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SP45
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What would a firearm that came from Saddam Husains collection be worth above the normal price. I saw a gun, single shot rifle, with the Husain crest in gold leaf on the side of the receiver. I have seen others with the same crest and am confident it is legit. It is engraved with middle eastern style engraving. I value the gun without the crest or engraving at $1,000.00. Just wondering how much this adds to the value. No paperwork with the gun.
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Otherwise as Charlie notes. It just a story. Almost every antique store and gun show, will have similar items for sale. Complete with fanciful unattributed stories. Seeking big bucks based on the story. Rather than the intrinsic value, of the gun itself.
Now I've seen it all. The profanity censor won't allow the use of the term C-I-V-I--L War, and it managed to misspell Aggression, which has two G's (even I knew that). Let's see how long it takes for that to be edited and corrected.
The gun is probably a nice curio, and years down the road it might well be collectible, but I just don't picture there ever being any kind of demand in the country for anything Saddam related...Unless it is a Blu-ray of his hanging.
Dubya used to keep a gold plated AK-47 from the collection in the Oval Office, often showing it to visitors. I'm sure that somewhere there's an inventory list of items seized from Hussein's palaces, but you'd probably have to submit a FOIA request. Unless SP45's rifle is on the list, it's just a rifle.
Neal
Most likely its worth would be worth possibly a trip to prison, or at the very least, a STERN talking to from the State Department, and BATFE.
So, are you willing to speculate that a gun owned by that cowardly rat GIs found hiding in a hole will be worth more in the future? Will relics from the Gulf War appreciate in the same manner as those from the "last good war?" Is a gold-plated, garish AK-47 going to appreciate like a German Luger taken from a captured officer? I'm probably letting my bias show by the way I worded the questions, but those are definitely questions I'd ask myself before making the plunge.
If you have $1K lying around and are willing to speculate, take the leap, tuck the gun in a safe, and wait to see what happens in another 20-30 years. If not, there's plenty out there vying for $1000 that would probably bring a more guaranteed return on investment. For example, now that Ruger has stopped producing their Red Label, prices have already gone up appreciably. And a Red Label would be an investment you could take to the range and occasionally shoot, as opposed to a gold-plated thug gun.
As an aside, in 1977 I had the opportunity to buy a flyable North American B-25 Mitchell bomber for the grand sum of $7,000! We were still in the throes of a gas crisis and I had just graduated from college, so $7K seemed like a fortune at the time. That is one opportunity I'll always regret passing up. If only we could foresee the future, huh?
OK, just my two cents....and probably worth about as much!
If it legal in the US, and within our borders, legally transferrable, then it has value.
How much? Did I miss where you told us the make and model?
My thoughts exactly. I did not buy the gun it is a single shot rifle falling block. Just interesting.Not to discount anything others have already said, but I don't think current price is the real question, at least in my mind. The real question is, what might it be worth in the future. Take, for example, all the Nazi souvenirs vets brought back from Europe after WWII. Ten to twenty years after the war, most of that stuff was still fairly worthless. My neighbor kids used to wear real German helmets when we'd play war and, except for one neighborhood vet who was offended when little Joey wore an SS helmet, no one cared. We beat the daylights out of those relics and no one gave any thought to how we were degrading their future value. However, as those WWII vets aged, began to look back on their accomplishments, or started to pass on, that changed. WWII relics really began to appreciate in value in the 90s. Heck, I was at a gun show this past weekend and a guy had a dozen German helmets for sale, most not as nice as the ones we played with in the 60s, and the cheapest one was selling for $900. A named SS helmet in fairly rough condition sold for $2000.
So, are you willing to speculate that a gun owned by that cowardly rat GIs found hiding in a hole will be worth more in the future? Will relics from the Gulf War appreciate in the same manner as those from the "last good war?" Is a gold-plated, garish AK-47 going to appreciate like a German Luger taken from a captured officer? I'm probably letting my bias show by the way I worded the questions, but those are definitely questions I'd ask myself before making the plunge.
If you have $1K lying around and are willing to speculate, take the leap, tuck the gun in a safe, and wait to see what happens in another 20-30 years. If not, there's plenty out there vying for $1000 that would probably bring a more guaranteed return on investment. For example, now that Ruger has stopped producing their Red Label, prices have already gone up appreciably. And a Red Label would be an investment you could take to the range and occasionally shoot, as opposed to a gold-plated thug gun.
As an aside, in 1977 I had the opportunity to buy a flyable North American B-25 Mitchell bomber for the grand sum of $7,000! We were still in the throes of a gas crisis and I had just graduated from college, so $7K seemed like a fortune at the time. That is one opportunity I'll always regret passing up. If only we could foresee the future, huh?
OK, just my two cents....and probably worth about as much!