Carcano,
Someone in this thread indicated that now families of hunters that have passed over don't want their guns and "beg" someone to take them. It has been my impression that this is not so much that this is a "want" as it is caused by the action of a new law (new to me since the 1980s) that requires the family to sell them to an authorized person/business or turn them over to the police for destruction if none of the heirs has a hunting license or WBK and puts a time limit but does not compensate the family for the loss. This amounts to the forced sale or loss of more drillings than there are willing customers for them, thereby unnaturally driving the price down. I know that it was required for a long time that whoever received the guns had to be authorized to possess them. One of my oldest German hunting friends had in his "will" that his "cousina" (SP.?) would receive his drilling but since she didn't have the permit, the drilling would have to be disabled by drilling into the chambers, welding the firing pins and action closed. She could then possess the deactivated nice drilling (Heym Mod. 33, 20/20ga. -5.6x52R with both a 4x and 6x quality scopes in claw mounts).
I wonder if you could discuss this a little.
Waidmannsheil,
Mike
Last edited by Der Ami; 04/21/25 05:53 PM.
