My dad's gun collection... which ones would you choose first?

[Patrick Chadwick]

sell em all, as it appears its a value thing going on

A very good point. Discussing the value is so subjective that it will lead to dissent among the inheritors.
To adapt a saying of Frank Cousins (onetime leader of the TUC - anyone remember him?)
"There is no fair price for a fair object. There is only a momentarily acceptable price for an object in momentarily acceptable condition".

In other words, the fairest way to establish the present value is to sell them all at auction.

Digged, I deduce from your posts that the guns are part of your father's estate, and therefore not your sole property. So if they are sold at auction, and you buy (at the auction!) those you would like to keep, then you have paid the estate the fair value as established by the auction. The other inheritors will thus receive their fair share of the amount raised.

Anything else is endless "iffing" and "butting".


BTW: Over here, the M1D would be worth as much as all the rest put together.