I hate it ! I hate it ! I hate it ! Never again will i sell a gun. I ordered a Wilson Combat last year and mid way [ 5 months] into my W.C. order we put our house up for sale and moving back to N.Y. I had a Wilson Combat spec ops-9 mm-double stack mag-holds 18 rounds. New York law -can't have more then 8 rounds. I went to order 8 or 9 round mags. Found out W.C. doesn't make them for the 1911 spec ops gun. OMG -what do i do now ? After talking to W.C. i had to get the X-tac-45. Thats was $700 more. I had to put some guns up for sale. How can you do that ? That's like selling one of your kids. I had to lay all my guns out and pick.
NEVER AGAIN.........

I am sure WC was happy to sell you another gun... But why not permanently modify the magazines in the 9mm Spec Ops so they can only hold the required limit under NY law?

Larry

I hate it, too. Sometimes there's no choice. I spent some time in the
hospital, and now I'm back down to one gun. It's enough for me.
Rent's got to come first. I need my at&t uverse, also.

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Saw that my safe was too full.
Sold my least favorites.
Stung at first, but feels good now

Kimber 84M in .257 Roberts:



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1958 Model 12 Riot:

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I guess I'm different? Mine are simply possessions.

I don't get that attached to any thing in my life.

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Just got rid of a bunch of N frames here.............no big deal! Just collecting dust here. Moving on to other firearms.

move -em on in then move -em on out somtime ya just need a different model to make ya happy

I think I want to move out of New Jersey and into your home in Delaware!

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I looked into that but didn't know how to modify and was it legal for N.Y. laws ? If the mags was single maybe but double stack?
I like shooting 9 mm but it's done now.
Who want a $600.000 home in Delaware for $399.000? LOL
Guns go with the house......

On TWO separate occasions I have sold guns. The second time my entire handgun collection was sold off. It really Stinks! but guns come and go family and our other obligations to our families come first.

Put a wood plug inside the magazine so it only holds the required amount, the same way shotgun hunters do in states that only allow 2-3 rounds.

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At some point, you end up having more guns than you can use or enjoy.

Selling is still a huge PITA. But a necessary evil of maintaining any collection.

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I would not rely on this.
Downside is too big.

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If everybody felt about money the way some people feel about guns . . .
Nobody would ever buy anything.

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Agreed. There are even companies that specialize in drop in kits for mag mods now.

That said, I never sell a gun in haste but rarely regret selling one once I do. Guns are not like Wives. You are not married to them. You keep them as long as you love them and trade them off for new ones when you don't.

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''You keep them as long as you love them.''.
WOW !!! If your married -hope your wife doesn't read that.
My wife would cut two of them off when i'm sleeping if i said that.. But it's so true !!!!

You are right about that. I have so many guns that i don't go to the range like i use to when i had only one gun. I have to buy 22-38-9mm-357-44-45 auto-308-226 ammo. I don't have any money and when i have a extra $100 -i buy more ammo. I should use that money for range time.
I thank you for that.. You are a wise man or woman..

Hi:
A few years ago when my medical insurance was being max out due to "Chemo" I sold most of my firearms here on the Forum "Classifieds".
P.S. I didn't go "Bald" but my eye sight, hearing, and teeth went "Belly Up".
Jimmy

Does this mean you'll be changing your user name here on the forum?

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We were just talking about retired people that are selling there guns due to medical ins. went up this year. I was at my LGS this morn. and there were 3 guys selling their guns and i ask why? That is what they all said.. Med. ins. is to much. Have you looked on this Forum ? -----Guns For Sale----- Every day more and more and just not one gun per person.
3 or 4 guns.

Being a gun-collector since the age of 9, I've owned well over 100 guns.

Got it pretty much pared-down to what will easily now fit into 4 smallish gun safes.
Which is still way too much since many are (nearly) duplicates of one another, and there are only about 5 guns that I shoot with any regularity.

There are only two guns I truly regretted selling.

One was my "first gun."
Just a simple Daisy BB gun. I even sold it to a kid I disliked. At the time, I thought I was the "winner" in that deal, because I thought of the Daisy as being "weak," and I'd just gotten a Crosman 760 that would just about shoot clean through a squirrel.



