When my mother passes away (assuming she doesn’t outlive us all!), I suspect any arguments will be of the “You take it”“No, you take it!” variety.
Issues I’ve encountered have frequently revolved around “gendered” stuff, mostly jewelry and the like. What happens is that there’s a son and a daughter and the son puts in a claim for his mother’s jewelry, but the one who ends up wearing it is his wife, the daughter-in-law. Sometimes the daughters resent that.
When the widow had the offer from the pawnshop it would have been nice of her to give family a chance to match that offer. Best case scenario but ultimately, the widows choice.
Sister, not widow, but I agree.
I was just thinking the same thing! 
I do worry about what will happen to my husband’s stuff when he dies. I expect his kids will be contentious.
I have only one child, my daughter. I have one nephew, to whom I am pretty close. There isn’t anybody else who matters and is also likely to live long enough to bury me. My daughter is already beneficiary of my pension and will collect a couple grand a month for the rest of her life when I take the dirt nap. The guns and other tchotchkes around here will be hers as my next of kin. She is pretty close to her cousin; if he wants anything of mine, she will likely give it to him.
Imo: Shari didn’t do anything wrong, but it would have been nice of her to offer Jack’s former possessions to his family.
Umm… these are hand guns. My father had two handguns… and in my state it takes almost 18 months to clear a license to get even one handgun. It’s why my BIL got them. He lives in Seattle and was dead-heading on some acquaintance jet. Since WA has no such laws… and since I couldn’t legally take possession of them, he packed them in his bags, flew them to WA, and that was the last I ever saw of them.
Sure, I was pissed… they were to go to me. But… as it was explained… the law is the law.