Hey WPSN community,

Just wanted to get your thoughts/practices for if you keep guns that you don't especially care for. My girl and I are considering a big move, SC to AK, ID, MT, something like that. I have amassed more guns than I can really shoot, and some that I just don't care for all that much. That being said, I will often sell a gun and 3-24 months later say "man, I wish I didn't sell X".

Is this something you folks do, or am I just being a pain in my own butt by keeping all the guns I don't like?

I sometimes justify it by thinking "well if things get ugly then I'll have some good trading tools" but the reality of moving in to a super tiny house or something and having a ton of stuff I don't use seems cumbersome.

These are not high-dollar guns in general, so the return $ is probably less significant than the space gained.

I def have some guns I don't particularly care for... however, I will pretty much only sell to family any more. Not saying this is the correct way to think about it, but its the way I think about it: Guns (even the cheap ones) are an investment and I just don't want to sell them to non-relatives unless I REALLY have to.

Also... your third entry about things getting ugly... I too think that way.

I tend to align with Matt. I’ll say that I have sold many in the past but within the last three years or so I’ve put more thought into purchases and now only have guns that I couldn’t see myself parting with. I see a lot of folks spend outside of their means on guns. If I buy what I can truly afford and choose my purchases carefully, I see no need to sell. Especially in this gun climate.

I've sold a few, but only to friends or family. However, i haven't sold anything since obama.

I wish that I never sold every one that I sold!👀🤔🤣but times get hard for some and have no choice to sell😧😭

I went ~30 years without being a gun owner. Essentially when I went to college (gun-free zone), I left them with family. Of those I got one that was supposed to be mine back, and that only relatively recently. No plans to sell any I have acquired, but I need to acquire a bigger safe soon.

Never saw the need to own for years. Then ended up taking care of in-laws with health issues and father-in-law was a prohibited person. Then when my Grandmother passed away we had a range day in mid-2020 at my Uncle's Ranch that has the family plots. I cam home in late 2020 determined to start acquiring firearms. If first acquired a Henry 30-30. Then won a LaRue Tactical MBT-2S trigger from a YouTuber's contest. I built a problem child AR. Then was given a few more from family.

I've downsized to guns that I strongly like, or have some meaning to me. I've had several that were impulsive purchases, or a duplication of something I already have, of better quality, and those have moved on. Life's too short to dust boring guns (or anything else). I try my best to adhere to a one in, one out rule, but that doesn't really work. Life is simpler if you like what you have. You also spend less time coveting other firearms when your stuff is just as nice.

Another rule I try to follow is limiting excess "mouths to feed". I have .22LR, 9 mm, .40 S&W for pistols and 5.56. 300 BLK, and 7.62 for rifle. Oh and 12 Ga for my shottys. Other than that, I am thinking hard on a lever action caliber, which will probably be 30-30, or .45-70 Govt.

It's a planned addition. I really have my eye on one of their color case-hardened rifles.

I admit that I sold a couple in my early years, one was a Ruger Blackhawk single action .357 stainless and the other was a Remington 7600 pump 30-06. I don't miss the Remington (I still have another which stays hidden away in the safe), but I dearly miss the Ruger and wish that I had never sold it. That was over 30 years ago and haven't sold a firearm since...although I have to admit, I have a Keltec Sub 2000 that I really don't care for and am considering selling...we shall see. Other than that, I pretty much don't intend to sell anything that I currently possess, especially in today's gun climate.