Bad Ninja
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When I see someone buy 1000 rounds of ammo I don't think "mass shooting", I think of all that lovely brass and wonder if they reload, and if not,....... 
Gun "Super Owners"
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Carl N. Brown
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Oh, let's see, to particpate in the military match season at the gun club. One event is three targets, 10 round each, 30 rounds. Events per match are modern rifle, modern pistol, vintage rifle and vintage pistol. 4 x 30 = 120. Seven matches Mar - Sep make a season. 7 * 120 = 840. That does not include sighters or target practice. I look for bargain prices on ammo and may stockpile two or three seasons worth.
I guess that makes me an ammo super user. I guess that's gonna be the next talking point.
I guess that makes me an ammo super user. I guess that's gonna be the next talking point.
I can just imagine what the MSM would say about "some person's" home. It has enough firearms for an army, a basement room with XX pounds of gunpowder, tens of thousands of projectiles, etc. They would probably throw in "bomb making components" and use the word "terrorist." I know this guy, and he's just a hobbyist.
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coloradokevin
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Well, the thing that makes me laugh about this whole idea is that a bunch of anti-gunners are running around out there, seeing me as some nut, when my collection (a 3x "Super Owner") barely qualifies me as an enthusiast with some of the folks I know!
i thought that would be an easy question too, but after buying two firearms this year, trading one off, and inheriting nearly a dozen, i actually had to sit down and write them all down and check my list multiple times before i i was sure it was correct. i was a superowner before appearently, but am now definitely moreso lolWhen I first started buying guns, if someone would ask 'how many do you have'? it was easy to give them the number. Always figured that when/if I couldn't answer such a question it meant I had enough. So now...I've either got enough or Alzheimers because I can't put a number on them.
SingleAction
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I think it's the politically correct equivalent for "gun nut"!
.308 Norma
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Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! You might be right SingleAction. I just never thought the left-leaning, elitist press cared very much about being "politically correct" when they refer to people that aren't like them - especially gun owners.
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Divide...check.
Conquer...underway.
If I remember correctly, is not the Angel of death named Azrael?
Also Ghargamel's cat.
Conquer...underway.
If I remember correctly, is not the Angel of death named Azrael?
Also Ghargamel's cat.
Demi-human
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I traded a malfunctioning wife for my two children and a new hobby. In just three short years I've aquisitioned seventeen firearms. I wasn't even trying.
Having just said that, I feel as though someone has been given the short stick. Not me, but someone, I imagine.
I'm not sure about 'super owner', but I'm trying my best to be a 'SuperDad'.
Having just said that, I feel as though someone has been given the short stick. Not me, but someone, I imagine.
I'm not sure about 'super owner', but I'm trying my best to be a 'SuperDad'.
zb338
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Do they have a super duper category?
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grampajack
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Makes one wonder how many people here are on the terror watch list. Believe it or not, buying three guns in a short time span can get you on that list, along with a bunch of other arbitrary nonsense.
JTHunter
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According to this article, I'm a "super owner" twice over. One antique revolver is mechanically unsafe to fire (which I didn't know when I shot it!) as the cylinder doesn't lock-up properly, so only 15 work.
Do you have an authority for that assertion?
Buying three pistols in a certain period of time pops you up on an ATF list, but that's not the same thing as the terrorist watch list. I bought 3 guns within a week in 2016 and I've still got my TSA pre-check status, so clearly I'm not on any watchlist.
Rex B
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I'm in Texas, where everyone is Above Average - at least in this area. Some of us compensate for the slackers
grampajack
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You're confusing the watch list with the no fly list. The way I understand it, everyone on the no fly list is on the terror watch list, but not everyone on the terror watch list is on the no fly list.
There are also no rules as to who gets put on the terror watch list, or who gets taken off. All we have are some documents released through FOIA that hint at some guidelines.
Bad Ninja
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I saw a guy at a gun show a few years back with a T-Shirt that said:
"If I'm not on a watchlist, somebody's probably not doing their job."
That said, here in Cali they restrict handgun purchases to one every 30 days.
Puts quite the damper on collecting.
I just missed out on an Uberti .38 conversion by 3 days.
As I recall (and from a brief skim of the article), this whole business about super gun owners started with a "study" (using the term loosely) that was obtained exclusively by The Guardian and The Trace. That whole "obtained exclusively by The Guardian and The Trace" business gives me some reservations about the "study." I think that the whole "super gun owner" idea was ginned up to make gun owners look less significant on the political landscape. ("Sure, Mr. Congressman, you can vote for gun control. A new study shows that 50% of all the guns owned in the US are actually owned by only 3% of the population. Those guys are called "super gun owners," and they don't vote, anyway.") I also think we should be watching for a later attempt to link "super gun owner" to "superpredator," which was a term I heard a while back. I'll have to go do some digging on that one.
No, I'm not.
I said nothing about the no-fly list. Re-read the post.
What I said was that even though I did an action that you said would get me added to the terror watchlist, my TSA pre-check - an entirely different program from the no-fly list - was unaffected even though it should have been (https://www.tsa.gov/precheck) had I been added to the terrorist watchlist; something you said would happen because of my gun purchases.
But did not.
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Before I left the Federal Goverment and went out on my own, I was familiar with the "watchlists" and can say that while the government is operating "behind the curve" since they have to wait for evidence to accumulate, the "watchlists" are neither useless nor are they a waste. I can at least say that the watchlists prevented more terrorist actions than you have fingers and toes.
ironworkerwill
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I've made it into at least two super sub categories 22lr and Savages
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