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[Chris T.]

I understand buying/selling/collecting, but it seems to me this happens all too often. It's hard for people who want to buy a gun to keep and use when there are so many people buying them up to make a profit. How many times does a gun sell +$500-1000? before it ends up in someone's safe for good. I can't tell you how many times I've missed out at an auction and found the gun forsale for two grand higher than it sold a week later. I know it's a business, if you don't have money you shouldn't play, blah blah, it's frustrating. My two cents, don't mean to hurt any feelings.

Chris

[Bill Murphy]

Paul, Petersen provenance is less important than the fact that Petersen's guns are the cream of the crop in some cases. Visit the NFM and you will wonder how he accumulated his guns. It seems like one man couldn't possibly do it. I have not seen the Petersen Automotive Museum, but it is probably the same "cream of the crop" type of collection.

[billie bryant]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Paul, Petersen provenance is less important than the fact that Petersen's guns are the cream of the crop in some cases. Visit the NFM and you will wonder how he accumulated his guns. It seems like one man couldn't possibly do it. I have not seen the Petersen Automotive Museum, but it is probably the same "cream of the crop" type of collection.

bill you hit the nail on the head! bob after about 3 yrs. collecting guns went to a different level as he decided if it was not perfect, rare & had provenance he would pass? his machine gun collection was best in world & he was a tue gentleman when he passed, as 85% of collection went to NRA & winchester museum & rest went to auctions?

Originally Posted by Chris Travinski

I understand buying/selling/collecting, but it seems to me this happens all too often. It's hard for people who want to buy a gun to keep and use when there are so many people buying them up to make a profit. How many times does a gun sell +$500-1000? before it ends up in someone's safe for good. I can't tell you how many times I've missed out at an auction and found the gun forsale for two grand higher than it sold a week later. I know it's a business, if you don't have money you shouldn't play, blah blah, it's frustrating. My two cents, don't mean to hurt any feelings.

Chris

On my paternal side, our surname was Murinski- my grandparents migrated over in 1911- from NW Poland (near the German border) small mining town named "Lucky"- go figure dat, eh?) I agree-, these auction houses- and other non shooting dealers who set prices sky high, and based on a "wing and a prayer"- I could care less if the late Robert Petersen almost owned this Japanese-made copy of a BHE, ditto if anyone else well known in the gun circles did- saw the same thing with bamboo fly rods- wait until a fire takes out Leonard in Central Valley, or Jimmy payne or H.S. Gillum get the "dirt nap" and see how the dealers mark up their rods they already had for sale- just due to that. The free market system is the fairest known, but I agree with you- and like the late Ernest hemingway- I also believe, as did my Dad and Granddad (on my Irish side) that guns were there for us to shoot and use and care for- you can betcha u duppa on dat!!