Let's see your safe!

[sahls01gmc]

Girlfriends dad has a legit bank safe for his guns lol. Weighs like 4000 pounds lol

 

 

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Let me guess, you were introduced to that before you were allowed to go on your first date with his daughter?!?

[Mckenzie]

Let me guess, you were introduced to that before you were allowed to go on your first date with his daughter?!?

I've been with her for 7 months, he just got the safe an I saw it about a week latter ! He's a real easy going likable guy thank goodness [emoji119] No use of guns for intimidation yet !

 

 

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[BlackZ71Silverado]

There's some serious firepower!

 

How long did it take you to get that collection?

Started when I was 12, the first year I was able to hunt. I'm 32 now so it took quite a while. It seems to grow every year.

I would put money aside from my job and go with my father to purchase 1 rifle or shotgun a year, that was my limit. When I turned legal age to purchase a firearm on my own, it started getting serious.

 

I have a pistol safe as well, it's just not pictured.

 

Firearms can be an investment. One of the few items you can buy and sell for the same price or more years later.

 

 

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[Spurshot]

Just a different perspective on firearms as an investment...since it was mentioned in this thread.

 

I'm 59. Got my first gun at 6 in Montana. I've been buying and selling ever since I was 18. I've had a Manufacturing FFL as well as a C&R FFL. I used to think they were investments. Now that I've dispersed a few widow's gun collections myself, watched friends do it, and seen many collections bought by dealers & auction houses, I think they're a burden to a widow and frankly everyone else except professional dealers who make a good living dispensing of them.

 

Generally, 50 cents on the dollar of retail market is about where I've seen it average. Sometimes less. I know a lot of old guys with collections of rare guns that cost hundreds of thousands in total. As I've watched some of them pass away and other friends help the widows, it became obvious guns are rarely an investment and more often than not, a large burden and drain on the financial resources of the family. I've seen obsession of guns take away from the money available for higher standard of living for the family. Illusions of large gains by men for their wives when the time comes, even of rare collectable guns, are dwindled by surviving families lack of knowing the small circles of people that would buy the ones that really did appreciate many thousands of dollars, and having to rely on middle men who took any profits to be had. Illusions of passing on a collection to an offspring more often than not reveals that the father had a inaccurate view of the kid's interests.

 

Modern guns that can acquired anywhere, just don't move unless they are the lowest priced (for the type they are) on the market. The internet sites are full of guns that are listed for years without selling.

 

Buy your guns because you like them. Sell them when you loose interest in them. Bank the money for your family. Don't leave your family to clean up your accumulation after you die.

 

If you want an investment, speak to a real financial advisor. I will guarantee he won't advise guns as an investment.