Thank goodness for Gunbroker. I eventually found a replacement that was as closely configured as I could remember my "first" gun. Seals were perished on it, so I had to send it out to be re-sealed. Usual thing with the gunsmith who kept it forever, and didn't communicate. I eventually got it back, and the gunsmith had done a good job on the seals. But honestly, I think I've shot it only twice in the ten years since I've had it.

I must have shot the original one 100,000 times in the basement of my parents' house. I can remember my dad watching Walter Cronkite while I relentlessly blasted at boxes on the other side of the basement.

The seals on that 760 are long-perished now too.

Its just not the same now.

What's even more a shame is I can't remember whether my old Daisy was a Model 95 or a Model 96. They are much alike as far as appearance and features. I think my old Daisy might have actually been a 95. The "replacement" is a Model 96. Studying Google Images just leaves me more confused.



Then there was the Model 57.
I bought that from an estate because the price was right, but I just did not want another big N-Frame that I knew I wouldn't shoot. So, I hastily sold it to a friend for less money than I should have asked. I guess I figured if I got rid of that .41 Magnum quickly, I wouldn't develop an "attachment" to it. That one just gnawed at me, especially since I knew the friend would just stick it in a drawer, and never take it to the range.

After some years, I made the friend an offer he could not refuse to get the Model 57 back. I was quite pleased to get it back. It sits in a box... in a safe... in the basement alongside the Model 29-2. I've yet to fire the Model 57, and its been over a decade since I fired the 29-2!



I'm sure the big ol' "horse pistols" will bring some good coin when I finally let them go. I know I'll have to do it before too long.

The Daisy will be a sadder parting. It has little value on the "open market," and my family just isn't interested in my nostalgia.

All those other guns I "got rid of" through the years, I just can't say I miss them much. Good riddance to many of them I say. The CZ-52 that was like a hair-trigger steel trap when field-stripping, the Ruger P95DC with smudgy blue finish. Even the shotgun my daddy bought me, the bolt-action Mossberg 20 gauge with twisty-choke. Really. I don't miss those guns, and others of similar ilk.

I gave away my "off-duty" gun to a nephew by marriage. He's a fine young man, even if he lives several states away, and my opportunities to even see him, let alone "go shooting" are slim and none. I couldn't just sell that gun to a stranger.

What I really miss is the old times that I spent with a gun in my hand, or in a holster, or in the back of the car. On thing is for sure. I'm not getting those times back. Memories are all they ever will be.

I guess with age, I've just come to terms with the fact that I can only be the caretaker of these things for a short time, and time getting shorter. I know it would grieve me greatest to leave the job of finding new homes for these treasures to somebody who would regard the job as an annoyance and imposition. Some truths are just as inevitable as they are equally likely to be ignored.

*sigh*

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I didn't know that anyone moved back to New York.

I rarely hear of anyone moving BACK to NY.

I answered a phone call last week at the LGS where I work p/t. Nice guy calling from somewhere in upstate NY. Wanted to talk about how he could move here (NC) with his guns, etc. He was fed up with weather and insane anti-gun laws.
I asked him if he owned a hammer. He replied yes. I informed him that moving here with his guns was no different than bringing his hammer as part of the move.
It sounded like he was about to cry he was so happy.

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i trade guns off pretty regularly, but i dont sell the ones i really like.
the 45 is a better choice anyway .youll be okay with it later on i bet.
hopefully you can replace them later if you think you need to.

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I was out of work for almost a year and had to sell almost all of my guns. At first I told myself that I hated it too, but the more I did it, the more I saw the look on the faces of the new owners, the more I realized I was having just as much fun selling them as I ever did buying them. I don't know how many times I heard..."I've been looking for one like this"...Then I'd usually stand around talking to a new friend for some time about guns, cars, the weather, work, and so on.

I realized for me the real enjoyment of owning a gun came not so much from shooting them, or even owning them, as it did from looking for them. Once I found them, and shot them a few times it was on to something else. There was never any real emotional attachment to any of them. They were just things, and could be bought and sold.

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I have never owned a firearm that I wouldn't sell. Some have been tougher than others to part with, but necessity sometimes dictates such action.

