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Handguns in your collection that you would never sell šŸ¤™šŸ½

Winchester M1 Carbine that was at D-Day (Utah Beach) and was a bring back from my great grandfather. My M1 Garand, M1917, M1903, 03-A3 and my Gewehr 43 that I had to search high, low and everything in between for, while simultaneously convincing the guy who was going to consign it to sell it to me instead and giving him the sob story of how I’d been looking for one for several years after my grandfather sold the one he had. The Gewehr was a ā€˜right place, right time’ deal for sure.

Edit: sorry, I’m a moron, I didn’t see the handguns in the title. My point still stands though, after all, a rifle is still a gun that’s held in your hands, so it’s *technically* a handgun, amiright?šŸ¤”
 
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Never sell.
Atlas Athena V2
Wilson Combat customized no rail Beretta 92 Centurion

Also have an Atlas Hyperion and a custom TTI G34 CombatMaster that might also be on that list. Still undecided.
 
A Colt 1911 Government Model in .45 acp built for me by Richard Heinie.
A S&W revolver (N-Frame, pre-lock), Model 57-1, .41 magnum, 5-inch barrel, built for me by Bill Davis.
 
maybe it's not as cool as the double stack guns, but this is beyond smooth
 

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Limcat wildcat tracker and my masterpiece arms ds9. I think everything else can be easily replaced if I wanted to.
 
Classic DA/SA Sigs, Mossberg 500/590 pump shotguns, and lever action rifles, a few firearms my dad gave me for a milestone birthday are the ones I don’t intend to ever sell. Everything else, I could see selling at some point. Not in any rush to sell other items but may do so in the future.
 
Things get bad enough, catastrophic health or financial wipeout, and you will sell anything.
I had a friend in the 1980s who needed to fund something else and sold down to just one firearm, a .357 mag revolver. For over 20 years that was all he had for home defense. He eventually bought more.
 
The only two I’d absolutely never sell are my CMP M1911A1 and my customized Beretta 92FS. There are some that I’d have a hard time selling like my near-new low serial first generation Walther P99 and my CHP S&W 4006TSW, but I’d part with them for the right price. Anything else like my Glocks and Sigs are easily replaced and I’d sell if someone wanted to buy them.
 
Eh, probably more than what's on here...
 

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I learned my lesson, never sell. A few years a go I replaced my S&W Mod. 13-3. Last week I DROSED a new SIG P220. Two down, one to go, S&W Mod 10, 6 inch pencil barrel.
 
I learned to never say ā€œnever.ā€ Everything has a price! Just sold one that was on my list, replaced with two similar pistols. I have my reasons that I justified
 
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