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Are You A Gun Junky?

4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
Do you skip lunch and save your lunch money so you can buy a new gun?

Do you day dream about your next gun purchase before you get your last one out of the box?

Do you clean them just so that you have a reason to hold them?

Is it impossible for you imagine yourself as ever having enouph guns and ammo to be sufficient to extinguish your desire to buy "just one more"?

yes,Yes,YES!

Don't worry, people who golf, especially the bad ones, never have enouph balls and their clubs are never good enouph...lol...


When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I done good for a while,but fell off the wagon again,when I bought a CZ 22 last week.It isnt like I dont already have enough 22s.


    Best!!

    Rugster
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Funny, I was just reading about the CZ52 and the 7.62x28 last night; intresting story.

    Yes, I resemble that remark... I'm a gun junkie, though I prefer the word enthusiast (!). I love the aesthetics, the design, the pride of ownership, just the way some people drool over Corvettes or Mopars or chopped hot rods. And yes, there will always be one more just coming within reach if only I want to spend a few more bucks.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WHOOPS, I thought you said "Are you're guns junky."

    Offeror, you have to have a CZ-52 they are a hard shooting fun economical gun.

    P.S. And yes I are one. "Gun junky"

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  • PearywPearyw Member Posts: 3,699
    edited November -1
    I have had this problem for 40 years and it doesn't seem to get any better with age. I get shakey if I dont' put holes in something on a regular basis.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like to tell the Mrs. that "I Don't think that I will buy any more guns for (a while)" Because it seems like when I do say something like that to her, that is when I will run into just the right deal on another toy that I have not had a chance to play with. Of course when I say that she looks at me like ya right.In answer to your question, Yup---gun junky for life.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • punchiepunchie Member Posts: 2,792 ✭
    edited November -1
    Like the time I brought my new 458 Win Mag in the house. Justified to the Mrs, "But Dear if there is ever a rabid rhinoceros in the neighborhood we will be prepared." I have absolutely NO reason to have this gun except it was real pretty and I happened to have the money in my pocket at the time.

    AN ARMED SOCIETY IS A POLITE SOCIETY
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Yes, yes, and yes! Someone understands me!!

    Save, research, then buy the best.Join the NRA, NOW!Teach them young, teach them safe, teach them forever, but most of all, teach them to VOTE!
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You know you are hooked bad when you find yourself standing on a freeway off ramp holding a sign saying (will work for guns)Or standing up in a room full of strangers saying(Hi my name is Bob,and i am a gunaholic)
    Dr.Evil
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  • gskyhawkgskyhawk Member Posts: 4,773
    edited November -1
    yup that sure sounds like me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • rameleni1rameleni1 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think everyone on this site has this problem. I currently own 5 firearms. I have bought around 10 or so in the last couple of years. I ended up selling or trading for something better, but still never happy. I have come up with a 1 gun a year plan. I will research, and find out what firearm I really want that year. When tax time comes around, use my return for the purchase. I have calculated that it costs me about 120.00 each time I go shooting for supplys, ammo, clays, etc. For that reason i'm sticking with the mainstream NATO calibers now.

    Rameleni1
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't even quite have one for every year I've been alive ... don't know what I'll do if they pass the "one a month" law ... how will I convince my wife to keep up?

    Junkie? ... nawwwww

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    Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!kimberkid@gunbroker.zzn.com
    If you really desire something, you'll find a way ?
    ? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to belong to the "Gun A Month Club".

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NO, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM !

    Now if you will excuse me I have to get back to the Gun Auctions.

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rameleni1 try reloading it helps a BUNCH.im a junkie i guess...always looking for my next one

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,RUSTY WALLACE FAN AND AS EVERYONE SO OFTEN POINTS OUT PISS POOR TYPIST e-mail:WNUNLEY@USIT.NET
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    Godandcountry- You hit it right on the head!! I just ordered a new 22-250, and I'm already looking at another .308.
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  • armed_ femalearmed_ female Member Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    gun junky??? NOT US!!
    Snarlgard and I just spent the entire day at the gun show...and we came home the proud "parents" of a colt 1991A commander...it sure is sweet!!!!!!
    But not I'm not a gun junky..unless of course you count getting a loan to pay off a credit card just so you can charge another gun on it...but no.....definitely not a gun junky.....

