Who are you?
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I'm leading the wave of freedom loving, gun owning refugees from California to free states, in my case Texas. Decided to sell my house, take a new job (another IT geek, UNIX is my specialty, everything else is just work), uproot the wife and dogs (pit bull and GSD), and get back to living in the country (grew up in Nebraska/Colorado) after serving my ten years with Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.
I'm almost 30, no kids (except aforementioned spoiled mutts), a beautiful wife, and zero debts (sell a tract house in California, buy 5 acres and a bigger house in Texas with money left over, think about it, my California comrades). I'm a blacksmithing hobbyist, decent welder, and novice brewer.
I shoot an M1A and a Savage 10FP .308 (amazing how much fun accurate guns are after years with a Mini-14 and an SKS) and I'm working on getting an AR-10.
Also, I've learned much from all you High Roaders, and feel like this is a real community, thank you all.
I'm almost 30, no kids (except aforementioned spoiled mutts), a beautiful wife, and zero debts (sell a tract house in California, buy 5 acres and a bigger house in Texas with money left over, think about it, my California comrades). I'm a blacksmithing hobbyist, decent welder, and novice brewer.
I shoot an M1A and a Savage 10FP .308 (amazing how much fun accurate guns are after years with a Mini-14 and an SKS) and I'm working on getting an AR-10.
Also, I've learned much from all you High Roaders, and feel like this is a real community, thank you all.
LSCurrier
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Male / 40 / Sales Engineer / Married with 14 year old daughter
My wife feels that I have more guns than I need. I feel I have less guns than I want.
Luke
My wife feels that I have more guns than I need. I feel I have less guns than I want.
Luke
I'm 42 married with two boys(10 and 15) i'm a security officer at a nuke plant, wife is a sheet metal/insulator at the plant. Nice collection, a couple of 1911s(duhh)couple of M44s, M-1 Garand(ping baby!! 
)M-1 carbine and others
)M-1 carbine and othersAge - 49
Married - 22 years
Kids - 0
Dogs - 2
Pistols acquired in last 12 months - 7
Mechanical Engineer - 25 years
IT Director - 12 years
Love of my life - Christine (see line 2 above)
Passion of my life - 2002 WS6, RamAir TransAM
Married - 22 years
Kids - 0
Dogs - 2
Pistols acquired in last 12 months - 7
Mechanical Engineer - 25 years
IT Director - 12 years
Love of my life - Christine (see line 2 above)
Passion of my life - 2002 WS6, RamAir TransAM
williamcrane
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Who Are You? Who? Who?
Dept: DoD
Agency: DLA
56 (57 in 4-05)
Own 22 firearms
Load all my handgun ammo; rifle ammo I buy.
Vietnam Veteran.
1 Dog, 2 Cats.
Wife of 24 years.
4 bicycles (2 mine, 2 wife's)
2 Daughters (both living on their own)
Dept: DoD
Agency: DLA
56 (57 in 4-05)
Own 22 firearms
Load all my handgun ammo; rifle ammo I buy.
Vietnam Veteran.
1 Dog, 2 Cats.
Wife of 24 years.
4 bicycles (2 mine, 2 wife's)
2 Daughters (both living on their own)
Sir Aardvark
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Male / 37 Y.O. / Married
Until the beginning of this month I was an FFL dealer - so guns were CHEAP.
My real job employs me in a hospital and it pays quite well.
My wife also has a good job and doesn't mind if I spend her money too.
Until the beginning of this month I was an FFL dealer - so guns were CHEAP.
My real job employs me in a hospital and it pays quite well.
My wife also has a good job and doesn't mind if I spend her money too.
Married, 36yrs old two boys (11yr old and 2yr old), work for united healthcare in the customer service area, and on the weekends at local Sams Club, going back to school to be nurse(2 more years!!!) as I got laid off twice from two different mutual fund companies here in KC....
