Who are you?

25 years old. I have an amazing girlfriend that will soon be my fiancee, as long as she responds in the affirmative (July 26th is the day). I have a background in English and Creative Writing. Why isn't this post more creative then?

My actual BS is in Media Arts and Science. Don't feel bad, I don't know what you do with a degree like that either. My job is best described as being a cleaner, a hatchet-man. You know, the guy that gets sent in to get his hands dirty. Really...just a company guy that wears as many hats as there are unwanted tasks. You name it: accounting, sales, customer service, tech support, project development, design. No, really, it isn't a one man company.

I never opposed guns but they used to scare me. Then one day I had a revelation (self-induced, if you can believe it)...There are only two sides to a gun. If you aren't on the trigger end, you're on the business end. With that epiphany, I purchased a couple of Remington 870's and shot the hell out of them. I love them like others love their housepets. I now have a part time job at a gun shop to finance further purchases. I always purchase based on reliability but secretly like the pretty guns too. Think nickel with pearl grips. That about covers it. To close, I am very grateful for this site and its members. Hats off to Oleg and the Mods.

Wow! This thread sure has legs!

Can't believe I didn't pile on back when it started... used to hang out here much more than I seem to these days... too many other demands on my time now.

I'm a 51 year old Systems Engineer (undergrad was EE with a Masters in Engineering Management) working for a Major Defense Contractor. Happily married (second time around) to the most wonderful woman in the world for the last nine years. Got two boys of my own (now 21 & 24) who each presented me with a beautiful little grand daughter last Fall... the little angels are now 10 & 9 months old respectively and are collectively the light of my life. Also have a step son & daughter who are a bit older than my boys, and an assortment of step grandkids. All of this gaggle lives within a few miles of us, so on weekends the house is abuzz with assorted members of the next generation and the one which follows. We like it that way

My parents were not "gun people" so my first introduction to firearms was in college when my NROTC unit required us to "qualify" once a year with a .22 rifle... I subsequently joined the unit's rifle team and haven't looked back. Most of my current collection was acquired over that past 10 years as I lost the bulk of what I'd previously acquired in the process of ridding myself of wife #1 (but that's another story).

Got a big honkin' Fort Knox with a bunch of handguns and various military (and semi-military) rifles... but there's still room left in there, so my task is not complete.

BTW - used to be MDshooter hereabouts until I wised up and moved North of the border a little over a year ago. Got my CCW now, and am loving life now that I've relocated to the U. S. of A.

Edited to add: Haven't bought any new guns in the past year or so as most of the discretionary income has gone to equipping a new wood/metal shop at the new homestead. That project's almost complete now, so I expect I'll get back in the swing of things before too long...

Here's my contribution

I am 18, I have crappy jobs that are available to 18-year-olds (most recently I've been a lumberjack for a good buddy of mine with a lot of land...interesting job, but pays well ). Due to age, I'm single, my family consists of my folks and my brother (if I had a family of my own, then there'd be some serious problems ) As for how my budget works to obtain longarms (hey, I play by the rules....most of the time )--I work, or people give me money. When i have $150+ available to me, I start thinking about what to buy. Even if I don't have the money, I'm always researching to decide my next purchase (people that know me can attest to this). I tend to have a fancy for cheap--surplus or combloc sits mighty pretty with my budget (which ususally yields me a firearm every 6 months or so ) If i'm not buying weapons, i'm buying the ammunition for them, so I don't usually have the option of saving for non-surplus arms (sorry, CMP campers !) Just for the heck of it--I am also a firearms geek who is employed at a firearms museum (Frazier Historical Arms Museum)! it's all fun!

How old is everyone?

21


What kind of job do you have?

I'm currently a Senior in Materials Science & Engineering at NCSU, and work part-time as a Systems Administrator for the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department on campus.


Married/single/family?

Single. Family consists of Dad/Mom and two brothers (one older, one younger).

34, computer programmer, father of 3 boys, 8 years of marriage about to end.
I could buy a lot more guns if I didn't have to pay child support, but I don't mind, my boys come first.
Brand new Honda Civic (thank you, Lord), no house, little debt (thank you Chapter 7), horrible credit (thank you, soon-to-be-ex-wife). :banghead:

Wow. This is one big honking thread.

I'm 29. (30 in August). Married for 7 years. 3 wonderful kids (5,3,1). Two girls, 1 boy. Wonderful wife. Born and raised in Merced, CA. Moved to Utah in '93. Served an LDS mission. BA from Utah State University in Accounting. Have worked as an accountant for the last five years at a little division of a mega-corp. I make an okay amount of money, about middle class, but my wife is a stay at home mom, so we are a one income family.

