You might be a 'gun nut' if....

[Cliff47]

...you are greeted with 'HE'S BAAAACK' when you go to the range.

...you have a 'shopping list' of firearms to add to your collection in your wallet.

...you have woken up to the Men's/Women's Biathlon Relay the last two mornings during the winter Olympics from Torino

...you go to a gun show intending to purchase a holster for your latest acquisition, and while the vendor is unpacking, you find one of the items on your 'shopping list'.

...you can suggest an alternate holster for a friend's firearm, and it fits.

...while being fitted for a suit/sportcoat, you are asked how you are carrying this year (IWB, OWB, SOB, or crossdraw).

...you look at the Dodge Magnum and start mentally calculating how much it would haul to the range.

...you pass out gun show schedules rather than business cards.

...you set up a pistol from your collection for the daughter of a co-worker who is serving with the Marines in Iraq, and end up providing a range bag, magazines, ammunition, hearing protection and cleaning supplies before you are done. Dad wants to be adopted.

...you LIKE being a bad influence.

 

[McCall911]

You might be a 'gun nut' if....

...your aftershave smells suspciously like Hoppe's Number 9.

 

[sensei]

If you're at church and notice that opening hymn is #223 and closing hymn is #308 at the same meeting, and take it as a sign from above. This really happened to me.

Would that be

#223 Have I done any good Today

and

#308 Love One Another

been there, done that.

sensei

 

[Langenator]

...your 2 year old keeps saying "Daddy go to gun store."...and you actually went to work.

 

[Guy de Loimbard]

...Your dreams consist of telling your (non-CCWing) friends why they should CCW, and the dangers of not doing it.

I almost wish it was something I made up.

 

[Lennyjoe]

Does this qualify me as a gun nut?

 

[Rick O'Shea]

You're considering suicide, but won't shoot yourself because it'll give the anti's (and your family and co-workers) another reason to blame your guns...

 

[Eric F]

You're considering suicide, but won't shoot yourself because it'll give the anti's (and your family and co-workers) another reason to blame your guns...

I call foul on that one, bad forum............

 

[tacweapon]

Guilty

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...you buy all your pants at least one size larger to accommodate a CCW! Yep


...on at least one occasion you've waited until your wife was asleep or gone to bring a new gun into the house! Not Wife but yes to Parents or Brother

...you've ended, or have avoided, at least one friendship because of that friend's anti-gun statements and views! Sure have with 2 people

...you sign a letter or e-mail to someone with your 'forum name' rather than your given name!Almost but when proofreading I caught it


...you frequently turn off movies or other TV shows because you can't stand all of the improper and unsafe gun-handling!Sure do and get pissed at it when the shoot 50 rounds from a handgun without reloading

...if you don't get to the range or are able to shoot at least once a month you become depressed and irritable!Yea but it is more like at least once in 2 weeks and not only do I get depressed and irritable my trigger finger starts feeling weird

...intending to tick you off someone calls you a 'gun nut', but you laugh and consider it a badge of honor!!!!!It sure is

you might be a gun nut if you work a customer service counter and randomly spot calibers in the mess of numbers (price, change, lotto, etc) Yea when I used to work retail

You smile a little when you look at the clock and notice that the time is 2:43, 3:08, 3:57, 4:54, etc...Sure do

.......you go to buy a new car, and one of your primary concerns is how well your gun cases will fit in the trunk / back seat.Thats one of the reasons I have not bought a new vehicle yet

you might be a gun nut if you spend over half of your net income a year on firearms and ammunitionGuilty as Charged

If:

you wear (OWB, IWB or pocket) one (or more)
eat & drink with one (or more)
rest, nap & sleep with one (or more)
Yes Yes and Yes

if you are a member in more then 6 pro-gun forums 7 Actually

If you ever bought ammo in a caliber for which you have no gun, because
you thought some day you MIGHT get a gun in that caliber, you just be be
a gun nut.Sure have

If you pick up brass in calibers you don't shoot, just in caseI had 7000 casings of various calibers I could not reload

If you spend more on ammo each month than on food.Yep

If your guns are worth twice as much as your car.By Far

If you can't get enough of the History channel--Tales of the Gun marathons.I miss that show

...you have been asked to take down some Pro-Second Amendment bumper stickers at work, because your manager feels threatened.Yep I had a Desktop Wallpaper that had a picture of a Glock with a 35 round magazine that sound 35 for when there is not time for 911 and I work and 911

 

[revjen45]

Don't know how many guns you own without tallying them up.

