What will Gun Collecting be like in 20 years?

[model70hunter]

Per reports the middle class will be gone. It will be like 1880 or forbid 1929.

Folks may have much smaller collections, 1 pistol, shotgun and rifle.

The most collectible will be in basic black.

With the impending artifical intelligence taking off some guy named John Connor may comeback and save us.

 

[walnutred]

Way things are going in 20 years collectors may be allowed to collect firearms related trading cards. But only with a background check.

 

[A-37]

Doomsday

Following an unfavorable Supreme Court interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, permissible collections will include:

S&W mahogany presentation cases

S&W wood grips

S&W Model 52 barrel bushing wrenches

S&W screwdrivers

Jinks letters


Orwell's "1984" is closer than you think.................

 

[GatorFarmer]

Guns are more commonly owned and carried now than they were back in 1995. Laws are in fact less restrictive now than then, as the AWB sunset.

Sbrs and suppressors are also now virtually mainstream.

I do not know about collecting. Collecting anything presupposes disposable income and desire. In terms of availability, I expect more guns, not less. More suppressors, and I expect automatic weapons to be more available.

 

[bricker]

I hope my FDE Glock 23 will be worth more.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

20 years from now the collectors will be buying the new guns being sold today.

 

[zelda]

All of Dad's guns will be MINE !!!

 

[David LaPell]

Given that most people I talk to my age and younger seem to know little to nothing of older antique guns, I think as older collectors pass on and families seem to have less of an interest in handing down heirlooms, I will not be surprised that guns that once belonged to "Granddad" and "Uncle Jim" will be turned in when the bills come due or hopes to buy a new I-pad or whatever the tech will be then. At the same time, all politics aside, I think the newer generation now will be more interested in other things. I know hunting is still popular, but the numbers are consistently going down every year at least here in the Northeast. I was in a shop the other day when I guy walked in with his Grandfather's Winchester 1894 .30-30 made in 1897, full length rifle with octagon barrel and Lyman tang sight. An offer was made, the guy didn't bat an eye and his grandfather's rifle was gone. He was thrilled to death in what he got. I see more of that now than you know.

 

[Arik]

Given that most people I talk to my age and younger seem to know little to nothing of older antique guns, I think as older collectors pass on and families seem to have less of an interest in handing down heirlooms, I will not be surprised that guns that once belonged to "Granddad" and "Uncle Jim" will be turned in when the bills come due or hopes to buy a new I-pad or whatever the tech will be then. At the same time, all politics aside, I think the newer generation now will be more interested in other things. I know hunting is still popular, but the numbers are consistently going down every year at least here in the Northeast. I was in a shop the other day when I guy walked in with his Grandfather's Winchester 1894 .30-30 made in 1897, full length rifle with octagon barrel and Lyman tang sight. An offer was made, the guy didn't bat an eye and his grandfather's rifle was gone. He was thrilled to death in what he got. I see more of that now than you know.

I see nothing wrong with selling that rifle. Guy is just not into it. Years ago passing down a rifle was more for practical reasons then anything else. Why waste money on a firearm when we have grandpa's rifle. Eventually it became something else.

Also, not everyone is into old guns. I like some but others I don't. You couldn't pay me to have a lever action or a SAA. I have no interest in them, same with S&W top breaks. On the other hand I do like the M&P ....but not the Colts of the same era

 

[TTSH]

Following an unfavorable Supreme Court interpretation of the 2nd Amendment...

Orwell's "1984" is closer than you think.................

Yeah, I hate to be pessimistic but no matter how you look at it, we are slowly sliding down the path toward judicial "reinterpretation" of 2A (to make it meaningless - much easier than repeal) and banning and ultimately confiscation of all but Nerf guns, and even they will require a costly and hard-to-get license. Just look at the UK and what happened there. Our path will not be all that different. Not a matter of "if"... just a matter of "when."

For better or worse, I probably won't be around 20 years from now. Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

 

[MattNH]

Either just like it is now, except prices up through the roof, or collections stored in hidden rooms or under floor boards and completely black market.

 

[ridewv]

If you look at gun shows now: it is an old-mans' sport. There are few young people that collect anything, much less guns.

"Collecting": putting an arbitrary value to a rare inanimate object is becoming passe'. Collecting "friends" on facebook is in.

I think it will die out by our own omission.

Precisely.

Old gun collectors are dying off while more and more young men aren't even interested in guns, in fact they've been programed since grade school to view them as evil. When they're our age they'll be collecting antique iPhones, etc.

At present our right to own guns is hanging by a thread. As in 5/4 supreme court decisions (50 years ago the same decisions would likely have been 9/0). How many years longer until even owning a firearm becomes a privilege? Then an increasingly difficult to obtain privilege.

Just my opinion.

 

[twobit601]

If I'm alive, I will still have exactly what I have today and probably nothing added unless I add one or two of what is already currently a classic.

 

[BigBoy99]

In 20 years, if the liberals get there way, the only guns will be on picture cards and will be traded just like baseball cards. "I'll trade you a S&W Highway Patrolman card and a Colt M1911A1 card for a Thompson M1928 card!"

 

[the ringo kid]

All of Dad's guns will be MINE !!!

My damned idiot brother--gave away all my dads guns. The only one I wanted was the Winchester eighteen ninety-four. I cant use my numbers keays some reason today?/

At least I and I alone-can control who gets my guns and my brother--gets none of em.

 

[the ringo kid]

Precisely.

Old gun collectors are dying off while more and more young men aren't even interested in guns, in fact they've been programed since grade school to view them as evil. When they're our age they'll be collecting antique iPhones, etc.

At present our right to own guns is hanging by a thread. As in 5/4 supreme court decisions (50 years ago the same decisions would likely have been 9/0). How many years longer until even owning a firearm becomes a privilege? Then an increasingly difficult to obtain privilege.

Just my opinion.

On a related note--some have been trying to entice ginsberg to retire--to be replaced by someone far worse.

 

[Ματθιας]

No more foreign surplus/police firearms, ammo. Either will have dried up will have been legislated away on our side, on the other nation government's side or some UN agreement or embargo.

 

[Irn-Bru]

I think pre-lock Smiths will have doubled, maybe tripled in value 20 years from now. They are slowly but surely drying up on gunbroker. Not half as many listings as there were 4-5 years ago.

 

[357-RevolverGuy]

In 20 years I don't think it'll change much. I feel like since the mid-late 1990s there really hasn't been much innovation in firearms and the pace at which new firearms are coming out is nothing compared to what was happening early in the century all the way up to the 1960s. In this day and age do you think it would be possible to have another Bill Ruger, John Browning, or Samuel Colt? With all the regulations to try and do anything in our country, I doubt it.

 

[wundudnee]

My 16 year old grandson can name every military firearm made. The young man that cleaned an lapped a chamber for me yesterday is 30. My son is 47 and has multiple guns and his own range and teaches many new shooters.

I'm 75 and I'll plead ignorance and apathy of what might happen in 20 years, but there will still be plenty of interest in the shooting sports.

Hey! By then all my favorite safe queens will probably be with new owners.