I agree, no great loss, however it is still pretty ridiculous to melt them for some symbolic purpose when they can be sold for hard currency. The Near East, Africa and Afagistan are ready markets and as soon as Trump starts honoring his rhetoric about ending these foreign wars (US involvement anyway) these weapons could keep those fanatics killing each other into the next century.
Really though, these weapons have plenty of customers that could buy them, probably not so much for collectors (as they are refinished total mismatched garbage they are worthless to a collector), or hunters and mud puddle Halloweeners (too expensive to import even if 'Trump the chump' makes them legal through one of his idiotic "deals"), but certainly the arms market, - the real value is to a militia or reserve which Russia surely needs with NAZTO moving eastward giving commitments to every little shithole along the way... Until the US returns to its original principles, as Jefferson stated, "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none", Russia has need of these weapons (as do we all... China is a far greater threat to the US or Russia than to each other and both would be well served by preparing for communism resurgence globally - hell they already control western academia, the intelligentsia and media/press)