I'd feel that I had too many guns at about the same time that I thought I had too much money. In other words, never.

If there's any guns I have too many of, it's the legacy/heirloom pieces. I rarely if ever shoot them as I have moved on to other platforms and there's non-trivial sums of money tied up in them. Two are pistols my father bought me, one is a deer rifle he gave me.

If I went down to the guns I shot regularly, I'd get rid of everything except for some handguns. It'd generate a ludicrous amount of money, come to think of it. But then the buying cycle would restart.

Other than what Para said, I can't think of anything (within reason)that holds it's value as well. You will always have value in them.

For me they are all test subjects, I keep finding a gun I like and shoot better and the rest get tossed to the bottom of the pile. I see the money sitting there and sell them off kind of weird I know. right now I'm in love with my g45 Glock and my 365. Thinking of selling the rest, I don't need the money but why keep it? I sometimes hate this circle but when a new mouse trap comes along I have no choice. something about having a gun just sit there and collect dust bugs me.

I tried applying some of your comments to qualify a purchase on the last few handguns...then I laughed.

I did apply it on the last few purchases before buying them. The overwhelming answer was that I didn’t need it...but that don’t change the ‘but I still really want it and, at that price, it would be criminal to let it go!’ That was literally the last 6 hAndguns.....

I think I’m at 62 GLOCK’s. I’m trying to catch up some other makers now.

The gun market trend toward more and more polymer weaponry has assisted me in curtailing my purchases. I do own a couple but guns are meant to be metal. Polymer guns have no soul. The only guns that I look at are on the used market.

I have about 5 more to sell, 3 more to give to my son, 2 more to my son-in-law, 1 more to my daughter ...... and I'll be there.

I too, have owned literally hundreds and hundreds of guns over the decades, and I've finally narrowed it down to my absolute favorites, and the ones I LOVE to shoot. Pretty amazing ....

And a couple Sig Legion SAOs, black rifles, and .22LRs I don't have pics of yet.

I’ll let you know when I get there. I’m not there yet.

Not there yet but definitely buying more expensive guns so I feel like I need to upgrade my safe. Currently have as many Wilson Combats and PC revolvers as polymer guns so the paradigm has definitely shifted.

I had too many firearms until my boating accident on the snake river...

It's a little bit like a woman worrying about whether she has slept with too many guys. If she's still keeping count, she's probably not a whore.

How many is too many? No such thing.

It depends on what you want to do, and what your finances are like.

Any anti-firearm owner will say 1 is too many.

Firearm collectors won't bat an eye at 100-200. I know people with that many and it seems normal to them.

If it were 100 Glocks, or 100 ARs, that will strike a different chord than if it were 100 firearms, and 50-80 different makes/models/calibers.

I think most become less concerned if there is a noticeable variety of types/brands/calibers in the collection/accumulation.

I admit I am one who would be nervous if my neighbor John had 75 Glock G23 handguns. Yet, I would have no worries if he had 5 glocks of various models and calibers, a similar number of 1911s, or even more if half were true C&R collectibles [WWI issued, 1930s Issued, WWII issued, Korea issued, Vietnam issued, and then more modern ones].

It all depends on the person evaluating, and the way the number of firearms is accounted for.


But, that is only my opinion.