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

[Third_Rail]

B.D. Turner, agreed; anyone who thinks that 99.9% of the time they can try to steal my rights away and that the police will protect everyone, yet wants my protection the other 0.1% of the time is completely intolerable.

 

[P-35/53]

My oldest son who is 26 has the right idea - one for every year of you life. I'm behind so I better get busy.

 

[LAK]

I have more ballpoint pens than guns.

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[TechBrute]

It never fails. In a discussion about ANYTHING, someone is bound to think you have too much of something.

I have been told I have too many or too much:
hard drive space
cars
house
nuts and bolts
varieties of soda in my pantry
music
movies
computers
tvs
temper
t-shirts with holes
pairs of socks
back issues of magazines
kids
popcorn in my desk at work
legos
and fat.

However, with the exception of my wife, no one has told me I have too many guns. That might be because there are only 5 people that have seen inside the safe and a couple of them pointed out deficiencies in my collection.:banghead:

 

[airmonkey]

I've got more than my brothers and less than my uncle. Keep trying to catch up with him but he has a forty year head start.

 

[Dr. Dickie]

Look if they say that, then they are likely a "touchy-feely" type. So, turn it around on them.
Say, "When you say too many, that is a judgment. Why are you judging me? It really hurts that you would be so quick to judge me where I have always accepted you with all your faults."
Then turn and walk away.

 

[redneck2]

uhh...you missed "How do you think that makes me feel?"

 

[LadySmith]

Most people already know this, but one never asks a lady…
1) Her age
2) Her weight
3) How many guns she has

 

[MrTwigg]

Nobody ever told me I have too many;

Cigars
Fishing rods
Comic books
Hawaiian shirts
CD's / LP records

So why do I have "too many" guns ?

I refuse to treat my hobby like it is something I should hide from people or be ashamed of.

BRAVO ! Well said !

 

[AirForceShooter]

Down here in Florida people would call my assembly of firearms a "small collection".
I NYC where I come from orginally before I escaped it would be an Arsenal.

AFS

 

[halvey]

Its only ignorance about guns that would cause people to think that a dozen guns is boatloads. I mean, a pump shotgun, an O/U shotgun, a .22LR rifle, an air rifle, a .30-30 lever action rifle, a .308 bolt action rifle, a .223 semi-auto rifle, a .22LR revolver, a .22LR semi-auto pistol, a 9mm semi-auto pistol, a .45 cal semi-auto pistol and a .38 spl snub nose revolver ....

I wouldn't count an air rifle as a gun. If the ATF doesn't, I don't.

 

[Dr. Dickie]

Here in North Florida, we call it "A good start!"

 

[Hemicuda]

Nope... because it's the truth... I do have way too many firearms... but that's ok... I'll buy more anyway...

 

[wolf_from_wv]

Well the average person who sees my collection would think I have too many, which is no surprise.

The "non-average" are probably looking for a paper towel to wipe the drool away...

 

[Geno]

Good points all

First, to the comments posted by Vito, great points! I ask people with children and no firearms in a vault, in the home, "Wait...you have a wife, and children, yet you have no means of protecting them? Isn't that almost negligent?!"

Second thought, my wife who once exclaimed, "How many guns do you have!?" (to her, 2 guns would be 2 too many) I smiled and and responded,

"You once told me that you can go 195 days and never once wear the same outfit of clothing. Still want to discuss my firearms collection? See, you've taken your every penny and spent on clothes and shoes, while I've invested mine into a few fine firearms and hunting." I have not heard another word about it since.

Besides, my "collection" hardly constitutes a collection. Of all members here, I probably have one of the smallest quantities of firearms, and they are none too horridly expensive, but they are mine and I like them. In closing, I am careful to which friends I disclose what I own. As such I am less likely to become inadvertently a target for someone's theft tendencies. I trust my friends, but not necessarily their friends. You never really know.

