Guns per Year - What was your year of the gun?

[huntsman]

3 in 2020, I blame covid and online buying

 

[Demi-human]

I have bought many.

And, like with motorcycles, I was finding pleasure in the purchase. With many objects, this is not a good ideal.

But, now that I have many, the want to have has waned. As well, the knowledge of what I actually desire has tempered much of what would be wanted.

Like many things, “keeping up with the Jones” might be fallacy. We can’t see through closed doors and we never know just how we look through other humans eyes.

In the last ten years I have purchased two to three a year, with four my maximum.

(Yes, I am a lucky SOB, but I’m not dumb enough to call her that. She’ll straight end me!)

But in that same time, the same six firearms get all the rounds through them. Three rimfires, a 1911, a .223 bolt and my AR. And I could possibly live without the Buckmark, maybe…

So, it’s good I find pride in owning some of the old ones. They don’t get much use. I’ve never heard of a farmer that brags on how little they use their equipment, but we are a different lot from they.

The important part is that one is happy with their collection. Remember that the average is a number that nobody really owns.
If one owns more, they are not weird or dangerous.
If one owns less, that are not in desperate need of equalization.

The only number that really counts is that you have ONE!

Shucks, Uncle Sam owns more firearms than anyone, and he is us. Skews the numbers a bit, huh?


(Of course, peering over the hedge from time to time might make you realize you really do need a new, pistol. Technology does change…)

Here’s a tasty one. Take 1 stripped lower. Add a dash of upper receiver. Mix with 1 BCG and 1 complete LPK. Add barrel, charging handle and chicken stock, less chicken. Season with Ballistol or CLP to taste.

I like a beefier stock base, like the LuthARs, and marinated for a few hours in black nitride. Then I spice it up with some Ed’s Red for flavor and that “Come get some!” smell that wafts through the pavilion! Yum!

 

[doubleh]

I have never bothered to keep count so was unable to vote.

 

[lightman]

I honestly don't remember the year or even the exact number. I voted 7-8 but that could be plus or minus 1 or 2.

And I agree, gun owners don't seem to be very good boat drivers!

 

[pharmer]

I guess 1995 was the year for me. In December I was "persuaded" by an "alphabet agent" to not pursue renewal of my 01 FFL (due to local zoning variance denial). Suddenly, my "inventory" became "personal." Joe

 

[kopcicle]

My last overseas contract.
The other kind of contract. I maintain generators and such.
Even 20 years ago my days of high speed low drag were well behind me.
It was time to replace my service weapons after 20 years of hard use.
1911's
BHP's
M9
Mouse gunz
.308 real gunz. Fal's actually because...
STGW-57 or was it a 510? could have been either and the statute of limitations has expired on this one.
All but the Swiss and the M9 were purchased in multiples.
14 total.
When?2003
Why? Because I could.
How? I'd been there before, and my employer and security trusted me to point a weapon in the right direction.
Who? I prefer Jarheads for security. Adapt, improvise, overcome, aren't just words. It's an attitude I can relate to.

The Swiss and the M9 had plenty of spares but were orphans for different reasons. The Swiss was a special request that became self-explanatory after arrival, (curious surplus of 7.5x55 on site) and the M9 (92FS in my case) because everyone else there had one.

I very specifically detest the M9 for reasons I find difficult to articulate. I haven't had one fail. I don't find them difficult to operate. I'm even reasonably accurate with one. Honestly, I don't like them and can't/won't explain further.

 

[d31tc]

The only number that really counts is that you have ONE!

I've been told on gun boards that one is none? So, are we bad boaters AND bad mathematicians?

 

[P89DCSS]

More than 14 guns in a year? Someone should start a poll for how guns do you own that you haven't shot yet.....I'm up to five again. I'm not allowing new purchases until I've shot everything I own now.

 

[d31tc]

More than 14 guns in a year? Someone should start a poll for how guns do you own that you haven't shot yet.....I'm up to five again. I'm not allowing new purchases until I've shot everything I own now.

I have 24 total. While some I bought ultimately with the intention that they are for my daughters, at this time they are "mine". I have 2 that I have not shot. That will be remedied soon. I've been waiting to acquire brass and reloading supplies for a Henry 44 Magnum. It's taken me a while . Another I bought as a contingency if the daughters take to hunting. The oldest went out with me this year, but she was using my rifle, not the one I bought for her. If she chooses to keep hunting, at some point she will be in a blind by herself and we'll get the other rifle set up. If the daughters don't want to hunt, then I will be making some changes to my inventory. What changes? No idea at this time. I rotate through at the range, but shoot my 22's and my EDC the most.

