How will a lifting of the handgun freeze affect the antiques market?
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There are only so many antique pistols of that type available, and the price will inevitably continue to rise in my opinion. Especially, when you take into conaideration that for it to be considered to be an antique, the item needs to be at minimum 126 years old.
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I'm not sure if it will make any difference.
Isn't it just kind of us old guys who are interested in these kind of guns?
I don't own any antique handguns. I've been looking at them quite a bit lately though. The ones I would be interested into definitely are not cheap.
When I buy anything and by anything I mean anything I always ask myself if I buy this and then decide to sell it,what would I get for it. I'm pretty sure if I spent $8000 or more on a colt saa I would have quite a time finding someone else willing to spend that kind of money to buy it from me.
Also with all these crazy laws if I needed to replace a part for the gun. How hard and expensive would it be to import the part?
Another thing is this. I suspect this whole not a real firearm exemption thing won't make any difference to gun grabbing rcmp Trudeau types. Look at buying primers and powder. You have to have a PAL to this. Why? We never used to. I think these Ottawa goon squad north Korean types won't be happy until everything is illegal and all we do is work and give them our money. Basically mindless sheep that belong to Ottawa.
Isn't it just kind of us old guys who are interested in these kind of guns?
I don't own any antique handguns. I've been looking at them quite a bit lately though. The ones I would be interested into definitely are not cheap.
When I buy anything and by anything I mean anything I always ask myself if I buy this and then decide to sell it,what would I get for it. I'm pretty sure if I spent $8000 or more on a colt saa I would have quite a time finding someone else willing to spend that kind of money to buy it from me.
Also with all these crazy laws if I needed to replace a part for the gun. How hard and expensive would it be to import the part?
Another thing is this. I suspect this whole not a real firearm exemption thing won't make any difference to gun grabbing rcmp Trudeau types. Look at buying primers and powder. You have to have a PAL to this. Why? We never used to. I think these Ottawa goon squad north Korean types won't be happy until everything is illegal and all we do is work and give them our money. Basically mindless sheep that belong to Ottawa.
If there is a change in restricted status handguns its quite possible antique handgun prices will be affected. That said I believe it will be the garbage antique handguns that will take most of the brunt. By garbage I mean the obscure( and not in a good way as they were garbage back in the day), heavily modified( i.e. non original calibers), mechanical issues, flakey rechromes, pitted to hell samples, onerous to load for(pinfires I am looking at you) or relatively common examples like suicide specials.
Very good to excellent condition quality antique handguns guns will always have a market of appreciation. If can you find a high quality Colt for SAA for 8K you got your self a deal and you can sleep well. That said I suspect 8K only buys you an ok SAA these days.
I inherited a suicide special year ago. I literally gave it to a museum. The box of bullets more interesting than the spur trigger no name 32 rimfire gun. Yeah I wasn't even thinking about junk when I made my first post.
For the last year I've been looking online in the usual antique places that have Alberta antique guns and its basically the same 4 colt SAA that have been for sale by different owners forever now at between 8000 and 11000. None seemed to have changed hands.
If it is going to take a year to sell something then I think the price is to high.
The Webley and Smith wesson seem to move in reasonably period of time in that 3000 to 5000 range. These might be effected by gun law. I'm not into these so I'm not a buyer.
The American cap and ball revolvers. Especially like Richard's 1860 parts 1860s would be fun to own and play around with but prices for these are beyond the amount of fun factor for me. And again wouldn't be interested buying or selling long distance over ithe nternet. I don't know anyone local that would be willing to pay these high prices for something that is basically a wall hanger or toy so if I ever bought one I think I would have a hard job selling later on if I decided to do so.
Now on the other hand with Trudeaus inflation the way it is in a few years 10000 won't actually be that much.
Yeah I think I spoke to the guy with the 11K SA at the last Calgary gun show. He seemed to think he had something rare, I can't remember the details but I wasn't overly impressed. As I have an SA much less common and I don't think I would be pricing it that high. If I recall correctly the hammer was missing one of its clicks, probably dry fired lots. Anyway he pretty much admitted he priced it high because he really didn't want to sell it.
MosinMan13
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Definitely some models.
Modified SAAs that are re-chambered I could see, some of them look so modernized they’re entirely departed from the lore of antiques. Then again I wouldn’t see them dropping in price though, still useful in cowboy action, still cool, still older than our grandfathers.
Maybe come cap and ball stuff, just the bubba’d/brutalized Frankenstein survivors who’ve been bastardized by fuds.
Then again id still pay top dollar for another 1862 police in fine condition, just such a sleek ###y pistol.
I guess the underpinning of the question at hand speaks more, you’d be curious to know because at heart we desire the things, but we wish they didn’t cost an arm and a leg, hoping if people all jumped ship to restricted handguns again the market would shrink and give opportunity to scoop up some antique treasures.
Plausible.
Modified SAAs that are re-chambered I could see, some of them look so modernized they’re entirely departed from the lore of antiques. Then again I wouldn’t see them dropping in price though, still useful in cowboy action, still cool, still older than our grandfathers.
Maybe come cap and ball stuff, just the bubba’d/brutalized Frankenstein survivors who’ve been bastardized by fuds.
Then again id still pay top dollar for another 1862 police in fine condition, just such a sleek ###y pistol.
I guess the underpinning of the question at hand speaks more, you’d be curious to know because at heart we desire the things, but we wish they didn’t cost an arm and a leg, hoping if people all jumped ship to restricted handguns again the market would shrink and give opportunity to scoop up some antique treasures.
Plausible.
Prices for good antiques will not go down. There is always a market for quality antiques, and collectors are not particularly worried about the handgun ban, unless it affects antiques and their status directly - so far, it's not been a problem. I certainly have sold more of the cheaper types to those who still want a shooter but can't get one. That won't change much even if the ban is lifted. Modern handguns are still restricted and many owners don't want to jump through the bureaucratic hoops. Prices are much more affected by the US exchange rate, which may take a huge upswing after next week's election. As far as the Colt SAA's go, I can't get them fast enough, and rarely have them in stock for more than a day or two. Maybe I'm too cheap...
Cocked&Locked
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You have it backwards. That makes the prices rise significantly.
