How many buy new guns based solely on a fantasy?

Do you ever buy guns based on a fantasy?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 41 57.7%

  • No. I only buy for specific uses.

    Votes: 30 42.3%
  • Total voters
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Besides any fantasies I might indulge in, I have to get everything past the sub-committee on finance. She has a highly practical sense of what is necessary or not.

I don't buy guns for aesthetics, unless you count the appeal of form and function as aesthetics. I buy them to fill a specific job. Maybe when I'm rich, one of those jobs will be to allow me to sit in my office playing with it, imagining I'm Robert DeNiro in 'Heat'.
 
I hate to admit it, but I drool a lot over guns I like from fantasies. I carry a p226 (pruchased for quality and reliability, not per fantasy) and anything past that is going to be sitting in a safe anyway, so why not go on fantasy. I like seeing guns I own in movies or tv shows, so that adds to it.

I went and bought a Baby Eagle because Spike Speigel uses on on Cowboy Bebop. My buddy bought it from me for the same reason.
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I've been thinking about getting that for the same reason :D

Usually I consider both fantasy and reality. For example, I've been thinking about getting P228 or a P229. My reason for getting it is that it is very reliable and the same thing as my P226 only a little more concealable. But Jack Bauer is the reason I want it with a stainless slide :D
 
Let's see my first handgun 44 mag even though I'd never fired a handgun before and it wasn't the terror it was made out to be.
Last purchase DPMS AR15 A4 with muzzle brake and genuine non collapsible collapsible stock.
 
I started looking for a Makarov because that's the gun that Ocelot first uses in Metal Gear Solid III. Then I saw the prices and snatched one up.
 
If I could own any of those short double barrels in the movies, I would in a second. (of course they are very practical guns)
 
Can't say I do.

I'll admit it. A manga got me into CZ at first.
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There's a lot of cool and often accurately depicted guns in anime. I just finished the Kiddy Grade series - two of the guns there are the Walther 99 and - remember this one?
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The C.O.P - also used in the movie "Blade Runner" by Leon to maim the Blade Runner Holden.
 
Fantasy guns

I bought my Ar15 and Rugers Mini 14 and Mini 30 after the Clinton semi-auto ban of 1994. Something about not being allowed to have them made me want them very badly.
 
I bought my Ar15 and Rugers Mini 14 and Mini 30 after the Clinton semi-auto ban of 1994. Something about not being allowed to have them made me want them very badly.
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The threat of bans on the horizon must have boosted gun and mag sales more than I could ever imagine. The cproducts mag buy at arfcom after the elections seems to show just that.
 
fess up the majority of those of who voted "No" are just in Denial...:evil:

either you have bought something "'cause it's cool"/it fit in with a scenario in your head (that you may or may not see as a fantasy), or you have one rinky dink gun collection!

I'll be honest very few of the guns i have owned were bought for strictly utilitarian reasons (my 10/22 for use in teaching wife and step daughter for example). i buy b/c i like them, be it for appearence, some mechanical aspect, nostalgia, historical signifigance, or it fits with something i've always wanted to/fantasized about/or it's a clone of a weapon used by i group i personally find worthy of praise.

as for an example of "gun bought or built b/c of a fantasy". When i was in HS I dreamed of becoming an AF Pararescueman, or combat controler but due to medical conditions was unable to even enlist (congenital foot defects, doc said i wouldn't have been able to finish the first week of basic :banghead: ).
So I want a clone of one of those Frankenstein carbines the Air force built that are a semingly almost random mix of M-4 and early M-16 parts. just b/c i've seen a large number of pics of PJs and Combat control troops with em. Plus i'm not that hot on A2 sights except for use in HP Service Rifle.
 
From what I can see about 80% plus of the non-military, non-police purchases are based on some degree of fantasy--which probably puts them in the same category as purchasers of 4WD pickups.

Back when I was a kid I thought Paladin was quite something; but I didn't think I was going to become him.

I didn't, either. I became me.
 
Can't say I've succumbed to this particular failing ;) ... yet. But I do have this totally insane hankering for guns featured in James Bond novels (Ian Flemming's -- not the later ones).

Now, KNIVES, on the other hand, are a different story! :evil:

Albert
 
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