Am I crazy for wanting 4 of the same pistol?

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Well....am I?

I recently kind of fell in love with a particular pistol...the Smith & Wesson M&P 40 pro series 5". I've fired about 10,000 rounds through various M&P's and about 1000 through the .40 5" and have found them to be excellent. I live in an apartment so pistols are really my best option for home defense, plus I try to shoot an IDPA match every week.

Here's why I want four:

1. Bedside ready with night sights and TLR-1

2. In my truck's center console with night sights and TLR-1

3. For daytime matches with fiber optic sights.

4. For nightime/low light matches with night sights.

Does this seem over the top, especially when I already have a trio of M&P 40's for concealed carry (.40 pro 4.25", regular .40, and .40 compact, all with night sights)?

I've shot glocks, sigs, h&k's, 1911's, and xd's and haven't found one that I prefer more than the M&P. I'm single and have an average paying job so I have the cash and don't have to justify my expenses to anyone. Even so, I can't help but feel a bit foolish for having this many pistols. I like the M&P's trigger pull, grip feel, recoil characteristics, ease of disassembly (and idiot proof disassembly), interchangeable grip sizes, underside rail capability, looks, and price.
 
Personally I see nothing wrong with that. I have four Model 10 pencil barrels and three heavy barrels. I also own multiples of several military rifles. The more the merrier I say!!
 
If you shoot them well, like them, trust them, and need a gun to rest in the various locations you state, I don't see anything wrong with it.
 
Are you crazy? No, not by any means.

A little OCD or Hording tendency perhaps though! :D



And you could cut down to only three by using the same gun in the truck and nightstand.

Leaving a gun in a truck 24/7 is, sooner or later, only going to arm a crackhead who breaks into the truck to steal your car wash quarters out of the ash tray!

rc
 
If I could afford it, I would own a gun of every make and model, of every configuration made, in every caliber it was available in, also in every available finish.

Some people have told me it'd make a fantastic museum, but when I told them they are for personal enjoyment, they told me I was nuts.

and good point about leaving one in the truck 24/7. I used to do that and then a string of break-in's around our apartment complex happened and I took it inside. 2, maybe 3 days later, it was MY truck broken into and they searched it high and low. Would've had my gun. I never leave it unattanded anymore.
 
My truck has a good alarm, I keep it locked up well and it stays parked right outside my bedroom window. At work it stays inside a guarded, gated parking lot. Plus it's a POS, non descript '04 tahoe so I don't think it's a particularly attractive target for break in. If someone gets lucky and finds the pistol, that's a risk I'm willing to take, just like the risk of someone breaking into my apartment with a dolly and hauling off my 800 lb gun safe. I can't exactly bolt it down seeing as I don't own the place. This is also an advantage of liking $500 pistols instead of $2000 ones. I know it would suck to think of some criminal wielding my pistol to harm others, but, as in all of life's choices, there are risks. The benefit of having a dedicated firearm in the truck for those times when I can't carry on my person (which is the case during my most common use of the vehicle-driving to my workplace where carry is prohibited) outweighs the potential risk of theft in my view.

/thread drift
 
Really they aren't the same pistol though since they are configured differently. If you want to save yourself the hassle of swapping out the sites everytime you want to do something different then by all means buy four of the same. It's still less than a high end 1911 :neener:
 
As long as you are happy with it I think it makes sense. From what you say, I would probably have 3, with the bedside and truck just being my carry pistol. The M&Pc is a great carry pistol.

Dave
 
Seems a bit much to me.
1. Bedside ready with night sights and TLR-1
2. In my truck's center console with night sights and TLR-1
3. For daytime matches with fiber optic sights.
4. For nightime/low light matches with night sights.

Seems like 1,2 and 4 could be the same gun just take the TLR off for your matches. As far as that goes some of your carry guns could fill some of those HD roles as well.
 
not to mention that if the gun in the truck is rarely used for anyting else, and a bed-side gun is there only while you're sleeping... why not just have one pistol for both?
That DOES seem like a waste of money to me, but it's your money. If you have the money to spend, it won't hurt anything.
 
I think it's great to have many pistols, even the same model.

However, I would NOT leave one unattended in the nightstand or glovebox of my vehicle in an apartment complex. Absolutely not.

Truck alarm or not, in the 2 minutes it takes you to react your gun would be looonnngggg gone.

Take it from someone that has had his vehicle robbed, it doesn't take long. 15 seconds maybe 30 seconds? And I've also have firearms stolen from my vehicle. There's more to it than "oh well."
 
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Its not bad to have four, but 3 would do the job. I'm with the party that says the nightstand and truck have the same gun applied to them.
 
No, if you really like it good to have a spare...
But have you considered that maybe you are looking at this wrong,


GET A CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT

Then you have one on YOU, and it's in the truck, next to the bed etc.

Sides, in a car, you first priority is driving anything you might shoot at (and it's very hard to hit from a moving vehicle BTW) you can hit with the car. Shooting and driving means you are doing BOTH poorly.

Now I'm not saying don't get a bunch, but, rather you are thinking about this all wrong. Sides that, 'everybody' knows shottys are the way to go with HD, as anything that can penetrate a person will also penetrate a wall. So you might was well make it count.
 
I can see a matched pair of CCW guns (mostly in case one is confiscated in the aftermath of a shooting), and I can see variants on the same gun for a collection (e.g., different barrel lengths, finishes, etc.). But four of the same model is not something I would do, personally.
 
"Am I crazy for wanting 4 of the same pistol?"

Certainly not. That gives you a few spares if you start wearing them out.
 
I do have a CHL. However, it is often not possible for me to carry, since I work at a large government facility in which I am not allowed to do so. I also find it somewhat impractical to disarm myself of a concealed weapon in a parking lot prior to entering my workplace (tight quarters, chance of negligent discharge, chance of someone seeing what I'm doing), thus my logic for the truck gun. The advantage is that this facility, as I said earlier, has a guarded parking lot. I don't go to a lot of malls or other areas where the chance of theft is high, and if I did, I'd take the pistol out beforehand.

As for the nightstand gun, of course it goes in the safe along with everything else when I'm not home.

I already have 2 out of the 4 sitting in my safe right now, so it'd only be two more to buy :D....right now I use the regular M&P 40 as the bedstand gun, the M&P 40 compact as my summer CHL piece, and the M&P 40 pro as my winter carry piece. I really prefer the longer sight radius and better ballistics of the 5" barrel of the M&P pro 5" for applications where concealed carry is not a factor though.
 
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