PATH
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Is it possible to ever have too many guns?
How many firearms is too many?
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I have asked myself this same question. About 10 years ago I wrote a program that would calculate the number of guns it would take for me to have too many. The program is running via distributed processing on a dozen Cray Super Computers but it hasn't reached the right number yet.
I figure in another couple decades it might count high enough.
I figure in another couple decades it might count high enough.
Chipperman
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You own one too many when the purchase of the last one pushes you into bankruptcy.
Greg L
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Too many is probably somewhere when the quantity reachews the high 5 figures or low 6 figures. Or when you need a roaming perimiter guard just to keep an eye on the place.
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As long as I can still fit in my house, I'm happy.
course I could always get a bigger house or go on a diet
course I could always get a bigger house or go on a diet
45R
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Try asking Uncle Sam's Military that question.
Kentucky Rifle
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I voted "yes"...
This is a hobby. You've still got to take care of your wife, children, house, cars...all that other stuff. I once knew a guy who got kinda "hooked" on a model train hobby. He spent WAYYYY too much money on "his" hobby. Incredibly, he allowed his model train hobby to ruin his life.
I thought hard about posting something like this. It sounds so...weird, I guess. There's more. It gets weirder and weirder. He got himself fired from a good job, but he started showing his wife his previous paycheck stubs and telling her he had made deposits. He just got up each morning and went out like he was going to work. His wife wrote checks for the bills. Naturally, he was caught in a few weeks. Then, weirdly, he told his wife of 20+ years that he just couldn't support her and the THREE children anymore, and walked out the door. The last time I saw him, he plumb IGNORED me. Even when I got right in his face and said "Hi"! It felt like I was invsible to him, even though I've known the man for over 10 years. So, I voted "yes".
KR
This is a hobby. You've still got to take care of your wife, children, house, cars...all that other stuff. I once knew a guy who got kinda "hooked" on a model train hobby. He spent WAYYYY too much money on "his" hobby. Incredibly, he allowed his model train hobby to ruin his life.
I thought hard about posting something like this. It sounds so...weird, I guess. There's more. It gets weirder and weirder. He got himself fired from a good job, but he started showing his wife his previous paycheck stubs and telling her he had made deposits. He just got up each morning and went out like he was going to work. His wife wrote checks for the bills. Naturally, he was caught in a few weeks. Then, weirdly, he told his wife of 20+ years that he just couldn't support her and the THREE children anymore, and walked out the door. The last time I saw him, he plumb IGNORED me. Even when I got right in his face and said "Hi"! It felt like I was invsible to him, even though I've known the man for over 10 years. So, I voted "yes".
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Two ways to define too many.
You can't close the door to your gun safe (or storage area).
Your platoon goes AWOL on you and you can't recruit.
Besides, by us owing all these guns, they aren't in the hands of criminals. So, it's our contribution to public safety.
You can't close the door to your gun safe (or storage area).
Your platoon goes AWOL on you and you can't recruit.
Besides, by us owing all these guns, they aren't in the hands of criminals. So, it's our contribution to public safety.
Chaz
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Wait a minute...
You can own too many firearms???
This thought frightens and confuses me
You can own too many firearms???
This thought frightens and confuses me
Grant
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No way you cant own to many guns or knives.
spacemanspiff
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its a trick question!
Zundfolge
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I said NO! ... Just don't ask my wife this question
PATH
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Kentucky Rifle,
That poor fellow sounds in need of some professional help. I hope he gets it. I love my guns but I would not allow it to get around to destroying my wife and family. All kidding aside it sounds like he is suffering from a mental illness. I hope it all works out for him. The trains may have just been a sign of what was to come.
That poor fellow sounds in need of some professional help. I hope he gets it. I love my guns but I would not allow it to get around to destroying my wife and family. All kidding aside it sounds like he is suffering from a mental illness. I hope it all works out for him. The trains may have just been a sign of what was to come.
Schuey2002
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I voted.. No!
Tamara is living proof of this..