I've recently gotten into the gun business, and am one of the founders of FBMG. www.fbmginc.com Our retail location will be open in '06 and right now we are concentrating on shows and internet sales, and doing pretty good.

Drive a really ugly Olds Cutlass. Going to buy an '95 Explorer next week. My Aerostar finally died. (biggest hunk of leaky junk I've ever owned).

I'm one of the 3gun match directors at www.udpl.net. I'm hopelessly addicted to 3gun, and UDPL is an awesome club.

Also I'm a Utah CCW instructor, but I don't really make much money off of that, as I mainly teach to fulfill one of my lifelong goals of arming everybody.

On the side I'm a wannabe writer. I've had a few articles published, most recently in SWAT. I've written a novel called Monster Hunter International and I'm currently trying to sell it. I'm finding that that is much more difficult than actually writing. I believe that I'm a pretty good writer, and my book has been very well received by those who I've used as test/proof readers. (and they are a picky bunch, like pax, John, Al, Byron, Oleg, George, and many others). I've got nothing but a pile of rejection letters so far, but fingers crossed.

Semi-retired in 1991 at 44. I moved into the middle of nowhere.
Built a nice house. Married a great gal, a lot younger then me and
she is the love of my life. 2 cats, one thinks he is a dog.

Don’t shoot hardly at all now. Not in comparison to what I had shot.
Don’t hardly hunt any more. When I do it is with a flint lock more
times then not.

Had a decent gun collection. I gave most of the collection away.
I still have some single shot pistol and rifles and some muzzle loading
guns. A few Velodogs and other hodgepodge type of things and guns.

I have a nice complete shop at my house that I can make most any thing
I want out of wood or metal. I don’t have a rifling machine but I do have
access to one if I need one. I like making the things that I can’t buy.
I like making some old piece of junk back into a shooting iron.

56 MA Ed Admin
Retired US History/English teacher.
Owner used, rare & out-of-print bookshop specializing in warfare, politics, frontier and PNW history.
Married 35 years, one grown daughter. Sold off a lot of my guns to help pay bills as she was growing. After she moved out, I started buying guns.
Started shooting as a tiny tad. Dont shoot much now except to keep competent with my carry gun.
Favor hammerless/shrouded snubbies for carry, revolvers -particularly SA, lever & bolt rifles, semiauto shotguns.
Support: NRA (Endowment); Cascade Conservancy; Archeological Conservancy; Republican Party.

36 years old. Corporate attorney by day, husband and father by evening/weekend. My boys are ages 5-1/2 and almost 2, and my daughter is two weeks old. I was born in Pittsburgh, grew up in central Michigan, lived for awhile in Arizona, and have called Memphis home for the last six years.

57 years old.

Retired U.S. Navy 1991 (26 yrs). Work for local government as Inspector.

Married 30 years. Two daughter. Youngest BA degree, married to Navy SeaBee. Eldest gets PhD this Fall. 3 Grandkids.

I'm 22. My full time job is cooking at Perkins. I have almost no money with which to purchase guns. But that's about to change since I've just picked up a part time job at the local A&W (again) and will be starting another part time job at the local gun shop. If all goes well, I should be bringing in an extra $400-500 a month for toys. Long term plans are enlisting in the Air Force (don't when yet, recruiter was going on leave the day after I contacted him) and afterwards returning to college.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

I'm 59 years old, born and raised in California. Once divorced, one grown son. Owned firearms all my adult life. Have a degree in Business Admin with a major in Accounting. Currently work as an Asset Manager for a hospital chain, but self-employed tax preparer in the past. Hold real estate and insurance licenses. SWMBO & I live in a hilltop home on several acres in a semi rural part of central CA. Members of Methodist church. NRA, GOA, CRPA member. No felony convictions. Last infraction was a speeding ticket about 3+ years ago. Blood type O (I think). Celtic (Scottish/Irish)/Dutch (maybe German?) ancestry. Ist generation American on Dad's side (He was born in Nova Scotia). Related to discoverer of the Money Pit on Oak Island, a 200+ year old mystery. Colonial family were probably Loyalists, got kicked out after the Revolutionary War. Two brothers, one a professor the other a mad dog biker.

Did I miss anything of interest?

Well, now I'm 36, and the kids are older, and the dog is older, but I have the same old car and the same job and not much else is new. I'm still waging war against anti-gunners and growing tomatoes and loving life.

How old? 32
What kind of job? Lousy desk job, but it pays the bills.
Single.

Since you asked nicely.

45 year old retired Army officer now working for a defense contractor as a “Military Analyst”.

Married going on 15 years, to an Austrian girl I met in Spain, while I was serving in Germany.

