 and XCR I think I never shoot the others, several I have NEVER shot, and I am tired of fighting for ammo for the more obscure ones any reason not to do this? alot of them are garbage anyways, Russian SKS, SVT, VZ52 etc. I am in the process of doing the same thing. I like to shoot, and things that don't get shot, are going away to fund ammo and more guns. |
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There will come a time when unregistered semiautomatic rifles will be impossible to acquire legally. That time may come in 5 years or in 50, but I'm not feeling optimistic about it being far off.
I sell/trade my Fudd guns without hesitation, but view off-paper semiautos as irreplaceable treasure to be passed down to my angry, violent, freedom-loving descendents. The little bit of money I could get for the semiautos I don't shoot is tiny shit compared to what they'll be worth to my 2-year-old daughter, some day, or her husband, or her as-yet-unborn siblings. Selling unregistered semiautos is a crime against future generations. If you need cash, just whore your ass out on craigslist, but keep your guns, man. Always keep your guns. |
| I've been thinking of doing the same for some time. Thinking of ditching most of my euro-trash guns and some handguns, and getting a really nice precision bolt action with optics. Also get rid of some lower end ARs. Only thing holding me back is it's a buyer's market right now. |
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There will come a time when unregistered semiautomatic rifles will be impossible to acquire legally. That time may come in 5 years or in 50, but I'm not feeling optimistic about it being far off. I sell/trade my Fudd guns without hesitation, but view off-paper semiautos as irreplaceable treasure to be passed down to my angry, violent, freedom-loving descendents. The little bit of money I could get for the semiautos I don't shoot is tiny shit compared to what they'll be worth to my 2-year-old daughter, some day, or her husband, or her as-yet-unborn siblings. Selling unregistered semiautos is a crime against future generations. If you need cash, just whore your ass out on craigslist, but keep your guns, man. Always keep your guns. Truth. Not to mention that whatever guns you have, the SKS will probably outlast them all. |
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I love it when guys I know do this, I literally just bought a gen 3 glock 19c that was less than a year old with under 200 rounds through it yesterday from a guy who's consolidating to only xd's. Gave 90 american dollars for it. Same guy has given me an 870, I've taken a fresh 15/22 and 10 mags for 125, 1956 Ithaca 37 featherweight 12 guage for 50 and a ptr 91 with 150 hk mags for 200. Another guy is like a revolving door with benelli shotguns, he buys them new then does some dumb shit and winds up broke and sells the things for peanuts, then does it again. I would loan the guy money but he doesn't repay, ever, been down that road (bar tabs are more important) so I don't feel too bad taking the deals whether to keep or to flip.
Either way, I would suggest not using this business model my aquainteneces seem to be drawn to unless you have kids that want them. But if your not using them and see no use for them in your future, sell them and buy ammo, mags, roof for the house, sock it away in a interest bearing account, whatever, might as well turn them into something that is useful to you and get those pieces into hands that will run them deservingly hard. |
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if it was me?
i'd try to hang onto them until it becomes more of a sellers market. but this is coming from the guy that hasn't sold a gun in over 5 years just because i don't have to. sure i could sell off a 1/4 of the heard and build up a nice work shop, but i don't really have the time to devote to it at this point in my life with work some day i might just go crazy and do that, or take that vacation i have always thought about. but for right now, i'll keep buying up the deals, in the buyers market, and keep holding them. |
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I had a similar feeling not too long ago.
I don't have tons of guns, but out of what I do have I only really use about 4, maybe 5. Hunting rifles, both shotguns, and a carry pistol. The rest barely get used, but I can't bring myself to sell them because I have backups for others that might need something to hunt with, a few rifles to teach the kids to shoot. Some handguns that aren't practical to carry but are really fun to shoot. |
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There will come a time when unregistered semiautomatic rifles will be impossible to acquire legally. That time may come in 5 years or in 50, but I'm not feeling optimistic about it being far off. I sell/trade my Fudd guns without hesitation, but view off-paper semiautos as irreplaceable treasure to be passed down to my angry, violent, freedom-loving descendents. The little bit of money I could get for the semiautos I don't shoot is tiny shit compared to what they'll be worth to my 2-year-old daughter, some day, or her husband, or her as-yet-unborn siblings. Selling unregistered semiautos is a crime against future generations. If you need cash, just whore your ass out on craigslist, but keep your guns, man. Always keep your guns. Truth. I have a spreadsheet where they are all listed as to how I got them and if they are 4473d or not. The non 4473d ones will never get sold, period. |
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Truth. I have a spreadsheet where they are all listed as to how I got them and if they are 4473d or not. The non 4473d ones will never get sold, period. Quoted:
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There will come a time when unregistered semiautomatic rifles will be impossible to acquire legally. That time may come in 5 years or in 50, but I'm not feeling optimistic about it being far off. I sell/trade my Fudd guns without hesitation, but view off-paper semiautos as irreplaceable treasure to be passed down to my angry, violent, freedom-loving descendents. The little bit of money I could get for the semiautos I don't shoot is tiny shit compared to what they'll be worth to my 2-year-old daughter, some day, or her husband, or her as-yet-unborn siblings. Selling unregistered semiautos is a crime against future generations. If you need cash, just whore your ass out on craigslist, but keep your guns, man. Always keep your guns. Truth. I have a spreadsheet where they are all listed as to how I got them and if they are 4473d or not. The non 4473d ones will never get sold, period. I think I only have 3 guns left that I haven't been 4473'd. Can't even do private sales in NY anymore. 
Last shotgun I bought before the safe act was in a gas station parking lot, can't do that anymore. |
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I hit some financial hard times and had to sell off most of my guns. When I did that I told myself that once that had passed and things had stabilized I would start to buy them back. It was a massive bill that appeared due to my dumb ass insurance company. Sold the ones I had not shot in a long time if ever, then did the ones that did not love and kept the core ones I shot often and really wanted to keep. After things did stabilize, I did have an itch to buy a new gun but I did not replace it with anything even remotely close to what I sold. Over the years my tastes in firearms has changed. Can say I do not miss any of the ones I sold. |
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I've kinda started to have the same sentiments. I recently went through the safe and found 2 rifles right off the bat that I've never shot and have no desire to keep. One was an older Mossberg branded Howa 1500 in .223 and the other is a Winchester Model 100 in .284 Win.
I already dumped the Mossberg, and rather than taking cash I traded for a muzzleloader, which was kinda dumb as I would have rather had the money for ammo or upgrade the optics on one of my other rifles. However, I did come out ahead as the muzzleloader and all the accessories are worth more than the gun I dumped. I might shoot a few rounds through it just for the hell of it, otherwise it will likely go up for sale or trade for some 5.56. I could probably get rid of two or three more, as I really don't see a need for 3 rifles chambered in .30-06. |