Guns well...I have my own collection and I inherited my all my dads guns when he passed away on January 18th this year.....so I have a liberty safe full of goodies....
John
Guns well...I have my own collection and I inherited my all my dads guns when he passed away on January 18th this year.....so I have a liberty safe full of goodies....
John
joeyt
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Who I am
I am a 67 year old retired guy who owns too many toys already, but that doesn't stop me when something catches my fancy. I spent 36 years on outside repairs in the vending trade. I was the guy they sent when your Juke Box or your pin ball machine didn't work.It was very interesting work,but it got harder and harder to get around due to Arthritis. I have been retired for 2 years and if I'm not playing golf I am out shooting. I belong to a nice gun club with 24/7 access with a good assortment of ranges. What a great country! JoeyT
I am a 67 year old retired guy who owns too many toys already, but that doesn't stop me when something catches my fancy. I spent 36 years on outside repairs in the vending trade. I was the guy they sent when your Juke Box or your pin ball machine didn't work.It was very interesting work,but it got harder and harder to get around due to Arthritis. I have been retired for 2 years and if I'm not playing golf I am out shooting. I belong to a nice gun club with 24/7 access with a good assortment of ranges. What a great country! JoeyT
54 year-old decrepit guy
1 Sweetie love of my life even if she is an attorney
No kids
Television producer specializing in firearms-related shows
1 13-inch beagle — Alf the Wonder Dog
3 parrots (1 grey, Ripley--who is King of the World, a B&G macaw, Cleo and Bishop, a green-wing macaw)
4 goldfish ($17 worth of fish living over a $1000 German-engineered sewage treatment plant)
1 Honda Element retro-SUV I'm going to have painted electric yellow
Active competition shooter (cowboy/Modern class/Ruger .44 Blackhawks/Marlin Cowboy .44/1903 vintage 1897 Winchester 12-gauge; IDPA/Enhanced Service Pistol/Para-Ordnance LDA-18 9mm/Blade-tech vertical belt holster; USPSA/Production/Para LDA 9mm/extremely cool Cen-Dex "Ice" clear plastic holster)
Far too many guns
Newest gun (I can't wait!) is a custom-build BSA Martini Cadet single shot rifle in .357 Magnum from Vic Samuel
Am presently building a robot insect because it's too cold to shoot
Avid bicyclist (Death Ride-Tour of the California Alps; Triple Bypass 3-pass mountain ride, Colorado; Cross-Florida one day ride; numerous centuries, etc).
One time serious/now too fat triathlete (3X finisher at Alcatraz Triathlon..."funny, I don't see any sharks...")
Climbed Mt. McKinley in 1995; volcano Pico de Orizaba in Mexico in 1998
Sometime scuba diver, certified full cave/mixed gas/deep air
Black belt in tang soo do; firearms instructor; Martial Bladecraft knife training
Sound cooler on paper than I actually am in person!!!!!
1 Sweetie love of my life even if she is an attorney
No kids
Television producer specializing in firearms-related shows
1 13-inch beagle — Alf the Wonder Dog
3 parrots (1 grey, Ripley--who is King of the World, a B&G macaw, Cleo and Bishop, a green-wing macaw)
4 goldfish ($17 worth of fish living over a $1000 German-engineered sewage treatment plant)
1 Honda Element retro-SUV I'm going to have painted electric yellow
Active competition shooter (cowboy/Modern class/Ruger .44 Blackhawks/Marlin Cowboy .44/1903 vintage 1897 Winchester 12-gauge; IDPA/Enhanced Service Pistol/Para-Ordnance LDA-18 9mm/Blade-tech vertical belt holster; USPSA/Production/Para LDA 9mm/extremely cool Cen-Dex "Ice" clear plastic holster)
Far too many guns
Newest gun (I can't wait!) is a custom-build BSA Martini Cadet single shot rifle in .357 Magnum from Vic Samuel
Am presently building a robot insect because it's too cold to shoot
Avid bicyclist (Death Ride-Tour of the California Alps; Triple Bypass 3-pass mountain ride, Colorado; Cross-Florida one day ride; numerous centuries, etc).
