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How many is too many?

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December 15, 2018, 12:26 AM
sigspecops
How many is too many?
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.


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December 15, 2018, 10:32 AM
Rob Decker
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.


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December 15, 2018, 09:14 PM
patw
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.
December 16, 2018, 12:43 AM
XLT
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.
December 16, 2018, 11:28 AM
Beanhead
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.....
December 16, 2018, 12:00 PM
ruger357
I think I’m at 62 GLOCK’s. I’m trying to catch up some other makers now.


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December 16, 2018, 12:11 PM
Wolfpacker
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.
December 16, 2018, 01:33 PM
Benderx4
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 ....


December 16, 2018, 01:41 PM
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And a couple Sig Legion SAOs, black rifles, and .22LRs I don't have pics of yet.
December 16, 2018, 02:33 PM
bashman
I’ll let you know when I get there. I’m not there yet.


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December 16, 2018, 03:31 PM
derrickgoins
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.
December 16, 2018, 03:38 PM
sigmoid
I had too many firearms until my boating accident on the snake river...


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December 16, 2018, 05:50 PM
justjoe
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. Razz


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December 17, 2018, 06:03 PM
SheepdogIHSV
How many is too many? No such thing.


Luke 22:36
December 18, 2018, 01:01 AM
bczrx
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.


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