Avoiding the testicular sidetrack.

Too much pessimism in this thread.

Yes, there are legislative and societal issues that don’t apply to coins or model trains. But all of the collector gun market has held up well, except for things that have actually been completely banned.

And yes, some people tend to specialise in things they couldn’t afford or didn’t buy when younger. I’m a bit like that. But I also own things made way before I was born, let alone a teenager or adult.

I’d suggest that most of the fans on here of LJ BSAs, Webley Services, pre-WW2 Webley pistols etc were not alive when those things were available new.

Fact is, unless the economy completely tanks or a new variant of COVID decimates the population (or both?), we have a growing global population with increasing discretionary income. Which means more people with disposable income to collect stuff, whether airguns, stamps, or Rolexes.