I'll never be left gun-less, but as I have been paring down the collection over the past few years I've realized that the attachment wanes once the firearm has gone to a new home.

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My wife want to be close to our first Grandchild

The selling part, i guess it depends on if you have to sell or if you WANT to sell. The HAVE TO sell could be due to job, medical, major repair of the car or house.
The WANT to sell, could be almost fun, selling one you have lost interest in to fund the next purchase.
The only firearm i would not sell is the rifle i got from my father.

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Of these five, the only one left is the one on the bottom.

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Sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to.

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We make it a point to go up every 2 weeks to go see them. My wife doesn't want the baby to forget our face. In the 6 months we been going up [5 hour trip-one way] my car now has 135,000 miles.

I'm relatively new to guns....

I don't understand this statement

As far as that Daisy, why not offer it up for free on the forums here when the time comes to part with it? Mention that the only caveat is that whomever takes it needs to make good use of it... ideally to train a youngster as an introduction to shooting. You'll know it is going to a good home, and you are directly helping a youth enter the shooting sports.

I don't sell guns, never have, never will.
I have kids, daughter and son in laws, and the root'nest, toot'nest bunch of Grandkids that everyone is a shooter, that I've every seen. What guns I don't give them before I kick off, they'll get when I buy the farm. And everything that goes with them.

This is what happens when you raise your children right. They are members of the gun culture and their children become that way also.

Rule 303

Buying a new gun = total joy

Selling a gun = negative joy

Problem is that you let yourself get wayyyyy too attached to them to the point of being unhealthy. Stand back and realize what you're doing man. Quite frankly it's borderline stupid. Do you own them or do they own you. Believe me it might hurt a bit when you sell one-but put it out of your mind and move on. I guarantee you that in a week you will have move on to the next hot thing.
Now your guns...that's a little bit trickier.........

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I don't own any of these anymore:


But I find myself in agreement with many others here, in that they are just things. These things just didn't suit my needs anymore. And they can fulfill a need to a new person, and that is better than sitting unused in my dark safe.

No problems selling or trading. It's just an object, a tool. Some look nicer but tools none the less. I dont get to hung up on looks. Just recently I sold 3 and traded one.

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I hate the actual putting them up for sale. I am not attached to them but sell on line is a hassle, All the pictures, e mails, etc. Then if you sell to a dealer you get ripped off, I am not a gun show guy. Put them on Gun Broker and hope they sell then deal with shipping?

Maybe I should get a FFL, then I can mail them??

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True they are just things. However I research and fondle any one I plan to buy throughly before I purchase it. I have never had to sell a gun because it wasnt as expected. Therefore I have never had to sell a gun nor do I plan to. I buy them with the intent of keeping them. That way I avoid the "hate selling" feeling.

I would get rid of my wife before I would move to a state with restrictive laws like New York. Fortunately, she is happy where she is.

Moving would require both of us to agree on the destination.

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Why not?? I've never seen a metal detector at the cemetery.


Jim in Iowa

I hate selling guns too. As a young man it was quite often necessary to sell one in order to buy my latest interest. Several have been sold due to financial stress. I regretted each and every one.
Its wasn't so much that I was attached to them as it was that I liked them and the situation forced me to sell. But you do what ya gotta do. Like it or not.
Now that I'm older and better off, I don't think there's been a single gun I've sold in the last 20 years that I wasn't glad to be rid of. We all do sometimes make mistakes.

It's been over 6 weeks since i sold my last 4 guns. I paid off my Wilson and have cash in my safe to buy what ever my heart wants. That feels great!! I been looking at this 9 mm and told my LGS store i want the New S&W 9 mm Rev P.C.

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You can't go wrong with that Sig you're looking at - my 226 is in .40:

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Candy to my eyes. What does it say on the side? I see a G -Some guns say Made in Germany.

I just zoomed in .. Your gun says -Made in Germany. Is only the 40 cal made in Germany ? The 9mm doesn't say that.

I have a 1999 vintage P220 .45ACP. It only holds 8 rounds.

I also have a 1980 vintage P220 .38 Super. Note the European Mag release.

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