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Do we overvalue sentimental value of our guns?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gcan" data-source="post: 1592728" data-attributes="member: 102867"><p>I have always felt as you do about my guns for a couple reasons. They represent many things to me, my passion, who I am and was but also America and our rights. It’s probably true that when you are dead you dont care what happens here. However that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a say in what happens to your stuff right now. </p><p></p><p>I had an experience just like yours but a bit closer to home. I gave one of my sons a pristine Colt Gold Cup out of love. Two weeks later I discovered he’d sold it within days. He bought a glock and something pink for his wife. It wasn’t that he sold the gun. It was his complete indifference to my feelings about it when we spoke that helped me see the light. </p><p>That’s when I changed my will. I don’t care if whoever gets my guns sells them. I do care that the value remains in guns or it provides financially for someone with my passion for guns. So I’m leaving it all, every gun, die, tool, lathe, machine and fixture to my old executive assistant George, and screw the family. They can have the money and fight over the “stuff”. He may sell guns but it will be to buy more or to support the passion, not to put the latest fad glass tile in the kitchen or go to Disney. </p><p>So for me, I don’t care that I won’t care after I’m dead. I care right now. And I’d rather have a friend remember me every time he holds one of my guns than risk my family associating me with the new curtains in the family room. And yes, they are all really p-ssed at me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gcan, post: 1592728, member: 102867"] I have always felt as you do about my guns for a couple reasons. They represent many things to me, my passion, who I am and was but also America and our rights. It’s probably true that when you are dead you dont care what happens here. However that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a say in what happens to your stuff right now. I had an experience just like yours but a bit closer to home. I gave one of my sons a pristine Colt Gold Cup out of love. Two weeks later I discovered he’d sold it within days. He bought a glock and something pink for his wife. It wasn’t that he sold the gun. It was his complete indifference to my feelings about it when we spoke that helped me see the light. That’s when I changed my will. I don’t care if whoever gets my guns sells them. I do care that the value remains in guns or it provides financially for someone with my passion for guns. So I’m leaving it all, every gun, die, tool, lathe, machine and fixture to my old executive assistant George, and screw the family. They can have the money and fight over the “stuff”. He may sell guns but it will be to buy more or to support the passion, not to put the latest fad glass tile in the kitchen or go to Disney. So for me, I don’t care that I won’t care after I’m dead. I care right now. And I’d rather have a friend remember me every time he holds one of my guns than risk my family associating me with the new curtains in the family room. And yes, they are all really p-ssed at me. [/QUOTE]
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