Like through inheritance, 1-for-1 sale or you participated in the Balkan wars and came home?
Make us envious.
Have any of you been given a good gun for free before?
Like through inheritance, 1-for-1 sale or you participated in the Balkan wars and came home?
Make us envious.
My mom gave me a S&W Model 42 Airweight Lemon Squeezer that apparently came from our KKK relatives in Ohio. Feels terrible to shoot.
my grandpa gave me a better-than-museum grade original winchester 1876.
Nice
Foam cases aren't great for storage, if you use that for more than just transport.
do you actually think that gun spends anything more than the minimum possible time not on the wall of my living room, in a place of honor?
Field barrel 1876s are so fucking sexy looking, it's to the point where I'm almost angry that the sbs mares leg variant of it is always whats depicted in the media
no kidding. it's awesome to shoot too, trigger is great and .40-60 is a perfect mix of horsepowe, lots of smoke and just a bit of recoil.
How is Hunter Biden so cool?
Fuck off, Hunter. And take your senile dad with you.
old neighbor was retired NYPD. we chatted everyweekend while we did yard work. He hated Clinton and after 9/11 the soul just kinda went out of him. I think he knew the Pax Americana was over. No more smiles and funny stores of stupid arrests or dumb suspects. One day he walks up as Im cleaning the gutters and asks me to come down off the ladder. In his garage are two plastic cases on his work bench. He tells me to pick one. They are both blue Beretta cases. I pick the one the left bc its cleaner.
>New 92FS
He laughs and says the other case has the same thing. He eventually moved from his house to his family ranch up by Lubbock. Thats the last I heard of him.
>(Settlement of the powerful" or America is actually a new word that's a Germanic Latin word meaning home of power and that's why the founding fathers stuck with it. They liked what part of his name mean and what the other part and choose America instead of other weird crap
The way forward is to know more retired NYPD people.
Poor bastard, living way the fuck out in Lubbock.
If he didn't do crack and hardcore drugs I would like him
px4 enthusiast?
milk bagger here, buddy gifted me his semi auto C8, then Trudeau banned all AR's so it's just been sitting in my safe
I got my grandfather's bringback arisaka and .22 plinker when he passed, neighbor gave me his .44 saturday night special when he cleaned out his garage.
>.44 saturday night special
That's one hell of a weekend.
no 🙁
Haven't been given it yet but my grandfather's got an old Holland & Holland shotgun I've been promised.
Not sure what the importation process will be like but that thing is gorgeous.
If we're talking guns we're going to inherit at some point, my grandpa has a very nice S&W model 39 and Browning model 2000 in his collection. Some of the best looking guns I've ever seen in person
Be me. 7 years old. Mexican immigrant neighbor in ghetto apartments asks if I want gum? I say yes. Turns out he said gun. Gives gun. I think toy because plastic bullets in magazine. Fast forward to moms bf getting pulled over with my "toy" Beretta in the glove box. Luckily it was the 90s and cops weren't quite such cunts, but no more gun for me.
I work at an LGS, we obviously sold out of pretty much everything during the pandemic and we were consistently busier than we have ever been before. When things finally started calming down, our manager used some of the freebie points we had building with our distributors to get each of the sales guys a CZ 457 Royal with a diamondback 3-9 on top. I've gotten a couple other free guns before from people surrendering shit at the store, but nothing nice. A haskel (pre-high point C9), an old ass Marlin 81 that had a fucked up stock, and a Llama .22 1911
My work let me take home a rental s&w .38 that was used to commit suicide. The finish is fucked, so I'm debating on laser engraving the counter-strike:source headshot logo in it.
I'm the only one with an interest in firearms, so I inherited a few guns from my grandpa. Only one worth mentioning is a s&w 38 snubbie. Pretty good condition too
My Mosin-Nagant 91/30 was given to me by my dad.
inherited my grandfather's 1950s era model 12
thought there would be some arguments with the family, but everyone unanimously agreed i was the best person to receive it
its quite nice
Model 12...? There's a lot of Model 12s. Remington?
