Does anyone else do this or maybe just me? Every single time I’ve purchased a new gun to carry with me, I always sell the previous one I carried. I’m not sure why. It’s pretty much automatic.
This is what I did with my PPS gave it my son.I can see selling a cheap or budget hun to get a better one. However, like others have said if its reliable, and you shoot it well keep it or give it away as a gift.
Accessories and upgrades are the big money losers so those upgrades are saved for only the ones I know I am going to keep forever.
To your point, if you buy a good holster and 2 spare mags for pretty much any carry gun, and go to sell them used as a package, you're down $50-$100 right there. If you can recycle those into the same platform and keep them, cool, but OP is transitioning platforms every time. That's losing a bunch of money to do over and over for a life time even if you're selling the guns at what you paid.
I do get the argument that if you're never going to touch it again, ditch it, but I haven't bought any that I dislike that much, personally.
Okay...I will be the odd man out.
I see no reason to keep something you no longer use. If I am not going to carry it, take it to the range, or it doesnt have sentimental value it needs to leave the safe to make room for new toys.
On that same note I have very seldom lost money on guns. Not saying it hasn't happened just very rarely. Usually break even or make a little which offsets the occasional loss.
Accessories and upgrades are the big money losers so those upgrades are saved for only the ones I know I am going to keep forever.
I have a CZ that I would never be able to recoup my cash but I also have NO plans on getting rid of it.
I'll agree with parts of this. I've definitely moved out of a few items as I have transitioned various guns. I traded or sold off the Glock 43's when I went over to Sig P365 to fill that space. The 43's didn't share mags with my other Glocks anyway, and the holsters were not going to fit anything else. And I was not going back to a 43 once I had a lot more capacity in a similar sized gun that I shot better. That said I was able to recoup some of my investment even in the holsters and mags. I invested the money from selling the 43's into additional 365's, magazines, holsters, etc. If you buy right, you can usually get a large part of your money back to put into the new platform.
I did not however trade or sell out of the Glock 19 platform when I picked up some M&P 2.0 Compacts. Kept the 19's and the holsters, mags, etc. I can still use the mags in my AR9 and I can pick up one of my Glock 19's and carry it same as I might my M&P 2.0's.
When I swapped from 40 several years back, I sold off the Glock 23's and mags, but kept the holsters as they fit the Glock 19's I picked up.
Basically, if the gun is an outlier in what I carry and I have replaced it for sure and won't go back, it will get sold off, to fund backup guns on the destination platform (Glock 43's got sold to move to the P365). If I'm not sure I am definitely replacing something or still have use for it, I'll keep it (heavily invested in Glock 19 platform and kept them, even as I picked up some M&P Compact 2.0's).
If you are not a collector or accumulator, look at if the gun still matches your platform or at least standard operation you might keep it otherwise sell it depending on how it fits in your system.