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Misconceptions about Older Guns

wmg1299

wmg1299

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Part of my business involves settling estates, and I often deal with family members who inherit firearms. For most of my career, family members were happy to have them and often had fond memories of their dad's/grandpa's/uncle's hunting rifle or shotgun. Recently, I'm dealing with more and more family members who not only have no emotional attachment to the firearms, but seem to think that "old" guns without significant collector value aren't worth keeping. There have always been family members who are scared of guns or don't want them in the house with their young children, but I'm running into more and more people who think that inheriting older guns is almost a nuisance. They see an older revolver with some holster wear or scratches the same way they would look at a 1990's Toyota Carolla with faded paint, rather than seeing them as perfectly functional firearms that fire popular cartridges and still have tons of life left in them. Did you guys have these types of misconceptions before you got into shooting, or is this just a millennial thing?
 
I'm not sure if it's a millennial thing or not. With all the new innovations in firearms over the last 15 years maybe younger people look at revolvers and standard rifles the way we look at flintlocks.

Personally I think every firearm needs to be cleaned and restored to proper working condition if necessary. Except Hi-Point semi auto pistols. Those things all need to be thrown to the bottom of the nearest lake. :)
 
Bassbob said:
I'm not sure if it's a millennial thing or not. With all the new innovations in firearms over the last 15 years maybe younger people look at revolvers and standard rifles the way we look at flintlocks.

Personally I think every firearm needs to be cleaned and restored to proper working condition if necessary. Except Hi-Point semi auto pistols. Those things all need to be thrown to the bottom of the nearest lake. :)
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Don't let BET7 hear you talk bad about his most prized Hi-Points begets really sensitive about them.....🤣
 
10mmLife said:
Don't let BET7 hear you talk bad about his most prized Hi-Points begets really sensitive about them.....🤣
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Here's my Hi-Point story.

Shortly after the riots went down in Ferguson ( Which happened literally while I was working in Ferguson) a friend of mine who is a cop was at a gas station about a block away from my company's yard in Berkeley, which is a municipality right next to Ferguson, when a couple of , uh, young, disaffected, urban males tried to ambush him. One of them tried to keep him busy talking to him while the other young "Gangsta" pulled out his Hi-Point, pointed it at my friend's head and pulled the trigger. As a result of Hi Point's incredible reliability/quality, Felonious Thug's pistol jammed or misfired resulting in one Antonio Martin, 18, being dispatched by 3 from my friend's Glock 9mm. This of course sparked another riot and resulted in the highway being shut down by protesters. They set the Quick Trip across the street on fire.

So yeah, my buddy thinks Hi-Points are great. :)
 
Bassbob said:
Here's my Hi-Point story.

Shortly after the riots went down in Ferguson ( Which happened literally while I was working in Ferguson) a friend of mine who is a cop was at a gas station about a block away from my company's yard in Berkeley, which is a municipality right next to Ferguson, when a couple of , uh, young, disaffected, urban males tried to ambush him. One of them tried to keep him busy talking to him while the other young "Gangsta" pulled out his Hi-Point, pointed it at my friend's head and pulled the trigger. As a result of Hi Point's incredible reliability/quality, Felonious Thug's pistol jammed or misfired resulting in one Antonio Martin, 18, being dispatched by 3 from my friend's Glock 9mm. This of course sparked another riot and resulted in the highway being shut down by protesters. They set the Quick Trip across the street on fire.

So yeah, my buddy thinks Hi-Points are great. :)
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Damn man that's quite the story! 😮
 
IMO the millennial's have no interest in revolvers.
What I have seen at the range are millennial's show up with all their AR's and plastic fantastics, thousand rounds of ammo and a bunch of zombie targets and shoot as fast as they can.
They seem to emulate what they learned in the basement playing video games.
 
I think there are a number of factors at play. I think the OP was correct in writing that older, dinged up guns, do seem a "pain" to those left behind. There are regulations to be followed for low value items that in some states are complicated and often require a specialist to get involved and charge a fee which makes the firearm even less valuable in net cash.

Now add the fact that many younger people have zero interest in guns in the first place; many are afraid of guns and want nothing to do with them. For the few who have some interest, revolvers and bolt actions don't even make sense to them given they mostly view guns as self defense tools or range toys.
 
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