Signs you spend too much on guns...

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The last gun you bought is worth more than your car.


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Guilty as charged...my van cost us 600...my Barrett....about 5k after scope...

course my truck cost 9k so I guess I'm ok
 
The City Police, County Mounties, State Troopers, local FBI, local office of Hameland Security, Department of Public Safety, the Game Warden, the CIA, INTERPOL, Mexican Federalies, Royal Canadian Mounted Police have you on speed dial incase they come across a gun that they didn't know about and want your knowledge of its history and origin.

You work at a place with a HAZMAT dock specificly so you can get ammo and components by the pallet.
 
When your local law enforcement agency contacts you to "borrow" bigger guns. (Not to me, but a friend of mine, they called on him for use of his bmg a few years ago for training purposes)

-John
 
If you purchase two boxes of ammo, for a caliber you don't shoot, because you want to some day, and the price hike hits in a few weeks.

If the day after you buy the boxes of ammo in the caliber you don't shoot, you buy a gun chambered in that caliber "because I had the bullets."

-Confessions of a gun nut
 
When you are selling stuff on Ebay so you can make your AMEX payment by the 6th because you just HAD to have that gun... :rolleyes:

Hope someone hits the buy it nows...
 
I realized I was spending too much on guns when midway started giving me free stuff whenever I complained. lyman hammer broke? here's $20 on the house. two boxes of 30 carbine bullets broke through the box and got lost in UPS? well, take three shipped on us. oh, did you not like our bipod? tell you what, just keep it and we'll credit the cost to your account.

I have spent enough at midway to have bought a pretty nice car - in just this past year.

oh, and for the folks who talk about how the gun shop has them on speed dial - I started trading work for an arms manufacturer so I could get free FFL transfers and gunsmithing. =)
 
True.

Fellow is divorced now from a really neat lady and two great young boys.

He spent his kids college money on guns. Over $100,000 set back by Maternal Grandparents - For starters.
He started out just shooting and having fun. Then had to have the latest greatest new gun, and equipment.
Then Custom guns. He spent over $40,000 in one year alone.


Another fellow inherited a house and truck, his share of the inheritance, and thought he would preserve this house and property , when time came for him to finish up college, and perhaps get married.

He met a girl, she expressed concerns on his obsession and she left him.
She paid attention and alerted family.
He was getting read to sell all this sentimental family land, house for guns and equipment.
He went from a $39 K mart .22rifle he been given one year as a kid, to over $70,000 worth of guns in just over 1 years time.
Credit Cards, out of College, all those offers and all- and went in way over his head.

He know longer is part of the family, not part of family business- disowned, and living elsewhere. He did not get to keep the truck either, sentimental and part of the family , history, and all.
 
When you read through the responses on this thread and 60% of them apply to you. Sigh.....

Or 80%... :eek:

You know you spend too much on guns when you sell back two weeks' worth of vacation that you were about to lose because you couldn't take it and buy a nice M1A loaded, an ARMS 180 mount and a Leupold scope for it. :uhoh:
 
You can recite all dimensions and technical data for every gun you own (and a bunch you don't) down to a thousandth of an inch, along with precise reloading data for every round of ammo you have, but you can't remember you wife's birthday or anniversary.

The UPS man is sick of carrying your heavy ORM-D marked packages.

You still practice trigger discipline and the 4 rules with cordless drills and soldering guns.
 
You know you buy too many guns when...................
UPS hires another driver so your driver can have someone help him carry your stuff to your house.:eek:

You call the brass makers like Remington or Starline and ask them to run off a batch of brass for a caliber they don't have listed and they say "We don't currently off that one but we'll get right on it." :D

When a major gun manufactuer working with the powder makers send you a keg of powder and all the other components and want you to test everything they sent you and send them a detailed report.:D
 
You know you spend too much on guns when........

You're reading this with a dialup connection because you downgraded from broadband to spend more on ammo.
 
When you get your wife to set up a $7k account just for you, and you blow through it so fast (30 days) that you can't remember what you bought with it. True story.
 
Your local gun shop gives you ammo instead of cash for change.

Your FFL preemptively sends in his paperwork when he sees an
auction that he knows you will bid on and win.

GunBroker.com paid for your high-speed internet so you could bid faster.

You work at Academy around Christmas so you can get a discount
on guns for gifts.
 
Instead of discarding them with the other junk mail you seriously read the transfer balance offers and convenience checks offered by credit card companies.
 
When you go into work the day after payday and the boss wants to know what new gun you bought and when he gets to shoot it.
 
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