Anyone else have too many guns?

[Westside]

Too many guns?

I guess it's all dependent. I think my brother in law has way too many Star Trek figures. He has one in pack and one out of, and they are all on shelves in one room on the wall. They sit there and do nothing. I guess he enjoys them, or at least he says he does, and they may have investment value. Maybe.

All of my guns, save my newest purchase, have been fired many, many times and have brought myself and my wife much fun and excitement. I plan on getting the new to me 870 this weekend to get familiar with it. I guess if you have so many guns that you don't remember the last time you used one, you may want to evaluate it's value to you and perhaps "thin the ranks." But if you have even 50 guns, and know that sometime in the past year you have fired them all and you enjoy having them, and they all have some kind of use (plinking, hunting, defense, looking awesome at the range ) , then good on you.

You mean guns have use beyond that!!!!

 

[VERT]

I guess my objective is not to collect guns, and after a certain point you have all the guns you need to get your goals accomplished you know?

All the rest become just static, that need to be cared for, shot, reloaded for, and they really arent helping towards your goals as a shooter.

I thought for sure I wasnt alone in this ... but maybe I am lol.

You are not alone. If something becomes a safe queen I find it a new home. I do have a couple of guns that I will be keeping specifically for examples/loaners for teaching NRA basic pistol. But otherwise I have pretty much thinned the herd.

 

[dom1104]

Lemme see if I can clarify.

Needs

Home Defense = lightweight AR15 + service pistol
IDPA / SS = 2 1911s , 1 9mm 1 45 ACP
CCW / OC = ltwt 45 ACP 1911 <me> + 45 ACP moonclip revolver <her>
Three Gun = 20" ltwt AR15
NRA High Power = 20" heavyweight AR15
Hunting = 870 + 10/22

ALL of my guns are 1911s of some type.
ALL of my rifles are AR15s.
My only shotgun is an 870.

ALL of my wifes guns are either dao or revolvers.

I just dont have any use for a caliber other than 9 and 45 in handguns, 5.56 or .22lr in rifles, or 12 gauge in shotguns....

so what is the .38 snub, .38 PPC gun, or other 2 22lr ruger 10/22s I never did get around to customizing doing me?

Nothin, other than potentially eating more money as they become "projects".

Wish I hadnt bought them, but now that I have, its time to divest. And buy more ammo / mags / holsters etc for the guns I DO shoot / have a purpose for.

I just figured others felt the same way, that they had some dogs to dump.




thought it might be interesting to put toghether a "Guns you shouldnt have bought" picture thread or something

 

[Titanium Man]

I had too many guns, so I called Jeff Johnson, and he fixed the problem. Now it's just right.

 

[cityartisan]

What I'd like to have: + 300 blackout rifle + 308 rifle + 22 revolver + 45acp carbine + 40s+w pistol and carbine + and on and on and on.

I may be able to help you take one of these off your list. Send me a PM.

 

[leftsock]

I've condensed the calibers that I shoot, but I've just bought more guns in those calibers to replace the ones I parted with.

 

[Hoosier45]

I won't say I have too many, but I have been selling some the past few years to buy nicer/more expensive guns.

 

[bingley]

Man, I know it's tough out there. Sometimes these guns just multiply, and there isn't anything you can do about it. The worst is when your wife finds out, and you might as well sleep on the sofa for the next month. I mean, I'd rather she found out that I went to the strip club than I bought another gun!

Tell you what. Why don't I do you a favor. All of you people with too many guns: I can hold them for you. They'll be cared for, taken out to the range for some exercise, fed good ammo, and cleaned. I know how important this is, so I'm willing to take one for the team. I don't ask for anything in return, just that if it's within your means, help out a fellow gun enthusiast in the future.

It's really a tragedy, I know, but it's for the best if your guns come to me. PM me for a meetup.

 

[slipnotz]

You can't have too many guns.

 

[Mgderf]

I do not have too many guns. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 different calibers between long and handguns, some duplicated, some not.
I do not have too many guns, but the only ones that I really want, are all of the ones I don't currently have.
I do not have too many guns...

 

[uhhuh]

Man, I know it's tough out there. Sometimes these guns just multiply, and there isn't anything you can do about it. The worst is when your wife finds out, and you might as well sleep on the sofa for the next month. I mean, I'd rather she found out that I went to the strip club than I bought another gun!

I feel your pain. I have most of the parts and accessories shipped to my office. She gets home from work way to early!

 

[calcot7]

Huh?

 

[WOLFEMAN]

Your kidding, right?

 

[Rob377]

Lemme see if I can clarify.

Needs

Home Defense = lightweight AR15 + service pistol
IDPA / SS = 2 1911s , 1 9mm 1 45 ACP
CCW / OC = ltwt 45 ACP 1911 <me> + 45 ACP moonclip revolver <her>
Three Gun = 20" ltwt AR15
NRA High Power = 20" heavyweight AR15
Hunting = 870 + 10/22

ALL of my guns are 1911s of some type.
ALL of my rifles are AR15s.
My only shotgun is an 870.

ALL of my wifes guns are either dao or revolvers.

I just dont have any use for a caliber other than 9 and 45 in handguns, 5.56 or .22lr in rifles, or 12 gauge in shotguns....

so what is the .38 snub, .38 PPC gun, or other 2 22lr ruger 10/22s I never did get around to customizing doing me?

Nothin, other than potentially eating more money as they become "projects".

Wish I hadnt bought them, but now that I have, its time to divest. And buy more ammo / mags / holsters etc for the guns I DO shoot / have a purpose for.

I just figured others felt the same way, that they had some dogs to dump.




thought it might be interesting to put toghether a "Guns you shouldnt have bought" picture thread or something

Can't say I have too many at the moment, but that's my thinking on it as well. If there's a gun I'm not regularly shooting or don't have a specific purpose for, it represents misallocated assets; money I could've spent on ammo, training, match fees, vacation w/ the wife, retirement, primo booze, whatever.

If I've got HD, games, and Zombie apocalypse covered, any guns beyond that would be too many.

I figure once I get a 20" NM AR, (maybe) a carbine, and a nice semi-auto 12ga., I'm done.

 

[LionWeight]

You can NEVER have too many. The only time you can have too many (and this is only temporary) is when the gun safe gets full. The fix is not to sell guns, but to buy a new or larger safe.

 

[Electronrider]

honest honey, just a few more guns and I will have my collection completed!

 

[Darral27]

I actually laughed out loud when I finally read that. Had to highlight the text and squint to read it.

Wife either logging in on his page or reading his posts. I lol'd.

 

[worddoer]

Too Many Guns?

Who would speak such heresy! For your insubordination you deserve 40 lashings...with a wet noodle.

But I could see this being used in a redneck style joke.

You know you have too many guns if...

You have to move guns out of the way to use the restroom...
All your furniture is built from Mosin rifles...
You have to reinforce the floor of your house because of all the gun safes...
When you take your guns to the range, you need an 18 wheeler...

What others can you guys come up with?

 

[rby1rby]

There is no such thing as "too many guns"

 

[LionWeight]

You may have too many guns if:

you get out of bed to use the bathroom, trip on the 1911 that fell off the night stand and knock over your gun racks like the library shelves in the movie "mummy".

you have to buy rem oil by the tanker.

instead of a safe you put steel doors on your basement.

cabelas calls asking if they can use afew of yours for display in their gun library since you have all theirs.

you break the springs on your dually going to the range.

Any more?