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A "what if" and "what would you do"
milsurper
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Say you stop at a garage sale, A little old lady is selling her wares, and you are looking around and don't see any guns, she ask "can I help you", you reply " just looking around, I collect guns and I guess there isn't any". Then she say's "my hubert had a few, he died a few months back, and I don't know what they are or worth". Then goes and gets three guns, A 1911 45, a M1 Garand, and what you know as a full auto WW2 gun. Ok, the questions......
1.Would you offer her a reasonable price for the first two, the tell her what the other one is and warn her, and advise her to turn it in.
2. Offer very little for all of them.
3. Offer a reasonable price for all of them, and say nothing about the full auto.
Hypothetical, but, it could happen.
1.Would you offer her a reasonable price for the first two, the tell her what the other one is and warn her, and advise her to turn it in.
2. Offer very little for all of them.
3. Offer a reasonable price for all of them, and say nothing about the full auto.
Hypothetical, but, it could happen.
Comments
For anything usefull.. =o) I love such little markets, as it's fun to see what is laying around.
I don't know what I'd do, but would probably make a fair deal if possible and I wouldn't get my bum in trouble.
stuff but a nice 15 piece collection. His name was Bill,
also.
I'm going to buy seven of them.
I'm offering a reasonable price for all of them.
If there were no chores, I'd ask to see the 1911, slap a full mag in, rack, and plug her...make it look like a commie pinko, lefty liberal did it...and the guns would all be mine, mine I tell you! Mine!...[;)]
make it look like a commie pinko, lefty liberal did it...
Well, everybody knows lefty liberals are skeerd of guns so hows that gonna shake out in the news media[?][}:)][:D]
MT ya think this poor planning, or lack of good planning, may be why I passed on a life of crime?...[:D]
PJ
MT uh, erh,...you might have a point. Note to self:...forget killing the old lady, just * her on the head with the butt of the Garand...[;)]
Are you SURE you want to * her ???
[:0]
I met an old guy at my neighborhood pool a couple years ago and we started talking about guns. He primarily collected black powder weapons but he told me about how he bought an M-1 Carbine from his brother in law about twenty years ago and when he looked at it realized it was a selective fire weapon. He said he's kept it hidden ever since. I've been keeping track of the old guy, wondering if i should ever bring the subject up again.
If you do like I did you'll sleep VERY good at night like I do. I bought a 50 gun lot and blue booked the whole damn thing for her. Then I made an offer and SHE lowered the price, subsequently I wound up with a real nice collection including a thompson and the holiest of holy's in the Python world..A guess at which Python??
PJ
My quess would have to be a 3" Python!
Back to the original post...I have run into this a few times(except the machine gun) and made a fair deal to get the person top dollar for everything except what I want for myself and use that as payment(and sometimes pay a little more out of pocket if it's something really valuable.)
hugh Heck, bring it up when you see him...if he is worried to death about having it, offer him a fair price to alleviate him of his worry...shoot, he may be so grateful/relieved...that he may make you a heck of a deal...better you than some nut that may turn it in to be ground into scrap when he's gone...[;)]
Explain to her that to buy that WWII piece, yer gonna have to pay an extra $800 classIII tax, Maybe she won't mind cut' ya a deal.
No can do, unless of course it happened to be registered back in the day, and being the owner died I don't know how that would even turn out now. If it wasn't registered before 1986, no amount of money will register it.
Back to topic, I would make her as reasonable of offer as I could on her collection. If I couldn't afford to offer close to what they were worth, I'd tell her that and before leaving give her my opinion of their value and what she had.
hello atf, for the record I am totally unarmed, I have no guns whatsoever, please dont hurt me
MT uh, erh,...you might have a point. Note to self:...forget killing the old lady, just * her on the head with the butt of the Garand...
MT ya think this poor planning, or lack of good planning, may be why I passed on a life of crime?...
Could be you passed on a life of crime 'cause yo momma raised you right.[:D][:D]
...probably 99.9% of the people around here, would treat the situation in a fair way for both parties, all kidding aside. Maybe there is hope for mankind, but then again...[:D]
MT quote:Could be you passed on a life of crime 'cause yo momma raised you right.
...[:D][:D], you may be on to something, God rest my mommas soul. When I did something wrong,...I had to go cut my own switch...if I cut one I liked...usually had to get another...[:0]
...About 3' long, and probably 1/16" on the buisness end...she could make a green switch "sing" on these little skinny bare legs, no worse for wear...[;)]
Not a ATF sting, just a Ethical question I thought, what would I do. And then, would someone else do something different.
That was my attempt at humor, see I figured this elaborate little web that this little old lady weaved to entrap a passer by who just by chance happened to ask about guns and then she would spring a automatic weapon into the hands of a unsuspecting rube and then have him arrested for possessing it.....................well never mind. Hey did you all know its Mental health day only a couple of hours of shopping left.
Never know when it could come in handy in these troubled times....[B)]