Doc2005

 

[MechAg94]

I really don't care who knows the guns I have. I even have a "list" of my guns in my signature here at THR. If someone wants 'em, feel free to try and take them. I can't guarantee the safety of anyone attempting this, however. And I refuse to treat my hobby like it is something I should hide from people or be ashamed of. Of course, by the same token, I don't advertise it to the world because of the stigma us gun owners carry. But if someone asks me what I'm into, I'll give them a list, including guns. If they think I'm a paranoid whack job for owning guns, then they're not worth my time in the first place.
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My guns:
Yugo SKS M59/66
Ruger 10/22 scoped carbine

"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people"-V

You don't have enough guns. I hope you plan to add to that list or that is not all of them. When you get enough that you start thinking about how much money and effort it would take to replace that collection, then you start thinking about keeping quiet.

Personally, It is just a matter of safeguarding valuable possessions for me. My parents got broke into a couple times growing up so they were always concerned about people knowing we have valuable stuff even if it is not very much. Home robberies are sometimes done by people who know you or know someone who knows you. I guess it was just the way I was raised. Out of habit I don't talk about my money or possessions with people I don't know really well. A guy I work with had his guns stolen by a no-good brother-in-law who knew when no one would be home.

 

[f4t9r]

I like it when people tell me how many guns they have , I just ask questions and when possible say I like to see them. As for my own I just keep low key

 

[redneck2]

A guy I work with had his guns stolen by a no-good brother-in-law who knew when no one would be home.

I've known at least three people that had guns stolen by "friends" or relatives. With drugs so prevalent, a junkie will steal anything from anybody to get a fix.

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

Keep your mouth shut. Get a good safe. Get an alarm. Any discussion like this means you should zip your lip.

 

[Sistema1927]

Some people think that one is too many, there are others who think that 100 aren't enough.

I am not absolutely sure how many I own now.

 

[sm]

What Guns?

Mr. Keenan , great post #4 sir I agree!

XB , your post #8 was priceless.

 

[Mark Whiteman]

Its too bad, but gun owners should be aware that they don't have to be a badguy to come to the attention of those that can cause them grief. Many times an acquaintance of a friend of a family member can be the source of information that starts a file on you. How many times information like "two guns" is passed on and after multiple tellings, someone gets "arsenal"? Too many. The important thing is, after you say something, you are no longer in control of how it is repeated, or to whom. When my kids were in primary school they learned the topic didn't need to be brought up at school. When they asked why, I just said "because many teachers and other parents don't want people to have any guns." They thought for a minute, recalled one particular teacher, and that was enough for them. That, and the number of times they'd bragged about the latest neat bobble they acquired resulted in its disappearance convinced them there were people that didn't rate their trust.

 

[carterbeauford]

I have 2 shotguns, 4 rifles, 2 pistols, and a revolver, all them relatively inexpensive. They all serve their individual purposes. Eventually I'd like to start collecting, but my collection as it stands is purely utilitarian.

There have been some insane collections of guns posted here. Not that that's a bad thing, if you have the money. I don't have more than $3,000 in my collection.

 

[GlenJ]

My wife and I had this same argument a week ago with her stepdaughter who thinks people should only own one gun and it should be registered. She also said that if do you own fifty guns that your a nut and the Government should be able to ask why you have them. However, she thinks it's perfectly OK that her father deals pot, drives to Mexico for pills and one of her father's wife's sons is in the Mexican Mafia in L.A.and is a cocaine dealer. This is the kind of people we have to deal with as gun owners. Morally bankrupt pieces of garbage. Needless to say we aren't speaking right now.

 

[Jim K]

"It might be fun to show off new toys to friends but if it gets to the point that they're telling other people that you "have a lot of guns" I'd be a worried"

My point exactly. Imagine a "friend" in the local bar blabbing to his new found drinking buddies that he knows this guy Joe Clotz, the guy in the white house on the corner, who has a couple of hundred guns around the house. Anyone want to bet that Joe gets visitors - cops or crooks?

Jim

 

[Devonai]

You can't win. I know a few people who think I'm a nice guy, but, if told I own a whopping one rifle, two shotguns, and two pistols, would go and probably avoid me.