One boy age 22 MONTHS, yes that’s right, 22 months. I’m still wondering how that happened, but he's a cool little guy so I guess we're gonna keep him

It also explains why I’m now working for a defense contractor

Chuck

Who I am.

48 years old. Single, happily single. 3 dogs, 2 cats. I am a FFL, I get to play with all my toys.

46 years old, 1 awesome wife of three years on 6/22. I have two wonderful children, 24 and 21 both a little wild but pretty good, love them both. Thier dad (my best friend at the time ) was killed when they were just babies and thier mom went sideways. I took over, she seems better these days, still a little off center. Greatful she is still alive for those guys.

I am in middle managment for a large ski boot company. My wife and I also own Waller and Son Inc. the range bag company.

I like guns, fast cars and peanut butter.

Rick

Thanks Biker.

Anyone (with more time on their hands than I) ever think about compiling these statistics? Since we have almost 500 entries, it would be facinating to see the distributions of folks, age, occupation, marital, # of kids, # of guns and averages of each.

Granted, it isn't a comprehensive study of gun owners (a bit self selected sample) but would still be interesting to see the stats...something you can use the next time you face some anti who typifies all gun nuts as "knuckle-dragging neandrathals". My quick scan of that says we have a very diverse (with the exception of not lots of women) group here.

I'm 53, married to the lovely and graceous CajunsMisty who posts here from time to time. We have 5 kids all grown. I work in a string factory, where I make Kevlar. Misty and I both have our CHP's and we have enough guns to keep us interested, but not enough to interest anyone else really. I plan to pick up a few more as we go along.

Handguns are the only guns that interest me. Shotguns are tools, I have little if any use for a rifle, other than a 22, but I love to shoot handguns. Not that I can hit anything mind you, but I like to try. (Although a SKS is starting to interest me.)

I just wish I still had the handguns I've traded away over the years.

I turned 33 today...June 29th.

I am oil-field trash. Work for Baker Atlas in US land operations as a lvl. 2 tech.

I have been divorced happily twice, with no kids.

Looking at a third "rodeo" and this one actually looks good.

Aside from a 4 year hook-up in the Army, been in Texas all my life.

As far as getting guns go, you must have patience...the deals will come to you...you go to gunshows often enough and you can find them. You see, I cheat...I sound like I have a massive arsenal but I just have a bunch of Contender barrels and a few frames.

D

I'm 29, but turning 30 in a couple days. I have been married for 6 years this Sunday. I am in sales for a technology company, we provide devices for physical and environmental monitoring for server rooms, data closets, telecom closets, etc.

No kids yet, but we have two spoiled dogs (a ridgeback and a dalmation), and 1 cat.

I have more guns then I need, but not as many as I want. I also am addicted to chasing a small white ball around a pasture, whilst trying to knock it into a slightly larger then 4 inch hole.

Fortysomething, male, Christian (but having trouble with the Episcopal Church's policies right now).

Ex-everything (federal LE, NSA contractor, paramedic, telecom, diagnostics start-up, and on and on...), currently working in largely government-funded biotech, on some really nasty stuff. I'm supposed to keep everything safe and secure.

Wife of 21 years, two boys, separated for two years but still not sure where it will turn out. The boys are, and always will be, perfect.

Born and raised in CA. Keep trying to move away, but money and family always draws me back.

Lifelong hunter, which started the "gun thing" as my wife calls it.

Then started to rebuild/restore old guns as a hobby, now restoring and selling fills the gunsafe. Well, gunsafes.

Update

I'm still living in the east bay in nor Cal. I just bought another gun - glock 30 in .45 cal (or is that 45mm?). I spent 4 yrs in the Army in the '70's, 3 of them in Germany. Lived all over the US, but will always prefer the west. CA drives me crazy sometimes, especially with its gun laws, but my wife and I do love lots of other aspects of living here. I do software consulting, and tomorrow will be laid off. But I'm getting 5 months severance pay so I won't need to turn to prostitution just yet. And at 50 I'm not sure how many takers I'd get. No kids, neither me nor my wife wanted them. We do have a cat we got from the local shelter. I wasn't too keen on getting a cat but now I really like having him around. And I love motorcycling, and own a BMW 1150GS. Got into skydiving for awhile, 31 jumps but had job and back trouble and haven't jumped for a few years. I'll probably sell my jump rig pretty soon.

And I just wanted to say that I really appreciate this forum, it's interesting and I've had a lot of questions answered here.

Armalite .223
Benelli M1 12 ga
H&K USP .45
Glock 30, .45
S&W Model 19 .357
S&W revolver .22

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swm ( and frelling proud of the single part)
newspaper delivery boy ( I really dont know where my gun money comes from)