If you die and have a loving wife, you don't have any guns, she does. If a n'er do well son is your only survivor and sells your guns for $300 each, shame on you for dying with guns. If he is not your only survivor or heir, he shouldn't have control of the guns by himself. To prevent your heirs from selling your guns for $300 each, provide that they be sold at auction, then they will bring $350 each with about $55 paid in commission on each one and another $50 in expenses to carry them around. I like the "she owns them, I don't" option. Hopefully, she will live a few more years and figure out how to liquidate them and keep the money. In my opinion, guns are a bit like garden tools. There are few pieces of paper identifying them or valuing them, and hardly anyone knows what they are worth, if anything. I just don't see a problem with a few hundred dollars worth of hunting equipment being passed down or given to a wife. My waders are not going to be caught up in court, nor will my Carhardt bird pants, least of all not my 20 year old Filson bird boots.
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