And by the way... that's firearms enthusiast, not gun nut.

 

[Rick O'Shea]

I call foul on that one...

No, actually, I did have that thought.

Since I'm known as a "gun guy", and have an "arsenal" at home (a small collection of S&W revolvers, a couple of rifles and a shotgun...), there would be "I told you so..." comments flying right and left.
Then there'd be the local media....

Nope, the firearms community and the 2A movement just doesn't need that.

Anyway, my wife can't make it without my life insurance money (no payout for suicide), so I guess I'll just carry on....

 

[Superlite27]

You might be a 'gun nut' if....

....you've ever ordered a gun, then bought several hundred dollars of ammo and accessories for it to take home that day. Then, the next day, ordered more accessories, and bought stuff for the accessories that you ordered to go on the rifle you have ordered.......that won't arrive for several weeks.

 

[OOOXOOO]

You might be a gun nut if you paid more taxes for Form 4's than income tax.

 

[Cliff47]

You consider John Moses Browning a Higher Power.

 

[HANDLOADER]

If you got saves at the church wearing your gun range t shirt. THis on applies to me.

 

[BruceRDucer]

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You might be a gun nut if:

You say "WHAT?" every time someone speaks to you!

You use a MotoTool on your cleaning rods to refine their functioning.

Your household mutt is a Retriever

You swipe Rubber Maid food storage containers from the kitchen to stock your reloading parts.

You start collecting old gunsmithing books.

Everytime you and the Mrs go out, it involves a stop at Sportsman's Warehouse.

All the salesmen at the gun counter call you by your first name.

Your bathroom reading material is Gun Mags

You have enough Q-Tips to last several years.

You think Mobile One should come from the Gun Shop.

Your idea of a "family reunion" is a Dove Hunt.

The lady clerks at Sportsman's Warehouse tell you to "Get A Life!"

You sometimes pretend to be Billy Zane or Mark Wahlberg.

Your idea of a family movie is "Blackhawk Down"

 

[Haemon]

...You think Hoppe's No. 9 smells better than Chanel No. 5

 

[Loomis]

You might be a gun nut if...

You go to a gun shop you've never been to before, and instantly become buddies with the guy behind the counter and stand there yaking for more than an hour until your date gets grumpy and tells you it's time to go because the movie is about to start.

Oh...also...if you ever stop at a gun shop while on the way to a movie with your date...LOL

GUILTY!

 

[never_retreat]

When you drag out a 4 year old "you might be a gun nut thread"

 

[halfbreed808]

You dream of your next purchase; then the alarm goes off; and your cranky for the rest of the day because the dream seemed so real and your still $200 away.

 

[JohnnyOrygun]

You might be a gun nut if you buy a new gun and your wife catches you (didn't get prior written approval ) and you tell her you bought it for her.

You might be gun nut if you have more then one gun in your bedside nightstand, not counting the shotgun in the corner.

You might be a gun nut, if your wife bribes you to do things with the promise that you can buy a new gun.

You might be a gun nut if you have more tool boxes dedicated to gun stuff then used for keeping tools in.

 

[Catherine]

You might be one if you ASK for MORE ammunition and/or a gun book for a Christmas gift... you (Me!) get to pick out your own ammo and book!

You shop for GUN stuff more than clothes.

You pick out a nice Sears Tool Chest for your own gun STUFF - me! Your husband tells you that it was a different idea but a good one. Three of them in my life so far. Hers, his and joint - back east and here. Not talking about tool chests for household tools now.

