I'm 30. I don't really have a collection per se. A handful of basic self defense guns, a muzzle loader i built myself, and a muzzle loader a very close family friend gave me.
There is no greater honor than an elderly friend showing up, out of the blue, at your door with a muzzle loader that he had built and saying "I want you to have this, I know you'll appreciate it." This same friend gave me some tools, a powder horn and other muzzle loading items because his children never had any interest, and i had been picking his brain for years.
If you're going to give your guns away, give them away while you're still alive. Honor your friends and relatives with gifts. Getting something after someone is deceased is nice, but when someone gives you something before they won't ever use it is a great honor.
I plan on giving my firearms to my son, if he's interested in them, not the monetary value they hold. Or, if not him, any friends or relatives who are interested.
A lot of you guys are looking at your collections as investments, with high dollar 1911s, gold plated special edition firearms etc. So that definitly changes what you're going to do with them. Right now, everything i own is utilitarian. So they'll be gifted. Now if i start collecting, then i'll probably liquidate things in 30 years or so, provided i'm still allowed to own them.
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