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Just last week I was working for an older couple an I noticed they had a couple rifle bags leaning up against the wall in the garage. I opened one and found an old coast to coast sales single shot .22 Mostly rusted out, but in the other bag was a VG condition Remington 572 pump action Field Master, also a .22. with a vintage weaver scope.
This thing is clean right, but its starting to deteriorate. The bluing is still 90% intact but it looks like some rust in growing on the butt pad (where it sits on the concrete floor) and the action is stiff. I looked down the bore and it looks like someone fired it back in 1970 and forgot to clean it. So I ask if he would be interested in selling, I checked the barrel date code and its just eligible for cash and carry. He told me that he didnt care, I could have the old things, but they were his wife's. I asked her and she told me she would think about it, that it was her fathers and that she has never fired it, never had any desire to, never taken it out of the bag and almost forgot it was there.
I didnt want to bug her about it, but she didnt give me an answer all week. Finally I ask again, I told her what it was worth, and how much I would give for it. She kinda hemmed and hawed and finally said, well, it was my fathers and I would like to keep it. Okay I say, but if someone doesn't clean it out, oil it etc... it's not gonna be any use to anyone. So she talks to her husband, he tells me the same thing, but he asks me to take it home, fix it, clean it and shoot it and bring it back. So thats what I am doing.
I cant tell you how frustrating it is to see a nice old gun just rusting away without being able to do anything about it. Luckily in this case, I was able to convince them to let me clean it up. Will see if she changes her mind about selling it.
Another thing is, the owner was the right hand man of a certian legendary liberal LA county supervisor in the 70's. He's got pictures of him with all the big name libs from that era, pictures of himself with Jimmy Cater etc... When I was talking to him about selling the gun, he never mentioned an FFL or anything, he was prepared to sell it to me for cash right then and there. Now of course I know the law and understand that in this case, that would be legal, but I didnt have the heart to explain CA's gun laws, or the foul fruit that has been harvested from the poisoned tree of his politics.
I wonder if he would believe me if I told him that he cant sell me an old .22 with going to an FFL running a background check, paying a fine, waiting ten days etc... I wonder if he would be sorry?
This thing is clean right, but its starting to deteriorate. The bluing is still 90% intact but it looks like some rust in growing on the butt pad (where it sits on the concrete floor) and the action is stiff. I looked down the bore and it looks like someone fired it back in 1970 and forgot to clean it. So I ask if he would be interested in selling, I checked the barrel date code and its just eligible for cash and carry. He told me that he didnt care, I could have the old things, but they were his wife's. I asked her and she told me she would think about it, that it was her fathers and that she has never fired it, never had any desire to, never taken it out of the bag and almost forgot it was there.
I didnt want to bug her about it, but she didnt give me an answer all week. Finally I ask again, I told her what it was worth, and how much I would give for it. She kinda hemmed and hawed and finally said, well, it was my fathers and I would like to keep it. Okay I say, but if someone doesn't clean it out, oil it etc... it's not gonna be any use to anyone. So she talks to her husband, he tells me the same thing, but he asks me to take it home, fix it, clean it and shoot it and bring it back. So thats what I am doing.
I cant tell you how frustrating it is to see a nice old gun just rusting away without being able to do anything about it. Luckily in this case, I was able to convince them to let me clean it up. Will see if she changes her mind about selling it.
Another thing is, the owner was the right hand man of a certian legendary liberal LA county supervisor in the 70's. He's got pictures of him with all the big name libs from that era, pictures of himself with Jimmy Cater etc... When I was talking to him about selling the gun, he never mentioned an FFL or anything, he was prepared to sell it to me for cash right then and there. Now of course I know the law and understand that in this case, that would be legal, but I didnt have the heart to explain CA's gun laws, or the foul fruit that has been harvested from the poisoned tree of his politics.
I wonder if he would believe me if I told him that he cant sell me an old .22 with going to an FFL running a background check, paying a fine, waiting ten days etc... I wonder if he would be sorry?
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