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Does everyone like your guns?

niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
I just thought about this... I have a nice little collection, and no one but the missus and my 3 best friends know what I have. Heck, yall know more about what I have than most people I hang out with. God forbid I tell my parents. They were so anti gun that I wasn't allowed a water gun until I was 18!



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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah, that's the dilema. My collection is pretty good and it's taken me some time to aquire. But now that I have it I'm paranoid about letting too many people know I have this many guns. Mostly because I don't want someone whose less than an upstanding citizen finding out about them and then deciding they'd like to have my collection, if you know what I mean.
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Heck, all my gun friends won't stop buggin' me about my PSS. It holds good groups and everyone wants it. Since it's fiberglass and metal I think it's ugly as hell, but they still want it. I ought to get rid of it. I don't understand how folks overlook the pretty wood guns so they can pick up the "black monster" and fondle it. Some folks is weird I reckon.

    I don't worry much about theives because the safe is heavy, on a military base, and bolted to the floor with concrete anchor bolts.

    "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -Plato

    ~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets

    Edited by - will270win on 04/19/2002 07:57:45
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I know exactly what you mean. There are only a few close friends who have ever seen inside my safes. It's a sad state of affairs that you can't display such beautiful things out in the open. However I still get great enjoyment fondling them all by myself.

    HeHeHe

    "We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*

    **Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Hey guys if you're not happy I'll be glad to take em off your hands, Won't even charge you much.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Wipala, how much will you charge to haul off two bushmasters and one singleshot .223? I have been educated on the subject and decided I need to get this junk out of my house and buy a .50bmg for regualr hunting and an M60 for home defense.



    Edited by - 7mm nut on 04/19/2002 10:47:49
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    I don't know I usually deal only in the quality items ,(like Bryco , Jennings and Davis ) So let me ponder on it a while
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    I was hoping someone would pay me for the Remington, kinda like recycling. Guess I expect to much.

    "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -Plato

    ~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    I always assume that everyone would like my guns if they only knew about them. Well - everyone except Sarah and Rosie

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sarah Brady, Rosie O'Pig and Sweinstein love mine. They want them all.

    PC=BS
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  • DonldDonld Member Posts: 741 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Most of my colleagues and friends know that I'm a gun collector, and a few gently rib me a bit from time to time. I just smile and tell them that I only collect guns to impress girls.
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  • aby80aby80 Member Posts: 245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    None of my friends know how many guns or type of guns I own. My wife is the only person who knows what we have and where they are kept. My own grown children do not know what we have in the way of guns but do know we have some.
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  • dobieman0690dobieman0690 Member Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    remmber guys the guy with the most toys wins
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  • The LawThe Law Member Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Many and no one person knows what kind and how many.

    "What we have here... is Failure to Communicate"
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    Who said anything about friends....

    KIMBER: Pistol du jour
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    I have a pistol on my side at all times so everyone in the community knows about that one. The others stay locked up in a safe. I guess everyone that knows me, thinks I am a nut. That is what I want them to think.As far as I know we still live in a free society at least in my neck of the woods. I take full advandage of this.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have one close friend who is more like a brother than a buddy and my family has seen the collection. the problem is i am young and not ill and they are already making a list of what they want if something happens to me.
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  • skipjackoneskipjackone Member Posts: 208 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Several of my trusted friends know where I keep my firearms. But only me and the Mrs. know where the tripwire is.
    ...learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know; better stay away from copperhead row.
    Steve Earl
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  • martzkj@msn.commartzkj@msn.com Member Posts: 582 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The day I can't enjoy them when I want to is the day I sell them. If they can't be replaced they are in the safe. Otherwise thats what insurance is for.
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My mother in law was the most miserable unhappy human I have ever known. She was equal opportunity though, she hated everybody. I was her special enemy, I had guns, had hair on my face, wore cowboy boots and lived on a gravel road. (Real low life)

    I bought my brother in law a single shot 22 when he turned 14, it was the first gun ever in her house. Two weeks later my hen pecked father in law bought himself a 22 semi. auto. Needless to say that didn't make her love me any more. So I guess everyone didn't like my guns.

    ....................
    AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

    To the stars through difficulties
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  • BullzeyesDadBullzeyesDad Member Posts: 64 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I tried to do the right thing but always received opposition from my wife. So like any gun enthusast would care to adcheive is to make certain info unavailable to your sons and spouse/

    Bulldaddy
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  • austin247austin247 Member Posts: 375 ✭
    edited November -1
    My ex-wife didn't particularly care one way or another. My current flame though, came from a liberal family in Broward Co., Florida. When she moved in, she detested guns. She supported complete and total gun control. Her only concession was the fact that she knew I had to have at least some guns in the house due to my career. I still kept buying new ones, because I figured that with her being from Ft. Lauderdale, she wouldn't be able to keep an accurate count of what I did have in the house.

    All that changed about a year ago when she decided that if she were going to be in the house with firearms, she should at least learn how to shoot. After the first time we went to the range, she was hooked. Now she even buys ammo so we can spend more quality time at the range together. And when Christmas rolled around, she bought me that stainless mini-14 I had wanted for a long time and had never gotten around to getting.

    Now she's learned that there's a lot more to eat out there than chicken breast and steamed vegetables. She adores steak, Mexican food, chicken fried steak, and cornbread. And the other day I caught her listening to Willie Nelson on the radio.

    People can change. Sometimes.
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