You stock up on ammo sales and in bulk buying - me!

You ROTATE your own ammunition and HIS (Store bought and 'reloads'.) as you do your pantry food! Me!

You sell a gun as a package deal, you decide to be sentimental and keep your 'Glock' carry bag when you move out west because it would make a nice bag to hold your pretty, small, soft travel case for your small amount of jewelry since you kept what you actually wear. Meanwhile your guns, not counting the ammo for your move, outnumber ANY amount of jewelry that you kept or wanted to keep over the YEARS! You give your jewelry box to a close friend along with some jewelry. You do the same thing for your older sister and she thinks that you are nuts to get rid of jewelry but you keep your favorite GUNS! Yet she loves her GIFTS from YOU! You sell a couple of pieces that were gifts and did not use, if ever, to buy another gun.

You like western style belts/holsters even though it is considered old fashioned to many people - you wear them too!

You like plain shoulder holsters too.

You give a few guns to super close friends and pass on your Red Ryders to their grandchildren.

You share your sport with some close friends and others to expose them to the shooting sports, your guns, your range costs, your ammunition and time.

You like to take your coffee, a snack, go out on a rainy day in the mountains while your husband grouse hunts. You are supposed to look for grouse but you are too busy looking at the scenery or seeing a '7 bear day'! Later on you see grouse and he shoots them... you finally get used to seeing them 'dressed' and it does not bother you anymore. The deer and elk did not bother you but there is something about the 'feathers' and so forth... it is a bird thing. Later on... you ask him what GUN he wants for this grouse hunt. LOL When it is not grouse season... when you go with him... there are tons of grouse out. Ha ha.

You double check his hunting gun and GUN GEAR along with his snacks/water/coffee when it comes to elk and deer season. Sometimes you go and sometimes you stay home.

You encourage him to get his latest 45-70 or fill in the blank gun. Vice versa.

Your late husband encouraged you to buy whatever gun or guns you wanted because he did not trust ____ in politics. YOU agreed with him. Same with your new marriage... you might be a GUN lady or GUN man.

You start to buy more in GUN stuff than swim suits or boating stuff.

You travel with your guns and gun gear... you figure out what you want to take for such and such place.

You look for land and the real estate agents KNOW YOU both open carry plus the husband conceals carry too. They are NOT SPOOKED because you are in MT, ID or WY!

You 'chat' with some friends in politics and talk guns. You call into talk radio internet shows about gun issues, gun laws, and gun politics. Your politicos know you via telephone, email and/or snail mail when it comes to GUN issues and other issues.

Your late husband makes you target holders for real guns and for your Red Ryders too. You target shoot with your Red Ryder with coffee cans at the end of your rural driveway propped up. Ding, ding and ding! Your farmer neighbor, friends and late husband get a KICK out of that too.

You saved almost ALL of your paper targets for the first 2 years of you getting into shooting. YOU show your friends your targets and they put up with you!

You have some 'friends' think that you went nuts because... why do you need so many guns and why do this if you already can shoot one?! Ha ha!

Catherine

 

[nelson133]

You buy your q-tips at Sam's Club
You have a closed door meeting with your boss to teach him how to field strip and clean his new Kel-Tec P3-AT, that he bought based on your advice.
You offer to bring in the supplies to polish the feed ramp of said P3-AT during work hours and he agrees.
Everyone you work with has been offered a free range trip, and a number have taken you up on it.

 

[BruceRDucer]

You have a closed door meeting with your boss to teach him how to field strip and clean his new Kel-Tec P3-AT, that he bought based on your advice.---Nelson133

If you think a LEAD SLEAD has improved performance, with upwards of 50 pounds of lead...you might be a gun nut.

 

[ChCx2744]

halfbreed808

You dream of your next purchase; then the alarm goes off; and your cranky for the rest of the day because the dream seemed so real and your still $200 away.

DUDE! this morning i woke up to something similar. i dreamed that i finally bought the springfield xd-m 9mm and was blasting away with it when i heard a police unit siren...i woke up to my ring tone.