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Ever regret selling a particular gun?

shilowar
Several months ago I sold a  NIB Colt LE6920.  It didn't take to long to regret doing that as it was a month or so later that Colt announced suspending civilian sales.  Well I corrected that error yesterday, I picked up a LE6920 on private sale (even better, bite me Northram) that is lightly used...which is a plus because now I have no guilt about shooting the piss out of it!  Plus I picked it up for much less then I sold the last one.    So have you ever sold a gun you regretted and picked up the same model not long after to correct that error?
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  • shilowar
    William81 said:
    A little over 20 years ago, my wife was diagnosed with cancer.  Some dark days then, young children, lousy insurance coverage and a stack of bills about a month before Christmas.....
    Easiest sale for me were several firearms to keep the wolves away from the door and make sure Christmas was as normal as possible......

    20+ years later, she is healthy...the children are all grown up and I have purchased similar firearms to some of the ones I sold and actually was able to buy back an early S&W 66-1  2.5"....it took me 10 years to get that one back....
    I actually found the Forum during those dark days.....been here ever since....
    I've sold many guns over the years when finances got tight.  
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  • asop
    35 years ago a S&W Dirty Harry new in box.  Just needed the $$$ :/
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  • 4205raymond
    Sold a NM Garand in 1963 for less than $100 to get a little money for our honeymoon. Took a whole months military pay for first grocery shopping. Woke up day after wedding and snowbound 24". Been with my bride now 56 years.
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  • dok2u
    Yea, just a few.  In 2005, I rented a truck, packed everything up and took it all to an auction house.  At about 73K, got more than I expected.  Now, the price on those items has gone up so much that I can't afford any of them, but that's ok because my broker has managed to loose all that an more to the tune of about 900k in the last three weeks.  To say that I'm sick, is an understatement
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  • jimdeere
    Ouch!
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  • yoshmyster

    No regrets yet. I guess with my modest accumulation. Only sold a S&W 1076 civilian model with magazine removal thing deactivated so it'll pop off a round if one round was chambered. I threw in 4 magazines or was it 5 but that was decades ago and I didn't lose money since she went to my bro in Washington State. Then there was the Hi-Standard 6.5" "Space Gun" that was clean and I found a muzzle brake that I added with 7 or 8 switchable barrels? One was a Clark Victor barrel I never shot through. This sale I made money.

    Then there's the Kahr K-40 that's still sitting at the local that was put on consignment to fund the "White Feather". She's coming up on a second year at the shop in September? She went in right after .40S&W lost favor with the public. I think I'll take a cup cake and couple candles to mark the date. I'd take her back but I don't wanna do the DROS all over again and to add insult they raised the fees. I may have to take the spare 7 round magazine and a Hart's recoil reducer to sweeten the deal. Hell I may have to pay for the DROS to get it done. But maybe the pandemic got the sale done? Panic buying you know. Be jacked up if the K-40 is sitting there with the shelves and cabinets emptied. Like a fat kid getting picked last for Dodge Ball.

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