One time serious/now too fat triathlete (3X finisher at Alcatraz Triathlon..."funny, I don't see any sharks...")
Climbed Mt. McKinley in 1995; volcano Pico de Orizaba in Mexico in 1998
Sometime scuba diver, certified full cave/mixed gas/deep air
Black belt in tang soo do; firearms instructor; Martial Bladecraft knife training
Sound cooler on paper than I actually am in person!!!!!
Ancient Mariner
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Retired Navy, submarine officer, 68 years young. Live on an island in the Columbia River 38 miles from the ocean. Six adult kids between my wife and I.
Anybody bored enough to make some statistics outta this post?
Me, I'm 29 next week, married (to a mild anti), 2 month old kid at home. Living in Seattle, working an office job at a University, thinking about trying out for the Police Department this Spring.
Edited to add:
2nd business/hobby includes running a small prop weapons rental business and doing fight choreography/instruction for independent films and theatres. Fake guns outnumber real guns in my house, about 100 to 1. Perhaps someday that will change... or maybe the ratio will stay and the numbers will change...
Me, I'm 29 next week, married (to a mild anti), 2 month old kid at home. Living in Seattle, working an office job at a University, thinking about trying out for the Police Department this Spring.
Edited to add:
2nd business/hobby includes running a small prop weapons rental business and doing fight choreography/instruction for independent films and theatres. Fake guns outnumber real guns in my house, about 100 to 1. Perhaps someday that will change... or maybe the ratio will stay and the numbers will change...
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TRK2AJK
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after reading all of these, i had to respond
36 y.o. mwm
army veteran
work at local veterans hospital
married 17yrs
4 wonderful kids, 2 of each
3 chihuahuas :banghead:
i inherited my infatuation with firearms from my father, we shoot every
chance we get.
my salary goes to bills, but my second job salary goes in my safe.
have recently joined an outdoor range, so i have been buying 22lr firearms
lately.
i drive a suzuki samurai to work every day for the last 5 years
36 y.o. mwm
army veteran
work at local veterans hospital
married 17yrs
4 wonderful kids, 2 of each
3 chihuahuas :banghead:
i inherited my infatuation with firearms from my father, we shoot every
chance we get.
my salary goes to bills, but my second job salary goes in my safe.
have recently joined an outdoor range, so i have been buying 22lr firearms
lately.
i drive a suzuki samurai to work every day for the last 5 years
CleverName
Member
18 y.o.
Chinese-American (don't get on my back for being a hyphenated-American, this is the best term I can think of right now.)
College student - Materials Engineering. Probably master's later, maybe PhD?
NOT rich, but I wouldn't mind being rich.
No kids, no GF. Maybe someday.
I guess the only gun that could legitimately be "mine" is a M1A.
2 midterms this week.
Still missing a textbook for one of the classes w/ the midterm.
Chinese-American (don't get on my back for being a hyphenated-American, this is the best term I can think of right now.)
College student - Materials Engineering. Probably master's later, maybe PhD?
NOT rich, but I wouldn't mind being rich.
No kids, no GF. Maybe someday.
I guess the only gun that could legitimately be "mine" is a M1A.
2 midterms this week.
Still missing a textbook for one of the classes w/ the midterm.
About me
Didn't know so many computer people were interested in guns. Maybe the rest just put their money into guns, not computers.
66 in a few months, retired truck manufacturing troubleshooter and specs analyst, married 46 years next months to the same great lady. Two kids, one of each , grown, 6 grandkids, 3 of each, 3 by marriage.
Thinking of a part time job to buy guns, reloading and decorate a home. Don't hate getting older but hate not being able to do what I could when I was younger.
Blessings to all of the service people, both Military and LE.
