"user, I want you to explain to me what do old guns have that new guns don't have? What do old guns have over new guns?

Tastefulness.

Aniki's boot camp video made me join the Marines.

History.

Steel
Wood

Character and history are about it.

Many are effective enough that modern improvements are marginal at best. Others have niches that the modern market hasn't seen fit to actually out perform them in, still others simply are more known quantities than newcomers to the market. If a designs flaws are predictable and mitigable then that may be preferable for some over a design so new that it's flaws are mostly or entirely unknown.

>The gun has played a critical role in history. An invention which has been praised and denounced, served hero and villain alike, and carries with it moral responsibility. To understand the gun is to better understand history.

Past precedent, and inspiration to take arms design further than existed before.

More than that, they are sources of social and nationalistic inspiration. Many past weapons have long defined the regimes.governments that they have indirectly supported.

Old weapons are just as important in the present day as they were in their hay-day, for past designs inform future weapons.

Now that I think about it, your question kind of pisses me off OP.

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They have a certain feeling about them.
A smell, dents and dings, all the new tightness worn from them.

The older a gun is, the greater the feeling is. The feeling of knowing you’re not the first person to fire this and you most definitely won’t be the last. That gun has been to more continents and places than you have, and probably ever will be. It’s summer more people and seen more shit, it seems...wisened, in a way. Like a classic car. Someone before you loved it, and as such you aren’t so much the owner as it’s current caretaker. It is your responsibility to find it’s next caretaker as well. It’s a sense of comradery with people you have never and probably will never know. By all accounts it should be a museum piece but here you are, working it away just the same as it did 100+ years ago when it was rolled out of some factory that hasn’t existed for a half century or more.

And that is something a new firearm will never be able to have until it has first passed through your hands. I’m not against new guns. But I certainly don’t feel the connection to them that I do old ones.

history
character
the ability to be a snapshot of technology from a different time
a connection to your forefathers
something different because they're not simply the same idea with all the rough edges fine-tuned away
proper machining, if it's a remington

Well, long ago there was thing called "metal", which people used to make everything out of, just like they do with plastic now.

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No plastic shit

Character and what: said.

Most were better made. Sure there were some Saturday night specials, but the majority of guns were overbuilt for what they needed to do. These days they do the material science to get things down to the bare minimum.

Remington and Colt. New isn't always good.

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Milled receivers

Old guns had rails, full auto, and magazines over ten rounds, while new guns don't?

grandfather clauses