Calgun member passed,family needs advice on his guns

[Davis]

A fellow Calgunner ..Walzy age 28 , passed away yesterday from a sudden illness
He has quite a collection of firearms.His parents and wife need some info on how they proceed with transferring and splitting up his collection.

Any info would be helpful.
Thanks

[USN CHIEF]

Man sorry to hear that he passed away, my prayers will go to him and his family.

Do the parents and wife want to get rid of the guns or keep them?

[FEDUPWBS]

PM sent

[bwiese]

I am sorry for your loss.
Looks like FedupwBs is getting in touch, but feel free to PM me if any questions.

[yellowfin]

Keep all of them in the family to keep the tradition going. Destroying your heritage isn't worth any amount of money.

[sorensen440]

sorry to hear about your loss
Are they looking to keep or sell?

[RRangel]

My condolences to his family. I know it's hard. Maybe you can convince them to be more specific, or even post what aspects about those firearms they have questions with.

[CCWFacts]

I have a somewhat similar situation coming up. Not a death, but a friend's father is moving into assisted living and he asked me (the one person he knows he trusts to do this) to handle his father's extensive collection.

I'm going to make a detailed catalog with photos and serial numbers of the whole thing, to record everything. Then I'll evaluate them as best I can, and see what the selling options are.

I expect there will be some good pieces in there, and also some pieces of no particular value.

I've told my friend that he and his brother should pick out 2-3 pieces each that are going to have value for them for all their lives, and that they can leave to their children.

Then, the others need to be liquidating for cash. It's necessary.

Any suggestions on this?

My sub-question: I assume he's going to have a bunch of < $100 value pieces. It's not worth the money for DROS and shipping and hassle to even deal with these at all. What to do with them?

[Fantasma]

If he has a son, give them to him. If the son is young tell the mom to keep them and give them to the son when he is older. Thats the best present a son can receive to remember his dad.

[scottj]

"My sub-question: I assume he's going to have a bunch of < $100 value pieces. It's not worth the money for DROS and shipping and hassle to even deal with these at all. What to do with them?"

A friend of mine's neighbor wanted to get rid of some really old crappy revolvers and tail end of WWII pre-CZ-52. Basically we went to a Cow Palace gun show and he was able to sell most of them to dealers with no paper work. He got very little for some of the revolvers, maybe $25, and others he couldn't sell. I can't remember how much he sold the pre-CZ-52 for. I could never figure out how the dealers were planning on handling the lack of paper work.

[Dirtbiker]

If most of his collection is C&R is shouldnt be much of a problem. Maybe someone in the family can run them through gunbroker or the like.

[1911su16b870]

My condolences to you and Walzy's family. Its very difficult after a loved one leaves. Try to keep the firearms in the family by treating family members to a few range trips. Hopefully they'll enjoy the sport as much as Walzy did and he'ld like that. If the estate wants to cash out, list them in the for sale section with Walzy estate sale in the thread.

[tiki]

Wait on the ones that aren't worth much for the next gun turn in. They can turn them all in one at a time for some Best Buy gift certificates.

[Two Shots]

Codolences to you and the Family for this loss.

[brassburnz]

Sorry to hear about Walzy. Hopefully the family will keep his collection intact. Although my kids are still young, they know which part of my collection has sentimental as well as monetary value. I guess it's never too early to start thinking about these things.