Didn't know so many computer people were interested in guns. Maybe the rest just put their money into guns, not computers.
66 in a few months, retired truck manufacturing troubleshooter and specs analyst, married 46 years next months to the same great lady. Two kids, one of each , grown, 6 grandkids, 3 of each, 3 by marriage.
Thinking of a part time job to buy guns, reloading and decorate a home. Don't hate getting older but hate not being able to do what I could when I was younger.
Blessings to all of the service people, both Military and LE.
bill2
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50 yrs old
white, married
Army veteran from the 70's
live in the bay area no CAL.
I own one AR-15, one Benelli M1 12 ga., 2 old .22 rifles I inherited, one really old db 12 ga shotgun, and 3 pistols. nowhere near enough.
software consultant
white, married
Army veteran from the 70's
live in the bay area no CAL.
I own one AR-15, one Benelli M1 12 ga., 2 old .22 rifles I inherited, one really old db 12 ga shotgun, and 3 pistols. nowhere near enough.
software consultant
Old NFO
Member
Decrepit 53 year old...
Retired Navy Mustang (Vietnam Vet) 10,800 flight hours in a variety of Navy acft
Now working for Office of Naval Research as a program manager in advanced developments. Travel about 150 days a year world-wide
Live in Arlington, VA; my "retirement" house is in SC (with a healthy mortgage)
Divorced, two grown daughters and 1 six year old grandson
GF is active duty Navy, likes to shoot too!
No animals (
apartments)
Drive a hot rodded Impala SS
"Almost" too many guns (especially when I have to clean 'em all)
Shoot IDPA, USPSA and 3-gun where ever I can
Retired Navy Mustang (Vietnam Vet) 10,800 flight hours in a variety of Navy acft
Now working for Office of Naval Research as a program manager in advanced developments. Travel about 150 days a year world-wide
Live in Arlington, VA; my "retirement" house is in SC (with a healthy mortgage)
Divorced, two grown daughters and 1 six year old grandson
GF is active duty Navy, likes to shoot too!
No animals (
apartments)Drive a hot rodded Impala SS
"Almost" too many guns (especially when I have to clean 'em all)
Shoot IDPA, USPSA and 3-gun where ever I can
buffdriver
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Single 31 y.o. USAF pilot, part-time flight instructor
1 Kona MTB (LX/XT)
1 truck
4 pistols
2 rifles
1 mortgage
1 Kona MTB (LX/XT)
1 truck
4 pistols
2 rifles
1 mortgage
jlwatts3
Member
23
Research Director at small startup company
UC Berkelely grad with BA in poli sci
Have girlfriend (4 yrs)
Research Director at small startup company
UC Berkelely grad with BA in poli sci
Have girlfriend (4 yrs)
Wow, I'm the third youngest person here at 17, of course I did sign up when I was 16. Right now I'm the assistant manager of the IT department at a medium sized telemarketing company. Currently single, but there is that nice girl at work who I think keeps checking me out...
Got 11 various rifles and pistols, which I think is pretty good for someone my age, although 3 of those are my dad's. Most recent purchase was a private sale from my neighbor, mint condition NHM-91, and now all my money is going into my M4gery. I'm somewhat of the resident gun nut in the circle of people I know, I've got a couple people lined up with AR-15 parts for me to work on, and the school security guard is getting my help in choosing a sidearm(for a differant job) and rig to carry it with. Sorry if that was a little long-winded, but I'm a bit proud of my hobby
Got 11 various rifles and pistols, which I think is pretty good for someone my age, although 3 of those are my dad's. Most recent purchase was a private sale from my neighbor, mint condition NHM-91, and now all my money is going into my M4gery. I'm somewhat of the resident gun nut in the circle of people I know, I've got a couple people lined up with AR-15 parts for me to work on, and the school security guard is getting my help in choosing a sidearm(for a differant job) and rig to carry it with. Sorry if that was a little long-winded, but I'm a bit proud of my hobby
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