How does your significant other take gun buying?

How does your significant ther take you buying a new gun?

  • She/he hates it...means days and week of heart ache (and back ache from the couch)

    Votes: 23 9.1%

  • She/he doesn't care too much as long as there is money for them...

    Votes: 121 47.8%

  • My money....their money...

    Votes: 29 11.5%

  • She/he is at the gun shop swaying me towards a model that he/she likes...

    Votes: 42 16.6%

  • I'm single...

    Votes: 38 15.0%
  • Total voters
    253
  • Poll closed .
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Let me tell you something about MY wife. She won't hardly buy anything for herself so when I got my bonus check last month, I made her go buy that Coach purse she has been eyeballing since we got married. She also wanted a new set of sheets (I benefit there too) so I went with her to pick them out. She only got upset once about it and that was because I didn't tell her I bought it. Everything after that we have discussed. Sometimes I have to sell off other stuff to make up for it but for the most part I get what I need.

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When I first started my collection last year, the wife gave me a raised eyebrow when I told her the cost of my new USP.

I then asked her how much her $150 shoes would be worth in a year.

Never a comment on gun cost again. :D
 
My wife isn't crazy about, mostly because she thinks I don't use them. I don't get to the range often (it's less than a mile and a half from the house) and she thinks (rightly) they mostly stay in the locker. The last gun I bought came out on the MasterCard bill when she was paying bills and she just shook her head.
 
If my wife knows there is something I want, she tells me to buy it, even if money is really tight. I wont, because I prefer to pay the bills first, and then make sure she has things she needs. When money isnt so tight, I get things I want but try to always get her something, too. And she's pointed out a rifle and pistol she wanted, and I bought them for her.

I've got an envelope for gun money, too, and have dipped into there before to ensure that we got the bills paid and had $ to put gas in the wifes car so she could get back and forth to work for the week.
 
My wife is just the best. I have gotten her out shooting and we are due to repeat some practice for her. She is well capable now with my (HER? :p ) .357 house gun. I am working on pursuading her to go get her CCW too, even if she does not elect to carry 16/7 as I do.

As far as she is concerned, my ''indulgences'' are not too important as long as we are ''heads above water'' financially. Now and again she sees in the safe when it's open but ... I doubt she would have a clue what was there last time - compared to what is there now! It just always looks full! :D
 
I've been divorced since 1980, so squabbling over money spent on firearms hasn't been an issue in nearly a quarter-century. If I were to settle down and get married again, we'd have separate funds and fewer arguments.
 
None of the options accurately describe my SO. She has little interest in shooting, herself. But she supports my habit. We agree on purchases. She adds input where she can. She shoots once in a while just so she "knows how they work." And I think she takes pride in my shooting skills.

So I guess that's in between "doesn't care as long as the money's there" and "is in the gunshop seering me towards guns she likes."
 
Jon watches too much CSI and Law and Order SVU. So he is very excited I carry. He would hate it if something were to happen to me and I couldn't defend myself. He would like to defend me, but isn't always there. He is happy I do, and would be interested in getting his CCW soon too.

I only have one and both of us would like another, but both of us know rent needs paid first. Also we want a Chevy Silverado, but that probably won't happen. As long as bills are paid we would like to get more.

Someday I want to buy him a Ruger 22 like my dad has cause Jon LOVES to shoot it and would like one.

Wouldn't he be surprised if I got him that? heehee. Can't wait till I have the money to that.
 
Mine loves to go gun shopping. She even likes to see what I find on the internet. My biggest problem is trying to pry her fingers off whatever I buy. It seems if you open the safe you will find her guns and my receipts. I do get to shoot the ones which don't fit her very well.
 
heh... just check my sig.

Well actually...

The QuarterWife and I have a excellent system; I buy guns, she buys shoes. Here’s how it goes- for every firearm I purchase she gets the similar dollar amount in shoes. Sometimes she gets some really nice shoes (just who is this Jimmy Choo guy anyway?) and sometimes she gets Keds.

It’s sort of funny; we’ll have very comparable conversations trying to convince the other (when we’re really trying to convince ourselves).

Scene 1 Act 1
QuarterBore: ‘Ooooh look! A NIB K-frame .357!’
QuarterWife: ‘Don’t you already have one of those?’
QuarterBore: ‘Yeah but this one is a 3â€! (Or pinned and recessed, or square-butt, or…you get the picture.)

Scene 2 Act 1
QuarterWife: ‘Oooooh look! Pretty black shoes!’
QuarterBore: ‘Don’t you already have a pair of black shoes?’
QuarterWife: ‘Yes, but these are 4†heels! (Or flats, or pumps, or patent leather… see what I’m saying?)

It’s all about the give and take. And what I can get away with.
 
The wife tends to not mind as much since I've gotten my C&R, mostly because the indvidual cost is lower. Of course I've increased the frequency that I purchase 'new' toys :evil:
 
Been married 42 years and...............

and she has never said a word about my gun addiction. I know for a fact that she does not like guns at all. As a nurse she has been involved with more than her share of gun shot wounds up close and personal. She has seen first hand just what a gun can do to a human and this has made her very "anti" gun. Not in the political sense but she just does not like guns. God bless her she has never let that get in the way of my liking/buying guns. Of course I take great care not to shove them in her nose. It has worked out. Good shooting;)
 
I generally get :rolleyes: as a response.

My wife doesn't mind that I'm into guns, she just doesn't understand why they're so interesting to me.

As long as I don't spend money we had set aside for something else on them, she couldn't care less.

:rolleyes:
 
I let her have

I let he have what ever she wants, cause she'll never catch up and she knows it.

It's easier to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
 
My wife hadn't shot before we got married. Even though she was surrounded by guns in her family she had only once shot a muzzleloader. She grew up on a couple hundred acres where family would regularly hunt. Additionally, she has an uncle with a gunshop and a 500yd rifle range in his backyard. But they never put a gun in her hand!! She was never turned off to the idea of guns but she wasn’t enthusiastic either. As far as she was concerned, guns are something you were supposed to have in the house “just in caseâ€.

Well, fast-forward a couple years, a number of training classes later, and after becoming an EXCELLENT shot with her favorite guns, (A Colt Python and a SA Mil-Spec) she is a certifiable gun nut. After reading Unintended Consequenses, she said to me, “I want lots of guns!†Now, she expectantly asks, “what gun are we going to get next?†whenever we get some extra money due to a work bonus or tax return.

If her eyes light up because of a specific gun, I forget about whatever I was thinking of getting, and encourage her gun habit! Inevitably, it was a gun on my “list†anyway. :D
 
Wife's reaction to gun buying

Over our 25 years together my wife has been really good about it. However, I'm the kind who would rather take his lumps up front if there are lumps to be taken! My wife is also very supportive of 2nd Amendment rights. :)
 
Biggest problem with Mrs. Meek is she thinks chrome plating, the Kel Tec pastel color range and other new age design factors are 'cute'. So if you see me at the range with a stainless steel zebra striped green stocked rifle you will know the story and won't have to embarrass me by asking. :uhoh:

Luckily she doesn't like bullpups nor black rifles. :D
 
I'm in the same boat as RCL (he's got one of the first posts in this thread)--I buy my guns, but she gets her jewelry. I don't suppose we'll ever understand the other's fascination (why are little sparkly rocks so enticing?), but at least my gun habit is tolerated.
 
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