When I was 21, I wanted to have a vast collection with many different kinds of firearms. I felt like I had to own all the different representative models that were timeless and classic. Of course, I couldn't afford all of those brands so I spent a lot of time dreaming about this wonderful collection. Over the years, I have bought some. I have shot a lot of different things that friends of had. I have also sold some of the ones that I shot certain joy but no longer felt the need to own. Now that I am 47, The only firearms that interest me are the ones that I will actually use on a regular basis. As such, I need to have a shotgun because I take that out almost every week to go shooting. It is mostly for shooting in a trap league. However, I do take a certain number of self-defense classes with it and it is the weapon of choice to defend the home. I have hunted with it as well, and in general I just enjoy shooting it. So for sure, I would need to own a least a shotgun. But to be honest, there a few other things I would really feel like I should own. I should have a pistol of some kind so I could conceal carry and have a back up farm when I am out hunting etc. Also I feel like I should have to conserve rifles. One kind of rifle should be either a bolt relive her action so that I could go hunting. The other kind of rifle I should have should be some sort of semi auto magazine said Rifle so that if I needed to use one to defend myself, I have something. If I were going to go deeper I would want to either duplicates or triplicates of a small collection. That way if one breaks, I have a back up and I still have an extra one laying around. Also, in doing this I know longer have to worry about the whims in fancy of the government regarding what I would own. I would have my collection, and enough of them so that I would never ever have to worry about purchasing again. Obviously, I will get enough magazines and spare parts so that I am pretty much independent of having to get anything else. Of course, I would want to get a good supply of ammo just so that I don't have to worry about the Fluctuations of what is available. So I've gone from them early 20s wanting to have a lot of different things now I really only having maybe four or five different kinds of firearms and then having to put kids as a backup in case something breaks and I no longer need to worry about being without.
