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Hello all, I was gifted a couple gold coins a few years ago -- just basic, 1 oz American Eagle coins, no special edition or date or anything like that. I kind of forgot I had them, but recently decided to sell one of them off to finance my conspicuous consumption of .22 ammo, and came a bit of a cropper, as our British cousins might put it. Simply put, aside from selling the thing at a pawn shop for pennies on the dollar, how are you supposed to sell the damn thing? What research I've done seems to indicate...

I just brought home my first AR-15, specifically a Ruger AR556. My understanding, based on the condition of AR-15's I've handled and general hearsay from friends who own AR's has always been that AR-15's, generally speaking, like to be well-lubricated. However, the clerk I bought it from said that the AR556 prefers "not a whole lot of oil" and the videos Ruger puts out on the AR556 say not to go ham with the lube as well...This doesn't gel with what other people have told me, and furthermore, I've always erred on the side of keeping my guns quite well-oiled....

Hello all, Recently, my mother decided to acquire her first handgun, specifically a revolver. After poking through the vast expanses of the inter-webs, one of the prime contenders has come out to be the Smith and Wesson 642. On its face, it seems to fit the bill. Namely, it's small, seems like it's fairly accurate for a gun its size, and can fire +P ammunition. I have seen some complaints about the trigger being somewhat stiff, but, my experience with these guns being non-existent, I don't know if it's worse than other double action only handguns. Also, being an airweight,...