I like guns.

[Doc]

Now if I would have just anticipated the recent idiocy with AR's then I would have bought a ton and flipped them. $500.00 plus profit on each gun would have made a nice retirement package.

Step back, see the bigger picture.

You could and still would make a much better return on .22LR ammo which is now actually selling for $.09 to $.15 each. Yes, there is a licensing issue. I have ammo in the basement that was priced from K-Mart at about 1/2 cent a round... it goes back quite a few years, but, talk about price increases!

But... with no such licensing, how about the full carton of P-Mags that I owned and sold, one-at-a-time, for $75 each on GunBroker? You can again get about $12 for them today. There's your return on investment with no strings attached. I try to be moral in everything I do, so I threw $60 for each one sold to Youth Shooting programs. I slept well at night after doing this- I charged a flat-rate for shipping any quantity they wanted at $75 each (for Gen 1 type magazines). Who was I to judge? I ran out of magazines to sell long before the spot price crept below that $75 high.

As the dust settled from the last-big-thing, I dragged out my collection and the cardboard boxes with accessories and printed sales brochures for guns such as a Colt 6520 (a2), SpAS12, Mossberg 88, Enforcer M1 Pistol, AR15 pistol (Olympic Arms Serial Number #2 no less), an UZI .45 Pistol (not the run of the mill 9mm), and numerous other EVIL black colored weapons that had been featured in video games. They sold for stupid money on GunBroker. I made nowhere near the return on investment than I did on the P-Mags, but my wife finally got to dive the Red Sea with me. A perfectly legal selling-off of a personal collection. (or is it better referred to as "an accumulation"?)

Look for a low cost item that is sure to appreciate. Magazines will always be the likely item.

Do not fret that the US Dollar will replaced by Chinese money. The coin of the realm will be lead, parceled out at 185 grains at a time.

Here is one I did not sell. I think it's a wretched excuse for a sidearm, but anybody know why I hung on to it?



And another odd creature, ever seen one of these?



Or.....




I like odd orphans, scan the list in your Blue Book of Gun Values under "acknowledgements" for the mad rocket scientist.

 

[adurso]

Well, at a glance, I would guess the firearms marked "property of US Air Force" were not sold because they belong to the government, as marked, so they are stolen....

I had ordered a bunch of Pmags just before the craziness hit, just because they were on sale, and flipped some for $75 each; just got a bunch more from Primary Arms at 9.99

I did go to a gun show with an AR in a case on my back and stood in the parking lot taking offers until some guy waved stupid cash at me.

 

[letterboy]

Stupid people always have the most money...

 

[gypsyjim]

Stupid people always have the most money...

although not always for very long

 

[PeterNBiddle]

Here is one I did not sell. I think it's a wretched excuse for a sidearm, but anybody know why I hung on to it? http://s221.photobucket.com/user/Doc_Adelman/media/Gattery/IMG_3282.jpg.html

The white lettering is unusual...

 

[BRT]

Don't care? Hardly. The minute they feel like making a headline, your ass could be in a sling whether you were doing something illegal or not. And they don't need any law. They can make something up on a whim.

---------- Post added October 26th, 2013 at 05:29 AM ----------
I realize that if they want me they can get me. I'm not so stupid that I believe there is still a constitution or anything. I just wondered if there were any actual federal laws regulating private or public ammo sales.

If they do come for me they will need several blankets to photograph the nasty weapons and my ammo cache that could only have been for illicit purposes.

 

[Mike]

There is no Federal law against general sale of general ammo, this is still America, at least to some degree.

There are regulations about specific types of ammo such as armor piercing, tracers, things like that, and there are fed regs in regard to who can and can't buy it based on age, fugitive from justice etc...

But if you don't fall into any of that and your buyer doesn't you can sell the hell out of as much ammo as you want based on Fed regs. Now state regs are a different story. Dependig on the state you live in you may be free to do as you please or extremely restricted, you must check your states laws.

As for firearms they are more restrictive than ammo, but again this is still America, to some degree. There are fed laws about mailing firearms and selling across state borders and such and of course regs about automatic weapons and such, but for the most part you can sell the hell out of firearms all you want as long as you don't violate the few fed regs there are and both buyer and seller qualify legally. Again, state wise this is a completely different thing, states have mucked up the rules so much, you better know your state regs, just the ridiculous magazine restrictions passed in the communist states of Ca, NY and NJ are enough to make you do a double take if you're still in the US or not.

I know of no limits on quantities of ammo or quantities of firearms you can sell in accord to federal regs.

 

[adurso]

There is no Federal law against general sale of general ammo, this is still America, at least to some degree.

There are regulations about specific types of ammo such as armor piercing, tracers, things like that, and there are fed regs in regard to who can and can't buy it based on age, fugitive from justice etc...

But if you don't fall into any of that and your buyer doesn't you can sell the hell out of as much ammo as you want based on Fed regs. Now state regs are a different story. Dependig on the state you live in you may be free to do as you please or extremely restricted, you must check your states laws.

As for firearms they are more restrictive than ammo, but again this is still America, to some degree. There are fed laws about mailing firearms and selling across state borders and such and of course regs about automatic weapons and such, but for the most part you can sell the hell out of firearms all you want as long as you don't violate the few fed regs there are and both buyer and seller qualify legally. Again, state wise this is a completely different thing, states have mucked up the rules so much, you better know your state regs.

I know of no limits on quantities of ammo or quantities of firearms you can sell in accord to federal regs.

The quantities of firearms sold is a subjective number.

If it appears that firearms sales are the primary purpose of recent purchases BATF will drop a Strawman charge on said person, because a FFL is required for that.

 

[Mike]

What are you referring to in regard to an FFL? An FFL is only a federal required for the transfer of firearms from state to state. There are plenty of states in the US where two residents of the same state can meet in a parking lot and sell as many guns as they want to each other with no reciepts no paperwork, no nothing.

Up until July of 2013, I could have sold another Colorado resident as many firearms and as much ammo as I wanted with nothing but a handshake and a passing of cash between us as long as I was under the belief the buyer was a legitimate law abiding Colorado state citizen.

This changed in July, but we've already tossed out 2 of the democrats from office with a recall effort and are working on the 3rd and hopefully by next year the restrictive legislation that now requires a background check for a private firearm sale will be over turned.

 

[Hockeynut]

What are you referring to in regard to an FFL? An FFL is only a federal required for the transfer of firearms from state to state. There are plenty of states in the US where two residents of the same state can meet in a parking lot and sell as many guns as they want to each other with no reciepts no paperwork, no nothing.

Up until July of 2013, I could have sold another Colorado resident as many firearms and as much ammo as I wanted with nothing but a handshake and a passing of cash between us as long as I was under the belief the buyer was a legitimate law abiding Colorado state citizen.

This changed in July, but we've already tossed out 2 of the democrats from office with a recall effort and are working on the 3rd and hopefully by next year the restrictive legislation that now requires a background check for a private firearm sale will be over turned.

Technically you might be right, but I think the point everyone is trying to make is, regardless of what is legal and not legal, if you do what you describe and they know, your ass is going to sit in jail while they show pictures of "as many firearms and as much ammo as you want"and talk about how there was a terrorist plot that you and the other Colorado resident were cooking up, and if enough people come forward with evidence saying the fed is full of ****, suddenly all your computers that they would have already seized will be loaded with child porn.