wmg1299
Professional
Part of my business involves settling estates, and I often deal with family members who inherit firearms. For most of my career, family members were happy to have them and often had fond memories of their dad's/grandpa's/uncle's hunting rifle or shotgun. Recently, I'm dealing with more and more family members who not only have no emotional attachment to the firearms, but seem to think that "old" guns without significant collector value aren't worth keeping. There have always been family members who are scared of guns or don't want them in the house with their young children, but I'm running into more and more people who think that inheriting older guns is almost a nuisance. They see an older revolver with some holster wear or scratches the same way they would look at a 1990's Toyota Carolla with faded paint, rather than seeing them as perfectly functional firearms that fire popular cartridges and still have tons of life left in them. Did you guys have these types of misconceptions before you got into shooting, or is this just a millennial thing?