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rholmes69
07-30-2012, 09:51 AM
My brother in law has the above pistol. He really isn't in to guns anymore and wants to off load it for a simple revolver for home protection. At least he hasn't turned totally to the left!

Anyways, he offered this to me for $150, which I know is a hell of a deal, but he is family now and I can't take that kind of advantage of him. So he wants to sell it, I will help find him a legal buyer and I get brownie points. I can't really find anything that has been helpful in getting a fair price on this. I see them on gunbroker for 500-600, but there are none that are sold and some of them are new. So, what is your opinion of what I could expect to sell this for? I was thinking of listing for $500 and putting negotiable. He has the original box and it has one 7rd mag. Finish is good, not great. There are some wear marks as he used to shoot it often up to about 2 years ago. Serial # is AOA0xxxx. He was familiar with the disassembly process and it was fairly clean, especially considering it has been sitting in a drawer for a few years.

Thanks for any insight.

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DeaconKC
07-30-2012, 09:08 PM
A good used 1911 with those sights will usually go for around 400 - 450. Listing it in the trade section will probably get him a very good used .357 revolver. I wish I had a good trade piece for it right now!

Bawanna
07-30-2012, 09:13 PM
Me too. I'd like to give it a home too.

rholmes69
07-31-2012, 09:39 PM
Thank you gentlemen for the replies. A local pawn shop offerred him $275, we listed it on armslist and have an offer for $350 so far. I hope I can get him $400... We shall see!

Bawanna
07-31-2012, 10:00 PM
I'm looking for Peter so I can rob him. I might want in on this.

When did Kahr take over AO? Anybody know?

rholmes69
08-01-2012, 09:08 PM
Somewhere I read said 1999, but I am not 100% certain of that. If you believe wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahr_Arms