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Who gets your stuff when you're gone?

I have a great friend who is a gunsmith and he will sell all my stuff for my wife and get her decent prices. I have a son who is a deputy sheriff but he is not into hunting or shooting and not interested in my stuff.
 
I've thought quite a bit about this recently probably due to deaths in my family and of some close friends. It finally hit me that I will not live forever. No remaining family has any interest in firearms nor reloading. And I'm not about to stop shooting. So the best I've done so far is sell some rifles and pistols that I have not used in years. Can't take the money with me so it is really a situation that I have to address.
One thing is for sure, I don't want what happened in Canada a number of years ago to happen to me. Don't have this exactly right but at some point the Canadian government was taking (?) turned in firearms that were no longer legal (?) and melted them into some kind of peace statue. I'd be spinning in my grave.
 
A friend of mine has another friend whose dad passed away. Apparently the dad was a high volume reloader, and the son has no interest in anything guns. He “just wants this stuff gone.” He has been driving car loads of stuff over to my friend's house. Presses, die sets, various other reloading equipment and at this time, 20K primers and my friend has been told there's at least that many more coming.

Wow. Happy for my friend (who is not a reloader by the way, go figure) but I can't help but think I guess the heirs to this man's estate have no clue as to the value of this stuff. I mean the man invested in all of this stuff, they could possibly recover some of that investment and put it towards the grandchildren's' future. In the great scheme of things it wouldn't be a lot, but it would be something. Maybe they figure it's not worth the hassle.
yeah, i have a will that directs everything be sold -- proceeds go to a hospital that kept my dad alive quite a few years longer than he otherwise would have lived since i dont have kids, wife or family. just wish i had someone to pass on things with sentimental value. We can plan all we want but once were gone and the executor takes over things may not happen the way we wanted and directed anyway
 

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