 

[bangswitch]

The Pandemic was murder on my wallet. Two guns in 2019, two more in 2020, three in 2021 and two last year. All handguns, and all but two were revolvers.

 

[d31tc]

The Pandemic was murder on my wallet. Two guns in 2019, two more in 2020, three in 2021 and two last year. All handguns, and all but two were revolvers.

Good deals relating to today’s prices?

 

[bangswitch]

Good deals relating to today’s prices?

Yeah, right.

I retired from healthcare in 2019, just before the pandemic hit. I started doing some landscape work with a buddy just to stay busy, and stuck what I was making in a pillow case. Went to a bunch of gun shows in the next couple of years, and found something nice at almost every one. And no, the prices weren't what they had been a few years earlier; I just didn't have extra money back then.

 

[hoardingthemanual]

I bought my first gun in June of last year. Now, I own 8 firearms with plans for maybe 2 more this weekend (definitely 1- a gorgeous Browning X Bolt White Gold in my precious 308 Win).

 

[hemiram]

Mine was 2018, I bought 7 of them, almost all of them were models of guns I previously owned, or had wanted for a very long time.

 

[Demi-human]

I've been told on gun boards that one is none? So, are we bad boaters AND bad mathematicians?

Oh, nope. Head over to the reloading section. We’re all CDO over there, and keep records of primer lots for years after they’ve been vaporized.
And the real aficionados keep round counts on every barrel.

I do believe in spare parts, but not in entire spare firearms. And yet, I have some.
I am a dichotomy.

All this talk of buying firearms has me thinking…
I don’t have the important rifle and pistol combo that shares the same ammunition.
I was thinking maybe a lever rifle in 50AE, to match my Desert Eagle.
I haven’t bought one this year, and Turnbull is getting short on lead times!

 

[d31tc]

Mine was 2018, I bought 7 of them, almost all of them were models of guns I previously owned, or had wanted for a very long time.

The more people that have purchased 7 or more in a year, the more normal I feel.

 

[d31tc]

All this talk of buying firearms has me thinking…
I don’t have the important rifle and pistol combo that shares the same ammunition.

Never thought of using that as a selection criteria. That would be a good discussion, what round would make the best rifle/pistol combination? Is 50AE to Mitch pistol? Is 22LR not enough rifle? Is 44 mag the Goldilocks combination? I don’t have any 50AE and only have a 44 Mag rifle.

Buying combinations should up your annual purchases.

 

[Styx]

Of we're counting stripped AR15 lowers then it's more than 15.

During the pandemic with all the free money I purchased a 3 or 4 handguns and a bunch of stripped Aero and Anderson lowers.

 

[Reloadron]

This year I already have two guns I never planned on having and thanks to my brother who set a price just too good to refuse. While I voted 3 or 4 some years looking back maybe more and now typically 1 or 2 with the exception of the two this year I never planned on. Oh wait, I have bought 3 this year, I forgot about a Remington Rand GI 1911A1 circa 1942 with original GI holster. That one I wanted.

Ron

 

[Legionnaire]

I'm a horse trader. Are you asking "net?"

 

[captain awesome]

Well, I think it was last year. Probably 40 or so.

 

[Old Dog]

I wish I could remember my big gun-purchasing years. Pretty sure they're all election years. I can tell you than after Hillary was nominated, I was buying a minimum of one gun a month, sometimes two, three or more. I've tapered off in 2023 for sure; during the (alleged) pandemic, I probably splurged a bit.

 

[Mosin77]

I kinda lose track. 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 were all big years. Sometimes I felt like I was buying a gun every week. I’d say I don’t buy as many now but I think I’m on track for a half dozen this year at least…

Ok but seriously, after that, I can’t think of a single other gun I really need. I’m done.

Right?

But I do have a list… and there are guns on it. And they don’t often get checked off because I’m always finding other non-list guns that I really need.

 

[jdc1244]

Had one 1-gun year.

Averaging acquiring 4 to 5 guns a year; averaging selling 2 to 3 guns per year.

For obvious reasons the last few years have been a sellers’ market.

 

[tark]

This year was ( is ) a big one for me. Conoco Phillips drilled and fracked some new wells on my land in North Dakota. ( private land, so Biden can't stop them. ) The royalty checks have been large. I have been buying a bunch of guns, starting with a Bula Armaments standard M-14. All of the rest were C&R purchases from Simpson's Collector guns in Galesburg, Illinois. As Dave Laurent will testify, Simpson's is an incredible gun store, with an inventory of over 6,000 firearms. ( Yes, you read that right. ) Mostly C&R guns.

I'm up to seven this year, with many more to come.