Not him, but without any other info I'd assume its a winchester
my dad gave me a tikka .270 with a leupold scope as my first rifle when I was like 10? Could not handle the recoil at first and there is still a faint crescent shaped scar between my eyebrows from where the scope hit me the first time I tried to shoot it(I was still an armature with even a .22 at the time). I didnt shoot it again for awhile after that, but later it became my absolutely favorite hunting rifle and I have taken many deer, wild boar and coyotes with it. The tikka bolt action has 100% spoiled me on all other bolt actions. It's so smooth I can almost shoot as fast with it as a semi-auto. The flat trajectory, accuracy, and stopping power of the .270 has spoiled me on all other cartages. God I love that rifle,
>good gun
lol, no.
But I did inherit this from an Uncle who collected all sorts of weird/interesting pre-bans in the 90's.
I got a 10/22 free from Ruger for a sales incentive a few years back
It's solid
Any special edition or just a standard wood stocked barrel band carbine?
just the standard carbine, yeah
Oh yeah, that reminds me, I did get a 365 essentially for free from the SIG sales program. I did have to pay taxes on it though, it was reported as income. I almost got enough points through the Glock program for a 43x once, but it ended and I got a bunch of mags and bullshit instead. The Vortex program is awesome, vortex bux are easy to get and you can get anything in their catalog. I've gotten a bunch of shit from them, including a set of Razor UHD 12x binos. The FN program sucks, although I have a buddy that got a free FNX 45 tac. You have to play the SIG program to get anywhere with it, they sometimes have 5x and 10x point items each month. Otherwise it's a long fucking slog through bullshit to get anything from them, but at least their points never expire.
There's programs for this kind of stuff?
Absolutely. If you get a shop that pushes certain brands hardcore, it's probably because they get shit for free.
Joe biden gave me $1900 for free and i bought 2 aks with the money
Got some good .22s as gifts. Granted the marlin has some fucked up internals so it doesn't shoot, but the others run fine
No, trash boomers horde all the good stuff even when they don't want or use my grandfather's guns.
Great grandpa died and I got his left handed Savage rifles. Grandpa died and I got his AR-15. And my friend's Liberal no-guns dad found a gun in storage and gave it to me. It turned out to be a S&W 32 revolver from like 1909-1912ish.
I have a 1980s Marlin Glenfield Model 25 that belonged to my great grandfather.
It's a great little .22. Fun to just run the bolt on all day plinking. I put a nice modern scope on it. No drilling. I used the provided dovetail mounts.
My first gun at 16.
Inherited grandfather's RZM PPK he got during the occupation. When I tried to look up the serial it seems to be a 1934-1936 make.
Was told I had to take this the ruger away from a girl because she has fits of depression.
Idk what to do anons she lives alone and is attractive and I really want her to have some means of self defense beyond a baseball bat and pepper spray.
protect her with your penis anon, it will also help with the depression
literally invite her to the gym.
Mention that you are going to start going to the gym to work on your own health (you need it) and figure since she's depressed she could come.
Help her out with how to do the machines and give her a specific series of sets and light cardio to do while you do your shit.
That should cure her depression, give her something to do that she would never do on her own, and should also definitely help you lose some weight, fatty.
I gave my dad a p320 for free since he was moving from a small town to a big city for the first time and has never handled a gun before.
I told him to just keep it in the box, its set to just point and shoot if he ever needs it.
I'll take him to the range if i ever give him a visit in the future.
My great-grandfather's Colt Navy. He ran a store and kept it under the counter.
Was he a felon or just based?
Are you trolling or just retarded?
So a felon with retarded descendents, cool
That wasn't me responding but it was in the 1880's when he had it in the store and you're calling people retards.
How old are you that your great-granddad was a store owner in the fucking 1880's? And I only called him a retard because he did the same, and he's even more retarded for replying for other people
One day my grandma called my dad and I over and handed us two of my Grandpa's old guns. It was a .22 Savage and a 12 ga sears special based on the Mossberg 500. At the time neither one of us were into guns. However, we did some research, cleaned them up (they were already in excellent condition), and shot them to honor my grandfather. We've both gone on to expand our collections. He kept the shotgun, I have the .22. It's still a great little plinker.
