Have you ever felt like you have too many firearms?

[knfmn]

My wife would say yes; I would say no..

However, a good indication might be when you buy a 2nd safe, a 24 gun safe, and a month later, you're considering another safe because the new one is smack full

Oh, don't go dinging me about filling a 24 gun safe; from what I can tell, you're lucky if you ever get 1/2 as many guns in it as the safe is sold as being.

I've never understood that, either. I get that supposedly safe volume is based upon alternating how you put long guns in it, I.E. one up, one down. Even at that, I don't think you can come within five of stated volume on most safes without taking a real chance on beating the crap out of your guns.

My wife would say I have too many as well. Little does she know that my "to buy" list is about 3X as long.

 

[Slamfire]

You can't have too many firearms. The whole idea is an oxymoron.

 

[P5 Guy]

Yeah, and I sold off almost all of the guns I never really shot much or liked shooting. Most of the surplus ammo dried up and commercial ammo is too expensive. Handloading got to be a mess. Anyone handload 303BRIT?
I'm getting down to just a few calibers, keeping things simple.

 

[MoreIsLess]

I feel like when I get to many of them, none of them get shot very often as I rotate through them. I would rather have a half a dozen or so guns that I shoot regularly and become proficient with than 40 or 50 guns each of which only gets shot once a year, maybe.

 

[Doug S]

Yes, most definitely. Over the years, I've found that I get very little satisfaction from colllections that sit in safes, etc. This applies to guns, and other things as well. When I got to the point that the satisfaction came in the buying, and the satisfaction lasted only shortly after the purchase, leading to the compulsion to go continually searching for the next purchase, I finally realized that I had too much. I've since consolidated, and I still have too much, but I'm only human

 

[X-Rap]

I have guns that haven't been shot in well over a decade but they sit there waiting so I don't sweat it.

 

[ojh]

I don't think I have too many guns, but every now and then I get these creeping thoughts about having spent way too much money on them. Got my collector's license some time ago and after that things have gotten somewhat out of hand

 

[Rollis R. Karvellis]

The ironic thing is we just moved her stuff back into my apartment.

(460Kodiak) (I assume you mean to pay for settlements and legal fees, and not to get rid of evidence?)

 

[valnar]

Since I have a few guns I have never fired, I do think that. I have duplicate Swedish m38 and Swiss K31 rifles, and some extra revolvers that I never use, just out of fear that one might break and then I won't be able to use the ammo I bought for them. Obviously, sending them in for repair is not possible. I bought those surplus guns when the prices were low, realized (correctly) that the prices would go up as the availability went down, then took advantage of it.

So out of my 25 guns or so, I suppose 5 might be redundant and prove to be unnecessary, but then those guns are now insurance policies.

 

[stringnut]

I am not currently looking for any more guns, so, that must be the right amount. It is not too many.

The wife has about half of what I do and she says she far too few.

 

[Ky Larry]

When my 24-gun safe and my 10-gun locker are full, and I have guns chained to the bed frame in the guest room, it's time thin the herd. I'd rather have one gun I like to shoot than 5 guns that don't interest me.

 

[mooosie]

No! It is not a matter of need it is a matter of want, all I need is a bigger safe!