Everybody is 'picking up' guns. I am buying them?!

I watch the sidewalk pretty carefully, but none ever appear. Sometimes I pick one up after I drop it, as it would be silly to leave it lying there for you to find.

I have picked up three folding knives while hiking, one of which is a fairly nice marlinspike. What a marlinspike was doing in Arizona, I'll never know. The spike comes in handy for clearing stuck primers in my reloading press.

I pick up guns every time I go to the gun shop. Doesn't mean I buy any of them or that they follow me home.

My grandson found one - a S&W 9mm - right outside his back door. But he didn't pick it up and instead did the smart thing - told his dad, who called the police. Seems a mentally disturbed former neighbor had been stalking some of the families on the street. She must've been scared off somehow & dropped it where you see it:

the count said:

Not a serious post, duh.

Everywhere I now people people saying the just picked up this gun or that gun. I wish I could just pick up guns around town and not pay for them. What am I doing wrong?

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Maybe you're driving the wrong kind of car. Back in my youth (many, many years ago) I heard guys refer to some kinds of cars as "chick magnets." If some cars are "chick magnets," maybe some other cars are "gun magnets." Or maybe those guys bragging about their "chick magnet" cars were just exaggerating.
For what it's worth, I've never owned a "chick magnet" anything that I can remember.

"gun magnet car" ^ Guess I'm outa luck with my 20+ year old pickup truck with peeling paint.
I do have a tool retriever that picks up steel casings from my range brass bag, but it's an actual magnet on a lelescoping rod.

I pick up a lot of guns, especially at gun shows. Sometimes I even acquire one of them.

I will pick one up anytime I have the opportunity,If I think I might like it, or dont have one in the caliber Im suspect to buy it with full knowledge there will be too much month at the end of my money. I still have a home and we are fortunate enough to have plenty to eat. My wife thinks she is a doctor but her idea of plastic surgery is to skin me alive. She is suspect to hop on a broom any second and if provoked will mumble while throwing everything in the kitchen in a bubbling pot too. I still get edgy on the way home when ive bought another one, I can hear the broken record. "What do you need another gun for" I attempt to evade and most times I make it to the shop lol

I hate to admit it but I find guns frequently, they are usually guns I bought years ago and forgot about. I guess losing it does have an upside at times.

I'm getting close! I picked up a new RP 30-06 cartridge behind my truck this week! Ive got my fingers crossed the gun will be next!!#!!

the count said:

Not a serious post, duh.

Everywhere I now people people saying the just picked up this gun or that gun. I wish I could just pick up guns around town and not pay for them. What am I doing wrong?

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Get a job at a gun shop. Thats what I did. I pick up dozens of guns per shift, play with them and put them back without paying. If I really like something, I can buy it at cost.

I like Eddie Eagle's advice, regardless of how old you are. That advice is, "if you see a gun";

STOP!

DON"T TOUCH!

Leave (secure) the area.

Tell and adult (law enforcement).

It might have been used in a crime so I wouldn't want to get my fingerprints on it, what are you going to do if you do pick it up? Carry it home and play finder's keepers? If not that, walk up to a cop and say while pulling up your shirt "hey I've got this GUN" (followed by Pavlovian response)BANG BANG BANG BANG? Best to just leave it where it is, secure the area and call it in.

"Picking up guns". I never was any good at "picking up chicks"; never had the smooth "pick up" lines.

To the XD's, how about, "you're a sight to behold!"

And do Hi Points get prettier near closing time?

cc-hangfire said:

And do Hi Points get prettier near closing time?

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Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Darn it cc! You made me spill my coffee on myself!

cc-hangfire said:

And do Hi Points get prettier near closing time?

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A paper bag might help too.

Have a friend, who years ago had a weird job. Banks hired him to clean out houses that had been foreclosed on. Mostly it was just hard work removing junk & clearing yard debris. But it was not unusual for him to find all sorts of odd things left behind. Often it was firearms related ( gun cases, lots of ammo, cleaning kits, etc ). A few times, he did find guns. So I guess, he picked up a few guns.

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If I am in a gun shop and ask to see a gun in a case, usually the gun shop employee picks it up for me and hands it over.
So other people can pick up guns for you if you just ask nicely.
I do pick up long guns on racks if the store allows that. When I pick up a long gun, or ask to see a handgun, there is a 25% to 50% chance I might buy it. So if I don't pick one up or ask someone to hand me one, chances are very slim that I'll buy it.
However, on the internet, I can "pick up" a gun if it's a good deal from many miles away. It's a magical thing.
I have dropped two handguns in all the years I have been handling them. I blushed with embarrassment and anger.
I picked them up faster than a hundred dollar bill on the floor of a Walmart checkout lane.
They were both semi auto pistols. I remember both instances vividly. First time I messed up a rear sight.
Second time I slowed the fall with my foot, no damage occurred.

Getting 'em off the street. Every time I leave the house I keep my eyes peeled. Haven't found any guns in the street yet.

This just in: English is idiomatic.

If you picked up a dog, would you be stealing it?

Something to think about.

A few years ago my wife got me the birthday gift of a gun tree. Marvelous thing it is. She got the .45 ACP plant which grows better in Pennsylvania overcast.

I recently scored a gun after I picked it up.

The trick to picking up guns is your first impression. Guns are very finicky and temperamental. They say a Glock will go out with just about anyone, so I guess that makes them the tramps of the gun world. Then there are those scary ones that you only pickup after dark and hope your friends don't see you with it, you know the High Points. Then there are the ones that think they smell better than the rest, you know the H&K's and Sigs, well if you can live with their attitude then who am I to judge.

On a slight tangent, maybe a secant, to that "English is idiomatic" line, we also have posters who "come by," or "acquire," or simply "got" a gun. If they bought it, why didn't they say so? Maybe it was a gift or bequest.
Seems a lot of these folks are uncertain: "I just got this gun. What is it and what is it worth?"

We've had a bunch of guns enter and exit the gun safe over the years that were not bought or sold in the transaction by when they entered or left: gifts, trades, inheritance, loans, ...