>based on the Mossberg 500
I think I know what shotgun you were talking about, and anon, I...
>Mossberg 500: Designed 1961
>Sears Mod 20: Introduced 1946
>JC Higgins line: Replaced 1962
If it's a JC Higgins or a Mod 20 it came before the 500 and IIRC from research a couple weeks back both were partially based on/inspired by a Remington design that came before either of them.
It's labeled "Western Fields Model D 550" IIRC. I can't remember exactly, but it's absolutely a Mossberg 500 derivative, just from taking it apart. The only difference is it has a single action bar on the pump, which I think is consistent with older Mossy Designs.
Weird; I haven't heard of that one! The 20 also has one action bar and from what I understand is similar-ish in design to a 500. Pumps smooth too. Has no loading gate, you just put the shells straight in. As someone not too into shotguns other than wanting a handful of models (nowhere to shoot them other than the patterning board at one fixed distance, maybe can shoot clays, don't want a ton of holes in my pelts when I hunt), it's a pretty neat shotgun. It's also known as the Flite King as it's actually made by High Standard.
Forgot to tag you too mb
Western Fields is a Montgomery-Ward’s label not sears. Their pumps were all mossbergs, my great grandfather has the same one.
NTA that has the Montgomery Ward but how the fuck did I not catch that when replying? Also fuck now I want a Montgomery Ward Mossberg fuck. I like the weird rebrands. I have two "Sears" or "JC Higgins" branded High Standard guns at this point.
I love store brand guns, I have a double barrel marked “American Gun Co” that was probably bought from sears by his father in law sometime in the late 1910’s and a JC Higgins 31 .22. Such cool guns and a neat bit of old school Americanism.
Grandpa also has a Marlin 30-30 with some hardware store brand on it, I don’t remember what it was but it was something basic. It wasn’t a JC Higgins or Ted Williams or anything. Story goes he won it in a raffle while stationed in Alaska sometime in the 50’s lol
Is it a Revelation branded Marlin? Western Auto would be the only "hardware store" I can think of unless it was a semi-local chain. Ted Williams is the later (60s-70s+) Sears brand.
I am 90% sure your right in that it’s a Western Auto branded gun. I found a list of all their rebrands and nothing else rings a bell. It has one of those rear sights that is screwed onto the side of the gun and the hammer has an extension on the side like the Remington rolling block. I really ought to visit the old man this weekend, if I can convince him to bring it out I will update if this thread is still up.
I’ve gotten a bunch of guns from my grandpa over the years. Pic rel, a 10/22, marlin 22 semi auto, marlin 22 lever gun, marlin 30-06 lever gun, a makarov, browning a5, r700 .300 winmag. He basically never shoots and he knows I’ll actually use the guns and he doesn’t want some other grandson getting the guns when he dies.
Damn he's got a hog
It truly is a national treasure.
Mossberg 500 crown grade
Also a Toz .22 caliber bolt action (I think it is a Wildcat?)
A friend of mine traded a used hi-point he had just bought for a mini-14. So, while not free, it was basically rape and I think that still qualifies.
supposedly my uncle is going to will an original colt python to me
but i'd just rather he be around still
Yes, a lot
>dozen or so long guns from dad ranging from an old Marlin .22 to modern ARs and a Chinese AK
>half dozen handguns from dad ranging from old S&W Glock knockoffs to Gen 3 Glocks
>old S&W .38 hand ejector and H&R .22lr revolver from my old boss
>Winchester 92 from an old dude who’s barn I helped clean and paint
>Marlin 336 for helping a guy from church lay concrete and build a patio and deck
>sporterized M1917 from some nerd who I traded some N64 games I got at the thrift store for
>beat to shit Colt 1908 pocket hammerless that my wife’s coworker found in an old locked safe that was in her house when she bought it
Grampa gave me a 10/22 for my 14th birthday. I still have it. Never selling it.
My dad gave me two Fox double-barrel 12 gauges that were his grandfather's and father's, along with the .22 bolt rifle he plinked with as a kid. I bought all the rest of my funs.