Tamara is living proof of this..
kalibear45
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I want to have at least as many as my age but it seems like I'm getting older by the month these days 
but it seems like I'm getting older by the month these days Destructo6
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When you find guns in your safe that you didn't know you had.
That's my limit, anyway.
That's my limit, anyway.
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I consider too many when I feel obligated to practice and be proficient with them all, but have too many to do so.
I tend to think there are two broad archetypes. The first are the "collectors" or the "hoarders." These are the folks who start with just one firearm, and as their pursuit of what best suits them or simply piques their curiosity at the moment develops over time, rather than discard the older pieces to acquire the newer ones, they keep them. Whether this is done out of "practacality,""philosophy," or "sentimentality," doesn't matter. Some people just seem unable to let things go.
The other group, the one I tend to fall into are "minimalists" or "perfectionists." These folks are the "one pistol, one rifle, one shotgun" types. They too can burn through enormous sums of money, but they do it through cash+trades in a pursuit for what best suits their evolving "firearm philosophy." I went through Berettas, some 1911s, some various polymer pistols, some revolvers, and now only have a couple of 1911s. The pistol style hunt has ended, now I am trying to figure out who is going to build my "favorite 1911." However, a Glock 20 with full caps (if the ban sunsets) or a Para 10mm conversion is whispering to me. I went through a similar rifle cycle, settling on a CMP Garand I am restoring, but I still want an AR for a different niche. Right now I am going through a "magic sword" shotgun hunt. The one for folding knives seems to have ended with a Benchmade 710 Axis Lock. The fixed blade hunt ended with Busse Steel Heart II. I spend way more time and money searching for firearms I want to buy, (except the Garand I have never bought sight unseen), than I do on actual purchases. it took me two years and constant trips to various dealers while handling and field stripping over 40 pistols to buy just one Springfield Champion.
Ultimately, I will probably wind up with no more firearms than I could comfortably carry with one trip to the Jeep. I will never have more than me and my wife can carry in one trip.
Some people have 10 cars, some have two, even if they could afford 10. I guess that is how I am with firearms.
There is of course some overlap, but not too many people own five versions of the same vehicle, though it seems common among firearms owners to own multiple copies of the same firearm.
The other group, the one I tend to fall into are "minimalists" or "perfectionists." These folks are the "one pistol, one rifle, one shotgun" types. They too can burn through enormous sums of money, but they do it through cash+trades in a pursuit for what best suits their evolving "firearm philosophy." I went through Berettas, some 1911s, some various polymer pistols, some revolvers, and now only have a couple of 1911s. The pistol style hunt has ended, now I am trying to figure out who is going to build my "favorite 1911." However, a Glock 20 with full caps (if the ban sunsets) or a Para 10mm conversion is whispering to me. I went through a similar rifle cycle, settling on a CMP Garand I am restoring, but I still want an AR for a different niche. Right now I am going through a "magic sword" shotgun hunt. The one for folding knives seems to have ended with a Benchmade 710 Axis Lock. The fixed blade hunt ended with Busse Steel Heart II. I spend way more time and money searching for firearms I want to buy, (except the Garand I have never bought sight unseen), than I do on actual purchases. it took me two years and constant trips to various dealers while handling and field stripping over 40 pistols to buy just one Springfield Champion.
Ultimately, I will probably wind up with no more firearms than I could comfortably carry with one trip to the Jeep. I will never have more than me and my wife can carry in one trip.
Some people have 10 cars, some have two, even if they could afford 10. I guess that is how I am with firearms.
There is of course some overlap, but not too many people own five versions of the same vehicle, though it seems common among firearms owners to own multiple copies of the same firearm.
10-Ring
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You can't have too many, but you might reach a point where you don't get the same kind of benefit from them.
King
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You might own too many if you don't know that one or two are missing!!
Too many guns?....no way...
Too many guns?....no way...
Hkmp5sd
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NO
You can never have too many guns, too much ammo, too many friends, too many books or too much money.
You can never have too many guns, too much ammo, too many friends, too many books or too much money.
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