Have you sold a gun for charitable reasons?

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I've only sold a handful of firearms over the years to private parties, with full disclosure of why I was selling it.

A post by Bikerdoc in another thread was referencing him selling a gun for well below value to help out a little old lady.

I sold an M&P40c to a friend who needed a handgun for self-defense but couldn't afford the full purchase price, so I sold it on a payment plan over a few months as he could spare the cash. Sold the gun for a fair price and threw in a nice holster, spare mags, and a couple of boxes of ammo. Then took him out and gave him a range session on how to safely operate his new pistol.

It felt good to help out someone in need.

I'm sure others here have sold or gifted firearms to help out a fellow human being.

Share your stories!
 
I had mixed feelings about giving my niece a gun for a wedding present. At least I could find something new. Looked at the new guns, didn't much like any of them.

Still, though, wouldn't she prefer something frilly? Or China? Or crystal?

A few days before I decided, I visited her. She had two black labs. Being a veterinarian, she has a particular affinity for large dogs.

As it was feeding time, she called them. "Come here, Smith. Come get your dinner, Wesson."

I gave her a K-22 made in 1962. The boy she married loves hunting, guns, shooting, tries hard, but he'll never shoot as well as the trained surgeon he married.
 
I sold a large portion off my gun collection, my dad got hurt and broke his neck and shoulded. The VA was great, but since he was working out of state in nj. Nj did not want to pay anything. So I sold guns, sum that are very hard to find and rare. I took 6 years to settle in court, and the amount he got was a joke. I have given a few guns to friends when they started to hunt.
 
I went in 50/50 with my dad on a new pistol that we raffled off for a friend with Stage 4. He was also a gunsmith, husband, and father. The upside was that his finances were pretty squared away and, with the proceeds from that raffle and a rifle dad sold, our friend was able to take one more hunt with his brother before he passed away. If I could do it over again I would have sold off a few of my own for him as well.
 
I have a co-worker who said that she didn't like walking out to her car after work without a gun. She also said that she didn't like auto-loaders
I had one last Ruby .38 special revolver (clones of the S&W Model 10) that I had bought for my sisters, years ago.
My youngest sister had moved up to a Security Six and returned the Ruby to me.
I passed it on to my co-worker for what I paid for it - fifty bucks.
 
LoonWulf said:
I wouldn't call them charitable donations, but Ill often give away guns I don't use, or sell stuff to friends cheaply.
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Same for me. I have given guns as birthday gifts, Christmas gifts or just because gifts. More than a few sweetheart deals to friends and family as well.

I have also purchased a few to help out a friend, sometimes I come out ok, more often I have lost on the deal.
 
Have you sold a gun for charitable reasons?


Yep, I have though not much.

Interestingly, I've bought more for charity than I’ve sold for it. I’ve bought guns from friends in hard finical times, put said gun in the safe and never shot it only to sale it back to the original owner for the same price, and I’ve done that more than once. Have also bought some guns I didn’t really want in similar circumstances to, sold a couple when I was in hardship myself.
 
@DeepSouth jogged my memory.
My nephew struggled with some demons after he got out of the USMC. He needed to sell a Marlin 336 Texan that his dad had given him. It was a good rifle but had a cracked stock from a horse wreck.
I bought the rifle for his asking price before he went back to Iraq for tour #2. While he was gone, I fixed the stock. When he got back, I gave it back to him. He still has it, and works on a ranch in Mt.
 
I have put a gun up for a charity auction. It was a JM 1895CB NIB. It went for twice it’s value at the time. I like charity auctions because items get bid up past their value. I like that as opposed to just selling one myself and getting only what it is worth.

I don’t write that off for taxes either.
 
I once worked with a young man that really wanted to go deer hunting, not just for the sake of the hunt, but to put meat in the family freezer. He was not making a very high hourly wage but took all the overtime he could get. He had a wife and two young children. He had gotten his Hunter Safety card butt had very little hunting experience, but in everything he did, he would read everything and gather as much advice as possible. I sold him an old Marlin 30-30 lever action with a 4X scope, for a reasonable price, went with him out to the eastern grass lands, and worked with him a little on marksmanship. He paid it off before big game season, and brought home a good size mule deer doe from a DIY hunt in North Western Colorado. The gun didn't have any sentimental value, it was just something I picked up at a gun show just because I like lever guns, although it was the rifle that I had killed my first Colorado mule deer buck after moving here from Wisconsin. I haven't seen him in years, job changes and time made us loose track. He may still have that rifle, or hopefully he has been able to upgrade to something a bit more suitable for Colorado big game.
 
Yes, not one, but five.

A few years ago I came under the conviction that my guns had become idols in my life. I picked out five of them, assigned each one to a different missions/charitable institution, and then placed them on consignment. As each one sold I then donated the proceeds to the assigned organization. Each one sold for top dollar,

Very liberating.
 
Years ago I had a young deputy I worked with that was saving his money for a back up/off duty piece. He came down with the instant money grab. Twins. I wanted to gift him either a J frame Smith or Walther PPK (I had 2) but he refused. So I worked out a plan where I would let him have the pistol and he would pay me $20 a month for a year. Who could refuse a shiny stainless PPK on those terms?
So every payday I had an envelope in my in box. After seven months I sent him an E Mail saying he had paid in full. Merry Christmas. Didn't know his wife's parents raised hogs. Had a ten pound smoked ham delivered to my door Christmas Eve.
 
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