received the PSA AK47 today

Number of people who own prohibited class getting smaller every day. Number of the live Prohibited firearms also dwindling because

"worth more dead than it is alive"!!personally , i can't agree with this notion. Maybe i am getting old or i am old fashion. It is NOT

about profit . I am sure some people disagree with me . My personal goal is to keep as many as i can alive!

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haim said:
Number of people who own prohibited class getting smaller every day. Number of the live Prohibited firearms also dwindling because

"worth more dead than it is alive"!!personally , i can't agree with this notion. Maybe i am getting old or i am old fashion. It is NOT

about profit . I am sure some people disagree with me . My personal goal is to keep as many as i can alive!
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My 12(3), (4), (5) and (6) prohibs are taking up safe space that I could put to better use. That said, I have been dutifully "keeping my prohibs alive" for 13 years now without firing a shot. Not a terribly good return on the initial investment, I'd say. For me it is not about profit, but rather about recovering my investment when it comes time to cash out. Otherwise, what is your plan to keep your prohibs "alive" when you die? Donate them to a museum for a tax deduction worth pennies on the dollar? Good luck finding a decent museum that wants your guns these days. Most have more specimens than they can already display. Even if you can find a museum willing, having your prized prohibs moulder away out of sight in a storage vault is hardly my idea of sharing them with future generations.

You can't bequeath prohibs to an individual unless they are 12(7) eligible handguns. You can only seĺl to an ever-diminishing pool of eligible owners or a licensed business, donate them to the aforementioned museum, turn them in for destruction without compensation, or deactivate them so that anyone can enjoy the physical representation of what they once were. In terms of sharing the history with future generations, only deactivation makes any sense whatsoever. Furthermore, it is the only way to recover anything close to the original purchase price of the firearms.

While I intend to keep most of my prohib collection "alive" until I die, at that point I will be well and truly finished with them. My family therefore has instructions to have the remaining prohibs deactivated and sold with the funds accruing to my heirs through the estate. That is not deactivation for profit per-se, but recovery of invested funds in the only realistic manner possible. YMMV, but what else are you going to do with your prized collection of commercial-pattern Norinco AKs when you die?
 
i have several 12 3 class guns and i don t plan to weld them up. i plan to keep them live and defy the current so called govt by keeping them.
 
Gotta push for simplified class system. No handgun that's not full auto should be prohib. If restricted, no more problems than there are now.

Discrimination based on physical feature does not denote use or target.
 
Sorry for bring this back to life, but I also collect 12(3) to stop them from being destroyed, that all I have been trying to buy is 12(3), I only have 5 12(3), the oldest 12(3) i have is 27 years with me, I try to buy them to save them from being deactivated
 
Curtis264 said:
Sorry for bring this back to life, but I also collect 12(3) to stop them from being destroyed, that all I have been trying to buy is 12(3), I only have 5 12(3), the oldest 12(3) i have is 27 years with me, I try to buy them to save them from being deactivated
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A noble pursuit, but sadly, at the end of the day the only way they won't get a date with a chop saw is to deactivate them. The real thing will however continue to be available from storage units and back alleys in every city and many small towns in the country
 
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