In the early 1980s, my mother bought a Titan for self-defense, the guy she felt was going to be a problem quit being a problem for other reasons, and the gun got stuck in a closet (in the original box, with the hand-written sales receipt) until last summer.
As the political situations worsened, and as the neighborhood app she watches started having reports of break-ins, she asked me (and a couple other people she knows) to assess the gun (and a couple others--a .22 rifle that had belonged to my stepfather's father and my maternal grandfather's 12ga. shotgun).
I didn't have any real interest in the gun initially--my screen name is in reference to the reality that I buy XXL gloves, and I could barely get a grip on this tiny pistol--but Mom wanted me to check it out a bit more thoroughly and see whether it made sense for her to keep it handy as a home-defense piece.
I was shocked to find three boxes of .25ACP in the Cabela's house brand (Herter's) last fall, and over the course of a few range visits, have fired most of a box through the thing (my wife has also fired a couple magazines' worth through it, accounting for the rest of that box).
The last time I fired it, I had a stovepipe feed failure. As I understand things, with guns this tiny, a stovepipe isn't as rare as we'd like, generally a result of; a) limp-wristing a shot, b) weak powder load, and c) filthy chamber or slide action. This thing has been fired about sixty times in its life, and when I cleaned the gun a few days ago, I was shocked at how dirty it was (I had cleaned it--or called myself doing so--before I started on that box of ammunition). I was also surprised as I paid attention to the effort needed to rack that tiny slide.
I spoke with Mom about the gun today, and she has decided that she won't be able to use it safely--and I was kind of hoping she'd get there, frankly, as her hand strength isn't what it once was. She wants me to find it a new home.
I haven't sold a firearm before, and I (of course) don't want to run afoul of any legal systems.
So I'm asking for advice.
Is it worth setting up an account on GunBroker? I am certain that no local gun shop will give me as much as I could get in a direct sale, but I also don't want to spend ten hours to sell it for fifty bucks.
Early-1980s F.I.E. Titan .25 ACP pistol, possibly for sale?
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