Firearms Appraisal and USAA

[WarPig]

I am putting my firearms on my insurance with USAA. For the most part I have the info I need, but they said I need to get a few of the older family heirlooms appraised since they are no longer manufactured, I didn't pay for them, etc. They mentioned these 3 companies.
American Society of Appraisers (ASA)
American Gem Society (AGS)
International Society of Appraisers (ISA)

I have never had any firearm appraised before. Anyone have any experience with this around here?

 

SECOND QUESTION: Do any of these insurance companies cover safe damage?

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Edited August 17, 2015 by WarPig

[Johnny Rotten]

I use USAA for my autos and CC, I use Farm Bureau for my home and boat, I've tryied several times to pin each agaisnt each other and neither could beat Collectibles pricing for what I needed to declare. 

http://collectinsure.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Collectibles%20Keywords%20-%20Insurance&utm_term=insurance%20for%20collectibles

They only request S# for guns over $5k, I list the amount $$ I want insured and they do the rest.

 

 

[runco]

I have a separate rider policy from State Farm.  All I have with them was a list of guns, model numbers, and approximate value (by me).  No other questions. 

Edited August 17, 2015 by Runco

[WarPig]

Did you do any research to see if people had any claim issues or anything? The only reason I figured I would go through USAA is I do everything else through them so far.

I use USAA for my autos and CC, I use Farm Bureau for my home and boat, I've tryied several times to pin each agaisnt each other and neither could beat Collectibles pricing for what I needed to declare. 

http://collectinsure.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Collectibles%20Keywords%20-%20Insurance&utm_term=insurance%20for%20collectibles

They only request S# for guns over $5k, I list the amount $$ I want insured and they do the rest.

[Johnny Rotten]

Did you do any research to see if people had any claim issues or anything? The only reason I figured I would go through USAA is I do everything else through them so far.

 

I'm pretty sure no one will compete with USAA on customer service, as far as collectibles I got a lot of good feedback on ar15.com for people who have high dollar NFA collections, both USAA and FB didn't want to insure my guns

[WarPig]

I'm pretty sure no one will compete with USAA on customer service, as far as collectibles I got a lot of good feedback on ar15.com for people who have high dollar NFA collections, both USAA and FB didn't want to insure my guns

That's what I was a little concerned about. I have about 10 NFA items and the collection is growing. I just started the process to get a quote from them yesterday but I wondered if they would cover suppressors, built SBR's, optics, all that other junk.

 

The company you suggested wasn't bad, they wanted about $200 annual. I'll keep digging around and see what USAA says and do some more research on the Collectibles company. I have never really dealt with insurance claims (I'm over 30 and this week was the first time I ever even had to deal with a fender bender claim. That's what got me thinking I bet my firearms aren't covered by standard insurance). Thanks for the advice.

[Johnny Rotten]

This is a 4 month old post, same guys piped in for me 4yrs ago..

 

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_6_22/445025_insurance_for_machinegun.html

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Edited August 17, 2015 by Johnny Rotten