What gun(s) are you currently hiding from the wife/gf?

None, I'm too old for that crap - gonna die soon enough - no time to play those games - don't apologize for being me anymore.

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I've reached that point too. First wife somewhat into guns etc, and as long as bills paid had no problem with it. Second's problem is 2 fold (like so many others) as long as she doesn't see it walk in she'd never know it was new. And, like first wife if we have the money no problem. Problem is our definitions of enough money vary. Heck, I have to urge her to go clothes shopping because we might need that money for ______. That we have an emergency fund fully stocked doesn't phase her when she gets into her we have no money mood. But, mostly she's ok with it as long as income exceeds outgo.

Best I can tell, the answers here fall into three categories:

1) I'm the boss. I can buy anything I want and the "little woman" has to suck up or leave the house.

2) What's the problem? My wife/GF likes or doesn't mind guns and it doesn't matter, even if the kids have to go hungry.

3) The wife doesn't like guns -- or hates guns -- and my gun purchases are on the sly, though I sometimes have to lie about them.

1) I'm the boss. I can buy anything I want and the "little woman" has to suck up or leave the house.

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Um, did you miss where I and many others specified that the finances have to be in order first.

Best I can tell, the answers here fall into three categories:

1) I'm the boss. I can buy anything I want and the "little woman" has to suck up or leave the house.

2) What's the problem? My wife/GF likes or doesn't mind guns and it doesn't matter, even if the kids have to go hungry.

3) The wife doesn't like guns -- or hates guns -- and my gun purchases are on the sly, though I sometimes have to lie about them.

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I haven't seen much of number two...

I think if you're hiding guns, or whatever else, from your wife she may need a new husband!

I think if you're hiding guns, or whatever else, from your wife she may need a new husband!

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Either that or I need another wife. Either way that's why I just don't bother anymore.

Well, uh, I"m fixing this for my buddy, I traded something for it, uh, oh THAT thing? Uh, had it for years, dontcha know. Wanna go out for dinner?

Wow you guys are buying guns and furniture? I thought people wised up to what is happening to the economy. We are going into a massive depression people. Save every dime you have.

I do not know whether it counts or not but I finally got enough guns where my wife can not keep track of them. I do not think she really cares. She still thinks I have 5 or 6 but I eclipsed that number long ago and I do not go out of my way to correct her when I bring other new gun home. I do keep a data base of my guns that she has access to if anything were to happen to me. Luckily so long as I can pay the bills she doesn't really care what I do with the rest of my money.

Absolutely NONE~!

Never really hid one... my gf is into shooting and goes with me to the range almost every time.

I did buy a RIA 1911 and a ciener .22 conversion. I had another 1911, and never told her about the 2nd one. She shot the new one with the conversion and just assumed it was my old 1911. Didn't figure it out until a month later when I was cleaning them in front of her all at once.

I keep hearing crap about I can't get another gun until I get her an engagement ring, but that was 3 or 4 guns ago.

Wow you guys are buying guns and furniture? I thought people wised up to what is happening to the economy. We are going into a massive depression people. Save every dime you have.

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Hmm... inflation and deflation will play havoc with the power of your dimes or dollars.

In most cases a quality firearm and to a lesser extent quality furniture will retain its value and even appreciate, and you have the added benefit of having a useful tool.

The original Colt SAA, one of the most common handguns during its era, appreciated more over the past 100 years than an ounce of gold.

My advice - buy as many guns as you can get away with! Good investment, your wife/kids can sell them if you go first. I think two or three hundred guns over a life time is a modest collection.

If you have a lot of guns before you get married it is a lot easier to slip one in here and there.

I also by silver and hide it!

As I stated earlier I was hiding an AR15 from my gf. She knows about that now.

But now I am hiding this from her.


a lot easier to hide than a rifle.

I 'hide' all of my polymer frame semiautomatics, pump shotguns, and black rifles (behind th more 'polite' guns in the safe. My wife is a bit of a gun snob (although she knows next to nothing about guns) and loves natural wood, engraving, and the classic lines of a good revolver or 1911. She collects pottery and furniture so I assume she thinks I collect guns for the same reasons. I don't dare correct her logic.

i just show up with a new gun and my girl just say " OMG another one? with a funny accent and a smile on her face... " she knows i like guns and she respect my hobby, same way i respect her 20/30 pair of shoes and 30-some purses...

My wife has no idea how many guns I have, even though I try and show/educate her about them all the time.

She's just not interested in them, except for her two pistols. She goes to some of the gun shows with me though, and if I leave the show without buying anything she says, "What's the matter honey, didn't you find anything you wanted?"

She loves me and knows I love collecting firearms, so that's all that matters to her...

It seems for me relationships come and go but all my firearms are forever. I have been with anti and pro females they all had some good points as I probably had some good points for them. Just not found one that's life partner material yet. Need to place an ad "Looking for good woman,needs to be a good cook/shot/reloader, also pretty and dedicated to mate. Must prefer potbellied old men that own guns. Apply with targets and gun at.........".

The only reason I have to hide guns from my wife is to keep her from shooting up all my ammo. She knows about them all, I just have to keep moving them like they're in the Witness Protection Program, lest she 'apprehend' them and I end up with boxes of empties.

i don't hide any from her, but i don't think she knows how many i have. she's interested in guns for personal protection and that's about it, but doesn't care how many i have.

why hide guns from wife?buy them fore her,then you dont have to hide them.

Don't really have to hide anything from the girlfriend. She will tell me I am going overboard every once in awhile and I just remind her that her clothing and shoe shopping goes overboard then and that seems to stop it.

I have a friend however who will hide some from his wife. If he is going to a show or the shop he just takes a empty case with him and says he is taking a rifle or pistol to be worked on. I always laughed about that one. I have also seen some guys in the store pay for part in cash then part on a card so it wont show up as big of a bill at the end of the month. Whatever it takes I guess.

Never hidden any guns from my wife. She knows what we have and where they are, even if she isn't into them as much as I am. She owns a few herself. We live on a tight budget so I don't often buy guns, neither does she, but when we can afford it we may decide it's time for a new one...then we get to argue over what to buy, not whether to buy.

My girlfriend can't tell the difference between a 1911 and a shotgun. She flat out doesn't care.