Okay, I gave my mom a call about a half hour ago. Thankfully, she hasn't done anything with the guns yet. Some things I've learned:
OldGrump, Dad did belong to a gun club, but it closed years ago. Our next door neighbor (who is also a hunting buddy) does not know of any gun clubs nearby. These last 10 years or so, Dad's health deteriorated to where he was not able to hunt anymore or participate in the gun clubs.
My nephew took the gun he wanted--which was actually just a BB/pellet pistol (sure looked like the real thing to me! yikes). My husband, who grew close to my father in those later years, sounds like he was more or less adopted by my dad (who so wanted a son, poor guy!). Apparently there's an old 22 that wasn't really worth much, but it had been Dad's dad's, and it was my father's first gun. He wanted my hubby to have it, so we'll take it though we're not really gun people. It's currently disassembled, anyway; my hubby helped Dad take it apart, clean it, and oil it recently.
All of the guns are unloaded.
Mom is game for taking the guns to a dealer; she doesn't want to do anything where she handles the selling of the guns directly.
The Weatherby is a custom--I think it might be the one that was customized left-handed for my southpaw Dad--and it has a gorgeous leather case.
She said that next time hubby and I are out there, we can get in the safe, take pictures, and write down all the serial numbers and such to identify the gun types.
Freakshow, Simi Valley is a good potential link...it's pretty close to her. Once we have more info on what the guns are, we just might be taking the guns there. 20% isn't too bad; when I had some saddles on consignment, it was something like 30-40% (!!). That's when I decided Ebay was a better option for selling the saddles...but notsomuch an option for us here.
Can the ammo be taken to the gun dealer, too?
Thank you everyone, again. Your information has been invaluable. I'll keep you posted--it'll be about a week or so before we get out to my mom's again, but once we have more detail on the guns, I'll be back. Thank you, again!