So How Many Different Types of Guns Are There?

[sparkyv]

Here's a few more I didn't see yet:
Range toy
Safe queen
Kit gun
Pizza gun. (I saw this on another post recently, but I don't know what it is. Do you?)

 

[whughett]

My Gun (s).

 

[Slamfire]

I've seen numerous terms used here, i.e., vacation guns, truck guns, woods guns, walking guns, tractor guns, and some others.

Aside from the typical hunting, target shooting, trap, self defense, what else ya' got?

To expand the market, industry has turned firearms into something similar to the fashion industry. What was in yesterday, is out today. Their are an infinite number of niches to fill.

 

[Jim Watson]

The one that gets me is "range gun." Too heavy to carry, not powerful enough to hunt with, and liable to get your inadequate marksmanship showed up in competition.

 

[Encoreman]

To expand the market, industry has turned firearms into something similar to the fashion industry

Yep who would have thought 20+ years ago we would have pink, blue, tan, a myriad of colors on a gun?? I have no issue with them, just wouldn't have thought we would see them. It may attract new gun owners. I like blue, SS and Camo.

 

[Spats McGee]

Guns I own.
Guns I want.

 

[Jim Watson]

I recall them from maybe 40 years ago.
High Standard finished Sentinel revolvers in pink, turquoise, and gold.
Remington offered the Model 572 pump .22 in Crow's Wing Black, Buckskin Gold, and Teal Wing Blue.

 

[TarDevil]

All my guns, 'cept one, are trained to multitask.
That one - a Bryco 48 - is an overachiever and does as it pleases.
My wife's shotgun, OTOH, is the Boss Gun.

 

[.308 Norma]

Oh, I just remembered another type - "Silhouette" (IHMSA) handguns - like my wife's 10.5" Ruger Super Silhouette, .44 Mag revolvers, and my 14" Remington XP-100 7mm IHMSA bolt-action, single shot. Either of those "Silhouette" handguns could be pressed into service for hunting I suppose, but why? They're huge, and as inconvenient to carry around as a rifle. Or at they're least as inconvenient to carry around as a short-barreled carbine. And a person would be well advised to never fire either one of those handguns without real good hearing protection.
After we quit shooting IHMSA, my wife sold one of her .44 Mag "Super Silhouettes," and had a 6" barrel installed on the other - to make it more "practical," she says. I can't even remember the last time I fired my XP-100 7mm IHMSA. It's the "Queen" of my Safe Queens.

 

[Dunross]

Jeez, you guys have forgotten one of the most common gun types that I'm sure a great many of you have owned for years.

The Project Gun. As in "this gun's a project it needs work, restoring, upgrading, whatever." Doesn't work and has laid around in your safe or gun cabinet for years.

Don't try to deny you don't have any!

 

[JR24]

All I have are handguns and rifles............

And shotguns (for me, though I haven't taken one of those out of the safe in some years).

 

[AK Hunter]

Just 2:

Guns I own, and guns I don't own.

Boy does that narrow it down! LOL

 

[lysanderxiii]

There are only two types of "guns" . . .

Those I have.

-and-

Those I want.

 

[FROGO207]

You guys forgot some.
Poodle shooter
Insurance/backup gun
Lunch box gun
Ole Bess
Tack driver

 

[Speedo66]

Anybody have a shower gun or a pajama gun?

I think I may have seen holsters for both. lol

 

[BigBore44]

Dream gun
Collectible gun
Grail gun
Elephant gun
Duck gun
Goose gun
Punt gun (similar to goose gun)
BB gun
Pellet gun
Potato gun
Starter gun
Smart gun
Heat gun
Glue gun
Blue gun
Chain gun
Main gun
Gatling gun
Spray gun

This could take awhile…..

 

[BigBore44]

Movie gun
Toy gun
Famous gun
Belly gun
Pocket gun
Dueling gun
Double gun
Drilling gun
Parade gun
Service gun
Long gun
Show gun
Evil black gun

Ok. I feel like I’ve sufficiently contributed now.

 

[CapnMac]

Let's not skip over "Gator gun" (either a very rusty single-shot .22 or snake-charmer in .410).

We may have skipped "Survival gun" (and it's cousin the SHTF gun; and redheaded stepchild, "bugout gun")

 

[mokin]

I've more or less got range toys and working guns. A whole lot more of the latter than the former.

 

[WheelGunMan]

I've seen numerous terms used here, i.e., vacation guns, truck guns, woods guns, walking guns, tractor guns, and some others.

Aside from the typical hunting, target shooting, trap, self defense, what else ya' got?

Just make up a category anytime you need a reason to purchase a new gun!!

 

[Dibbs]

Jeez, you guys have forgotten one of the most common gun types that I'm sure a great many of you have owned for years.

The Project Gun. As in "this gun's a project it needs work, restoring, upgrading, whatever." Doesn't work and has laid around in your safe or gun cabinet for years.

Don't try to deny you don't have any!

Yeah, see, I don't think "safe queens" and "project guns" deserve honorable mention, here. Sure, we all have them, but they don't serve us, unless you
consider being a tedious waste of resources a "service".

 

[CopperClad]

Ones that go bang, and ones that don't. The former are more fun.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Fishing guns.
Tackle box handgun for snakes or finishing off a big fish.
Also Clinch River, Southwest Virginia, has a special season for shooting fish (mostly carp I believe) using ifles that fire long heavy bullets (like .30-40 Krag 220 grain bullet) for penetration thru water..
High velocity rifle bullets just shatter when they impact water.

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

Wish I still had my cap guns from childhood.................

 

[Gus Chiggins]

Girl gun