Can only have 3 guns

[larry_minn]

Get a new wife. UNLESS your gun hobby is taking money needed for kids, house/car payments/insurance........
If she comes with this ultamatum out of blue expect legal action soon. Does she only have 6pr of shoes? Out of all the things you buy. How many hold their value like firearms/ammo? (esp now) A USED AR is worth more then you paid NIB a decade ago. (unless abused).
Asking you to get it down till it fits in a 24 gun safe is more reasonable. (the guns not the ammo/accessories) I have a couple guns my father gave to me. I have one a relative gave to me when her husband died. Granted its a break open 16guage single shot... I still won't sell it. Someday I will find a person who NEEDS a gun/has no training/money and they will get it.
I didn't read other replies so I likely repeated info. Start taking invetory of valuables around house. (vidio camera one night when she is gone) Notice what is gone already/what disappears over next weeks.
Heck I would offer to take up smoking/drinking/loose women if it bothers her I have firearms.

 

[Lonestar.45]

Tell her she needs to narrow down her shoe collection to just three pair or jewelry collection to just three things, and see how that goes over.

I'd be getting rid of the wife first. Seriously. I have a lot of guns passed down to me from my Dad that I'm going to pass on to my son. If she made me narrow it down to just three I'd have to get rid of a lot of those (not to mention ALL of mine). No way would that happen. But then again, no way would my wife ask me to do that.

But I'll play, if I could only have three, I'd have the Colt Gunsite CCO 1911with .22 conversion (that still counts as one right?), Remington BDL in .270, and Remington 870 12 gauge.

 

[HexHead]

I'd just ignore her. They all think we don't listen to them anyway.

 

[hso]

Mighta been better to say you're being a responsible family guy instead of putting it on your wife for thinning the herd.

We have kids and at the time, needed the $$ for some other things. Maybe I should have left out the wife part in the OP! lol

Oh, wait, you did. A little late though since now you have all these strangers thinking that your wife is some wretched shrew that dictates to you and that you're somehow diminished by your relationship.

Lets hope she never reads this or you'd probably have something to really complain about. I'm sure you can explain to her that you were just joking (honest honey) around with the guys (80,000 strangers).

BTW, my wife owns 4 guns and only wants 2 more. subcompact pistol, compact pistol, AK-type, AR-type and wants a 30cal rifle and a full size pistol. As soon as she can pay for the others she'll get them. She'd probably give up one of the carbines, but since she carries one or the other pistol depending upon conditions those aren't likely to go.

As to what to have in a 3 gun set? If you don't carry you don't have to worry about a carry gun. If you don't hunt you don't have to worry about a hunting firearm. If you don't waterfowl you probably don't need a shotgun, unless you don't need a rifle because you use a shotgun with different barrels for geese and turkeys and deer. So, it kinda depends upon what you do with your guns. Or what your wife does with hers.

Let's remember that THR isn't a couples counseling site folks and who wears the pants in a family isn't our concern.

 

[Ala Dan]

If limited to only three (gosh, I hope that NEVER happens) this would be
my list:

1) Colt CAR-15 .223 Remington
2) Remington 12 gague 870 Marine Magnum
3) Les Baer 1911 Thunder Ranch Special

 

[sm]

Curmudgeon Mode

Folks,

Internet gun forums for some unknown reason are chocked full of threads asking if "you could only have <enter number> of guns".

-One has to be brutally honest with themselves.

a. Posting to rationalize buying a gun, or qualifying one already purchased.
b. Posting because they so want to be matriculated into the firearm community and by posting such threads, feel part of the community.
c. Posting to start a flame war or get the "fan boys" stirred up.

d. Posting because they sincerely would like to know, for a variety of good reasons.

i. guns need to be replaced due to fire, theft, or some other tragic event.
ii. finally able to purchase, and afford guns. For instance moving out of the parents home and rules, graduating college, inheritance...etc.


-Re:What guns?

One needs to be brutally honest as they access themselves and environments.

