What does everyone do with the boxes firearms come in? I've saved them for years but contemplating throwing them out. I've moved them from room to room too many times. I could see keeping a box if it was for a collectible gun. Every used gun I've purchased did not come with a box, so I can't see how a box could make resale much higher if any.
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Firearm Boxes: To Keep or Not To Keep?
- Thread starter Wistone
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The flippers always want the boxes.
My FIL (deceased) was in his backyard one afternoon tending a huge bonfire. I asked him what he was burning (it was hot, August I think, 1994) and he said, "Gun boxes." I was horrified.
He'd just taken a large collection of pre-'89 ban guns on consignment from a widow in Cola, SC and he didn't "have the room in the house to store the boxes."
Polytech Legends, HK91's, 94's, Colt Green Labels, Valmets, Maadis, Galils, Fabrique Nationale FN/FALs, FNCs, etc. You name it. He had it. He burned them all. A tragedy. Huge financial loss in my opinion.
He'd just taken a large collection of pre-'89 ban guns on consignment from a widow in Cola, SC and he didn't "have the room in the house to store the boxes."
Polytech Legends, HK91's, 94's, Colt Green Labels, Valmets, Maadis, Galils, Fabrique Nationale FN/FALs, FNCs, etc. You name it. He had it. He burned them all. A tragedy. Huge financial loss in my opinion.
Non-flippers also like boxes. Thanks.
Only keep the Taurus and HiPoint boxes so you prove they aren't fakes. 
Always save the boxes and anything else from the factory, with the possible exception of the stupid lock (although if it's branded I even save those).
I've always found that selling a gun with 'box and docs' is more likely to get a better price, and is also more likely to speed up a sale.
And when it comes to older guns the box increases the value tremendously. I have a Savage 1907 that has the box and docs, and I've been offered almost twice the 'normal' price for a common, but very cool old gun.
Storage is a pain, but I simply buy a few of those Christmas tree storage bags to hold them all and toss them up in the attic. They do just fine up there and I have some boxes more than a decade old that look brand new.
I've always found that selling a gun with 'box and docs' is more likely to get a better price, and is also more likely to speed up a sale.
And when it comes to older guns the box increases the value tremendously. I have a Savage 1907 that has the box and docs, and I've been offered almost twice the 'normal' price for a common, but very cool old gun.
Storage is a pain, but I simply buy a few of those Christmas tree storage bags to hold them all and toss them up in the attic. They do just fine up there and I have some boxes more than a decade old that look brand new.
Bunches in the attic. Those things take up a lot of room.
I prefer to buy used guns that have the boxes. I tend to think that if you have the box and the associated accessories it probably is not a gun stolen from someone's car. However, I'm not to happy that that I paid almost $800 for a S&W Shield Performance Center gun that came in a cardboard box!
