fastbolt
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Good luck with figuring out when enough is enough.
When I was a younger man I had simpler tastes and wants in firearms ... and the marketplace was a much simpler place.
As a young cop and firearms enthusiast with disposable income, I wanted lots of copies of the different handguns I liked.
Once I became a firearms instructor, and then started going to a bunch of armorer classes, I wanted an increasingly wider range of "working" guns in my safe. It didn't hurt that I was able to buy a lot of guns by taking advantage at reduced armorer program pricing after each armorer class & recert, either.
Nowadays? I've decided that I not only have enough, but probably too many. I could carry a different handgun with which I've trained & qualified every day, and not carry the same handgun twice in more than a month. That's doesn't count my target/range enjoyment handguns, either.
Now that I'm in my 60's, I just don't have as much desire to continue to accrue guns for "collecting" purpose.
I'm also less eager to keep all of them clean after using so many different guns when I'm working ranges. Having to help support and maintain some hundreds of other guns issued to, & owned by, other folks ... which can include having to deal with the results of neglect and the "cleaning practices" of other folks that borders on abuse ... I just don't enjoy cleaning my own guns as much as I did as a younger man.
When I was a younger man I had simpler tastes and wants in firearms ... and the marketplace was a much simpler place.
As a young cop and firearms enthusiast with disposable income, I wanted lots of copies of the different handguns I liked.
Once I became a firearms instructor, and then started going to a bunch of armorer classes, I wanted an increasingly wider range of "working" guns in my safe. It didn't hurt that I was able to buy a lot of guns by taking advantage at reduced armorer program pricing after each armorer class & recert, either.
Nowadays? I've decided that I not only have enough, but probably too many. I could carry a different handgun with which I've trained & qualified every day, and not carry the same handgun twice in more than a month. That's doesn't count my target/range enjoyment handguns, either.
Now that I'm in my 60's, I just don't have as much desire to continue to accrue guns for "collecting" purpose.
I'm also less eager to keep all of them clean after using so many different guns when I'm working ranges. Having to help support and maintain some hundreds of other guns issued to, & owned by, other folks ... which can include having to deal with the results of neglect and the "cleaning practices" of other folks that borders on abuse ... I just don't enjoy cleaning my own guns as much as I did as a younger man.