WE don't know if you live in a rural, semi rural, or urban setting, unless you tell us.
WE have no idea of your political flavor and any restrictions, unless you tell us.
WE have no idea if you hunt, and if so what, unless you tell us.
WE have no idea if you can CCW, and if you can, if you cannot carry into work, and therefore have to leave locked in your vehicle, unless you tell us.
WE don't know if a GF, Wife, Mom, Grandma, Teenager or anyone else in the setting may be called upon to use one of these guns, unless you tell us.

WE have a search function, so one can see what works for hunting out West in more open country, or down South in tight brush.

-Common Courtesy and Respect.

IF you do a search, then you have some starting points. Art Eatman for instance will not mind sharing his thoughts about a few rifles to fit your hunting needs.

Xavier Breath, will have no problem sharing his thoughts on CCW for hot humid climates, and some guns you have narrowed it down to, or have picked up being good choices from reading posts.

Members, "each one-teach one". These sincere posts are your opportunity to pass forward as passed to you.
It is not about you, instead the person asking.

It is not about 'fan boy' scores, or "us vs them", or "caliber wars", it is about accessing the member that asks, and assisting them in getting what you know, from experiences and observations, that work in situations such as theirs.

-Shifting blame and Sex Discrimination.

Responsible firearm ownership is about a whole lot more than guns.

There is no place for shifting blame to raise one's self esteem, and there damn sure is no place for bashing a member of the opposite sex.

Act Responsible, or forget about guns all together and take up golf, or tennis.


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[rbernie]

It is not about you, instead the person asking.

Best line of the thread, and well worth remembering.

 

[sixgunner455]

Well, we had a thread just a few weeks ago on the non-firearms weapons page talking about justifying buying more knives, and such conversations.

You mentioned several hobbies that cost some money. Yeah, you can cut down in most areas significantly, and still get the benefit/enjoyment out of them after all the thinning is done.

I would not be without a .22 -- simply for the fact that what I enjoy most about having guns is shooting them, and I can afford to shoot a .22 a whole bunch more than I can anything else.

Other than that, it's dependent upon what you use the things for. If you need a carry gun, then keep one. Jframe .38 does most needs just fine in a defensive pistol. Of course, there are others, but if I had to cut back that severely, I'd likely keep my 642, since I carry it every day. The rest of them, ah, I'd keep the shotgun so I could keep hunting birds, and at least one of the .22s, and I'd have a hard time picking what else to keep or sell because I don't have an extravagant collection. I'd want to keep most of them, honestly. I could thin out my .38 revolvers, sell my 9mm (ouch), and drop the SKS without crying at all, so there are guns I would be fine doing without in my safe.

If I had several Les Paul guitars, though, I could sell off all but one or two of them and get more money than what I have in my guns. Just a thought. If I was a gigging musician, I'd have to keep more than one, but if not -- three guitars is all I'd hang onto. 1 nice electric, 1 inexpensive classical, and 1 flat top -- 12 or 6 string. I teach several days a week with just that combination of guitars, and it covers things just fine.

Guns are easier to justify thinning out in some ways, since most of them just sit in the safe most of the time. Simple sound equipment, like what I have, gets used almost every day, and I make a little side money with it, so I can justify not thinking about thinning it out. In fact, I just bought another classical guitar so I can do duets with my daughter.

This is pretty far off topic, but if your needs are to thin out possessions for financial concerns, then you might want to look at other things in addition to the guns. To me, the instruments and sound equipment that are actually used should stay, but the rest of them - yeah, they'd go before I'd sell my AR.

Naturally, YMMV.

 

[Sauer Grapes]

Lone star 45, took the words out of my mouth. My wife has rings , bracelets and necklaces worth more than my guns.

 

[4Freedom]

My better half is my guns, I enjoy sound of my gun screaming than the old lady. If you had to choose between all your guns you had for so many years and a wife who would leave you if you did not obey her command to remove these guns which would u do? Perhaps this is for another thread