Are you sick of people telling you that you have a lot of guns when you really don't?

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Had to google that one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balrog

When I have the privilage of viewing a collection I tend to take notice and compliment any older (mid-century if any) guns first. Including older rifles, shotguns, coachguns etc. Usually this preceeds sharing hunting tales and that kinda jazz.

My budget prevents the topic problem.
 
Some of you people act like it's the worst thing in the world your immediate family and friends you've known for years know you have firearms. Good night, if anyone knows you well enough they will discover it soon enough.

I'm not worried about security any more than I should be, I'm the only one who knows how to access them all anyway. If my little brother goes rogue on me, that's just a chance I'll have to take.

I agree if a stranger asks me about it, I'll give a socially acceptable answer and leave it at that, but that won't work when it's the people who have given you a couple of them are going on and on about it :p

Seriously, it's annoying, because you see these people all the time, they know you the best, and they just don't won't adapt! Argh!
 
Hang out with better quality folks. Don't let anti's bother you in fact if a guest makes statement like that they will NEVER be invited to my house or ant function I hold. Too bad for them.:what:
 
It's all in who you tell, I think many of you people surround yourself with the wrong kinds of folks.

I don't collect mainline crank or collect donkey porn. I refuse to act like my hobby is something to be ashamed of.

Agreed, though running off at the mouth to total strangers or the local blabber mouth or your crack head sister in-law isn't such a great idea.
 
Euclidean said:
I was born in the 80s

Dang, I feel old. I hate when I teach the Reagan era, which I remember like yesterday, and my students sit there with a blank stare.


My oldest brother was 14 years older than me, and joined the Navy when I was 4. I never really got to know him - saw him every three years when he got transferred from the Atlantic to the Pacific Command and back again. About 4 years ago, he was given 3 months to live. He was so stubborn, he didn't die until Feb of this year. I think he'd have lived longer, but he got caught up in the Hurricane Rita evacuation, and that damn near killed him. And Rita missed his house by hundreds of miles.

I never knew he was a collector until my dad died in April 2005, and having outlived his own death sentence for so long, my brother decided, at dad's funeral, to start giving his things away. Man, what a list! He kept quiet about what he had, and now that I have some of it, so do I. I work with lots of pro-RKBA people, but I still don't talk specifically about my heirlooms.... I just talk - in general - about my hobby.
 
It doesnt bother me......because I DO have alot of guns. Im damn proud of it too.....I like guns, why not have ALOT?
 
No matter how modest the number or value, some jerk will get the idea nobody should have that many. I do what I can to remain low-key and always make an "oh, I wish" comment when someone suggests, with some humor or not, that I might have a lot of firearms. After a while, my firearms knowledge sticks in their minds more than a mental picture of a huge locker of guns. Not bragging, it's easy to appear knowledgeable amongst the ignorant.
 
Some of you people act like it's the worst thing in the world your immediate family and friends you've known for years know you have firearms. Good night, if anyone knows you well enough they will discover it soon enough.
It's not the people you tell always, it's the people they tell (directly or indirectly). Personal experience, and I'll keep it as general as possible for the scenario:
Immediate family into guns, proud of them. Grabs key and shows best friend.
Best friend is impressed, tells his brother how cool it is. Brother tells another friend, not only about guns but where key is.
Friend breaks into the house at night while occupants sleep and steal guns. Not just ones you can go buy, but priceless heirooms and painstakenly hand built customized guns.
It's just not worth the risk. I don't worry about offending anybody with guns as some people think this thread is about. It's about protecting your assets. Would you like to be known as "that guy with a million dollars cash sitting in his safe". Doesn't sound as good does it? People who would take what you have don't care about the moral ramifications of your owning guns or not, they just see dollars and their next fix.
That's just my $.02
 
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