What gun(s) are you currently hiding from the wife/gf?

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If I were to hide them from her it would only be to keep her from taking them to the range and shooting up all my ammo while im at work. I talked her into shooting the AR and now she has the fever.
 
If I come home with another (yet another) gun, the first thing out of her mouth is "ooooh, what did you find? Lemme see it. What kind is it?" She is my best and only hunting (and fishing) partner. She is supportive of my shooting and I am supportive of her golf! We have had a great relationship for 38 years and I have never needed to hide anything from her or lie about anything. Cant imagine having to live by lying.
 
I don't hide them, I just don't talk about them UNLESS it is a .45 ACP. She loves to shoot .45 ACP. It is weird, but she just doesn't care about the others. The first and only shotgun she ever fired was my little .410. We were shooting cans and such in a pit. After pulling the trigger, she said, "That's it? I want it (the can) to explode. Get the .45!"
 
I'm in the don't lie catagory, I'm not smart enough to keep track, LOL. I don't always bring it up to her that I've bought another and when a new piece of furniture or what not shows up I don't say anything disparaging about it. This has worked for quite a while for us. We've been together for 36+ years, when we were young and money was more of an issue things were different, guns were purchased with her blessing. Gotta keep'em happy.
 
Here is the deal. As long as I buy "black pistols" and 'black rifles' my wife thinks I just have a couple of guns. The others I sneak into the house.
 
My wife and I have our own money. We split food, utility bills and the house payment. I also pay off my Visa every month that I use for small purchases only. I have a motto that you can't afford it until you have the cash. We have no other bills or payments for cars etc. We each have our own bank accounts. We don't have money issues between each other so we never have an argument over money which is one of the most common reasons for divorces.
However last Xmas was the first Xmas she didn't get some jewelry and a bunch of other stuff. I got her an inexpensive laptop and nothing else because we are both laid off and that's what she wanted. So there is no reason to hide anything from one another. I would get a guilty conscience if I were to spend most of our expendable money and would likely make sure she got the majority.
 
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My wife taught me to shoot. I don't hide guns from her. She goes with me when I buy them.
 
My wife has been given the combination to my safe numerous times, she still can't get in. That being said I don't tell her everytime I buy something, I usually just put it in the safe. If she notices a new one she doesn't say anything. I have in the past when money was bit tighter, hid them in plain view. I kept a few in the closet and just rotated new ones in and the older ones out, she never did notice.
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I have given my wife the combination, showed her how to open the safe and she will not do so, nor does she try to remember the combination.

We have been married 38 years now, and she know this is my hobby and supports it. We were in another nearby town today and I visited a gunshop I had heard about . Her only comment before I went in was if I saw anything I wanted or needed to get it, if I could find a place for it.
 
I gave up on hiding stuff. I bought a marlin 995 without asking permission, I got in trouble not because I bought the gun but because dicks had a marlin 795 on sale for the same price.
 
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I dont ask where the shoes come from and she doesn't ask about the guns, usually. I will admit that ocasionally I choose not to walk by her with a new purchase while shes balancing the checkbook :evil:

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I, too, split the bills with my wife. Separate checking accounts, I pay my bills, she pays hers. Anything left over can be spent for whatever.

I came home Sunday with a revolver in hand. I said: "Guess where I've been?" Her response: " Was there a gun show today?"

She buys her stuff, I buy mine. It's that simple.
 
Mine's too smart...

She figured out they each have their own numbers and checks them against my register....I knew I married way over my head but talk about attention to detail! Thankfully, the last time she looked at it she suggested I go ahead and fill out the next column to "balance things out", so.........looking for 4 or 5 more in the near future!
 
My wife doesn't particularly like guns but doesn't actually prohibit them. So I buy them and just don't mention them unless she asks. I go to the range and haul guns in cases in and out and she just doesn't pay much attention to it, which is the way she likes it. Fine with me.
 
Ive bought a few guns the wife knows nothing about. She's being informed on a need to know basis. I don't feel she needs to know until I'm prepared to teach her to fire that particular weapon. lol























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I would say if you have to buy your guns in secret and hide them from your wife after you've bought them, you have bigger problems than hiding guns from your wife.
 
First thing I do when I get a new one is get all excited about showing her, and she is always happy for me. When we met she was very much anti-gun, given the media, television, movies and her past history. One of her family members had a bad run-in. But she says I opened up her eyes into a whole other side of the issue with my personal philosophies, safety habits, genuine interest and showed her how fun and rewarding it can be.

She is now a damn fine shooter, and can handle anything I throw at her. Believe it or not, she prefers the .44 magnum over everything else. Although she claimed my model 29 as her own. We'll see...
 
If my wife knew I have an AK, she'd freak. She is an anti of the stripe that thinks that any semi-auto weapon is an "assault rifle." It's better that she thinks I have a couple of .22s (I do) and a bolt target gun (which I will, soon).
 
As a side note, my fiancee is looking into getting a Ruger LCP or something similarly tiny to carry.

It must be hard being as small as her, to hide anything.
 
Wow, either I'm doing something right or I must have a fantastic wife .....

She bought me my AR-15 as an early Christmas gift, did the FFL transfer for my M1C cuz I'm in Iraq, and at one point early on in our lives I sold one of my guns to a pawn shop only for her to buy it back for me.

Not only do I not have to hide them from her, but I take her shooting as often as I can. She really enjoys it and the freedom of knowing if she needs to defend herself or our boys she can.

It must be just her being fantastic .... God knows I need more than my fair share of help in the "being right" department.


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I was wondering if a pic of me holding my AR-15 and my S&W M&P 45 on my hip would be a decent enough for e-harmony? After all, I should just get it out right in the open, so I don't have to post sad threads like this, 15 years down the line... :uhoh:
 
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