    Gun Control is Hitting Your Target!
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  • snarlgardsnarlgard Member Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ya but we sure had fun
    one gun
    one new gun case
    one new (to us )50cal ammo box
    14 new 30 rd ar15 mags

    A good day was had by all

    SMILE...MAKE EM WONDER WHAT YOUR UP TO
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  • n4thethrilln4thethrill Member Posts: 366 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I read about them Dream about them sleep with them clean them buy them shoot them repair them i even have a monthly shooting allowance and i am ashamed to say i go over quiet a bit

    i don't know if that makes me a junky or not

    you can be king or street sweeper but everyone is going to dance with the reaper
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hi my name is ccasey and I am a gun junky. In VA the state atha tI live you can only buy 1 gun per 30 days. I now have 6 months of guns tha I have to wait to pick up.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • sfettysfetty Member Posts: 349 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When my wife buys crafts ,jewlery or clothes I always equate the cost to either primers, powder, bullets, brass or a new gun. So many guns and so little time.
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  • TED GARTED GAR Member Posts: 389 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No I am not a gun junky. I dont have insomnia. I dont lose
    sleep at night, dreaming of the next gun, that I am going
    to buy. My finger just itches, so I buy guns so I try out
    new triggers, to ease the itch, and not to mention,
    all those pens, filling out paperwork, on a newly purchased
    firearm, that tends to ease the itch on my trigger finger too.
    GUN JUNKY, NOT ME...
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  • WheelgunWheelgun Member Posts: 149 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Skip lunch and save lunch money?

    You're kidding, right? WHAT lunch money??? Hell, I haven't had lunch in years![xx)] And I've got the guns to prove it....

    Gun Junkie? Hmmm.... Maybe I need help..... Yup, that's it, I'm goin' over to the GB auctions and get my fix...



    Wheelgun
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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Of course not i am little mad you would even ask me this ...Geez what's the world coming to ....YES of course i am i think everyone here is lol

    Harleeman1030@aol.com
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I told my theripist about my obsession with firearms, and I think rather than comming up with a solution, I talked him into joining the dark side...

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • hillbillyhippiechichillbillyhippiechic Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Unless you're me...I don't have any lunch money to save. We already scrimp at everything. I've been saving my $50 for my concealed permit since May, and I think I'll have it by October. Then I have to figure out which gun I want to carry and start saving for that. It'll probably be a couple years before I can get it................but I'll get it. I do go shooting every chance I get and I do dream about guns all the time, though.......could I be a junky?!?

    PEACE..., through superior firepower.
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  • FatWoodDogFatWoodDog Member Posts: 90 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    According to my wife -- YYYYYEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!

    According to me: No! (...but WORKING on it)

    FatWoodDog

    Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice, Doggie..."until you find a Rock!!
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  • homer4homer4 Member Posts: 128 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm in the league with FatWood Dog...Ol' Meantome accuses me all the time.

    "...Abby someone""Abby who"..."Abby Normal"
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm an INVESTOR! Umm, yeah, that's it. And also a COLLECTOR! Yeah, that too. And, uh, uh, okay okay...

    YES I AM A GUN ADDICT!





    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
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  • bama55bama55 Member Posts: 6,389 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not as bad as I have been in the past. Just haven't
    come across anything better than what I have. Although there
    are a few more I would like to get. Hummm......Could be because I
    am broke all the time. I better start
    looking for a job.

    Don't send flowers when I die. Send money now, I can buy more ammo.
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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, since firearm rehab, (twice), I have only bought several per year. I would say that makes me, "in recovery". The lil' lady calls it an obsession, so I am obsessive, you guys are junkies.

    A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,474 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I only buy new guns, ammo, etc to do my part to boost the economy. At least it sounds noble right....

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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