{"id":30901,"date":"2026-11-09T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/what-is-the-future-of-surplus-w-val-forgett\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:00:40","slug":"what-is-the-future-of-surplus-w-val-forgett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/what-is-the-future-of-surplus-w-val-forgett\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Future of Surplus? (w\/ Val Forgett)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xfLu1R3tdM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Today I am speaking with Val Forgett of Navy Arms about the future of surplus arms in the US. The Golden Age is never coming back, and thanks to the internet allowing government sellers to recognize what guns are worth on the collector&#8217;s market, the dirt-cheap prices of decades past will probably never happen again. However, there remain many paths for fresh surplus treasures to find their way here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am speaking with Val Forgett of Navy Arms about the future of surplus arms in the US. The Golden Age is never coming back, and thanks to the internet allowing government sellers to recognize what guns are worth on the collector&#8217;s market, the dirt-cheap prices of decades past will probably never happen again.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/what-is-the-future-of-surplus-w-val-forgett\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the Future of Surplus? (w\/ Val Forgett)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}