Trunk Monkey
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I've said this before but I really don't consider myself to be a firearms aficionado. I remember reading a thread on one forum where one of the posters claimed to own more that 350 firearms and I just don't see the point. If that's your thing I'm not knocking it, it's just not MY thing.
I went through my "cool gunz" phase right after I got out of the Army and even then I bet I didn't own 20 guns. I bought guns for their cool factor (that's a thing right?) without any thought to logistics and I ended up getting rid of every single one of them at a significant loss.
When I got married my wife absolutely forbade guns in the house so I had none. Then one day a maniac went road rage on her and chased her clear across town. She came home and told me she wanted a gun and a CHP. I went out and bought matching 1911s. That's when the bouncing around through different platforms phase started.
A couple of years ago I got a chance to get some actual professional training and I started refining things in terms of what I carried and how I carried it. That's also when I started considering moving to one platform and then to the simplest gun I could possibly carry. I used to carry a third gen S&W and an M&P Shield, then one day I went in to brain lock when I reassembled the Shield and tried to decock it. My brain kept telling my thumb to hit a lever that my eyes kept telling me wasn't there. I switched to Striker fired only pistols that day.
I've said it before but if I was doing this now I'd sell off every thing (excepting guns I've bought in private sales) and buy a Glock 19. My rationale is that the 19 really covers both the FS & and C niches adequately and the standard 19 magazine is legal in Colorado. That said I'd take too much of a hit if I sold off my M&Ps (especially since I can't legally sell most of my FS magazines) to buy a Glock and SWMBO would hang me.
I went through my "cool gunz" phase right after I got out of the Army and even then I bet I didn't own 20 guns. I bought guns for their cool factor (that's a thing right?) without any thought to logistics and I ended up getting rid of every single one of them at a significant loss.
When I got married my wife absolutely forbade guns in the house so I had none. Then one day a maniac went road rage on her and chased her clear across town. She came home and told me she wanted a gun and a CHP. I went out and bought matching 1911s. That's when the bouncing around through different platforms phase started.
A couple of years ago I got a chance to get some actual professional training and I started refining things in terms of what I carried and how I carried it. That's also when I started considering moving to one platform and then to the simplest gun I could possibly carry. I used to carry a third gen S&W and an M&P Shield, then one day I went in to brain lock when I reassembled the Shield and tried to decock it. My brain kept telling my thumb to hit a lever that my eyes kept telling me wasn't there. I switched to Striker fired only pistols that day.
I've said it before but if I was doing this now I'd sell off every thing (excepting guns I've bought in private sales) and buy a Glock 19. My rationale is that the 19 really covers both the FS & and C niches adequately and the standard 19 magazine is legal in Colorado. That said I'd take too much of a hit if I sold off my M&Ps (especially since I can't legally sell most of my FS magazines) to buy a Glock and SWMBO would hang me.