How many guns purchased in a typical year?

[22-rimfire]

This is a topic that has always interested me. If you read the forums, you'd think folks are buying a gun a month or more. That can't be normal, or is it?

So how many do you buy in a typical year? How many do you sell?

For me, for the last few years I have purchased about 5 to 7 guns per year. Most of them have been 22 rifles, but my love has always been well made revolvers.

What say you?

 

[Walkalong]

This year, or the average over 35 years?

 

[22-rimfire]

I go through cycles myself from buying none to buying as many as 10-12. Not looking for anyone to reveal their secrets, which is why I said "typical year". So it could be this year or say in the last 5 years or if you like 35 years. If I looked at the last 20 years, the number per year is generally lower than the last couple.

 

[eight433]

well, TYPICALLY the answer is a big fat goose egg

THIS year, like 4 or 5, roughly doubling my existing collection of inherited guns.

 

[bri]

I bought a shotgun on my 12th birthday, then a handgun around 22. That was it until this year (about 10 years later), 3 handguns so far. I for see at least 2 more purchases before years end as well...

 

[hso]

3 or 4 a year these days, but I've been at this for a while and it tapers off.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

I'm done selling guns from my personal stash. No one wants to pay the prices I'm willing to sell at. A friend wants my Ruger P90 that I got for $250, and he knows I got it at that price, and I'm not looking to sell, he pesters me every so often and I always tell him $400 and he gives me some flak about how he can get it cheaper and I tell him to go look there, at the local gunshop it will run over $500 out the door.

The past two years have been absolutely insane as far as gun buying has gone, I've been quite successful in the stock market day trading, started a small landscaping business that grew that i sold, that I restarted after the buyer ruined it(was a nice four grand a couple months off from running it), and became an NRA pistol Instructor and make a little over a grand each month. And i had considerable stashes of money before hand.

Also I know folks who don't like selling their guns to gunshops,(because they know they are going to get raked over the coals, i.e. buddy bought a Ruger P345 for over $500 went back two months later needing to sell it desperately andthey only offered him $125, I gave him $200 and forever it will be mine short of starving or losing my house). I've gotten ARs, Taurus PT92, just an insanely large sum.

I've sold a few through my FFL guy(FFL transfers) as I won't sell privately, buy sure, sell no. Mostl Semi-auto Smiths. And then I have inherited a large sum, and have 'worked' in exchange for some along with getting paid in cash.

Safe to say I'm done buying for awhile(yeah I keep telling myself that and last time I did I got a Bersa 9mm Ultra Compact for $260). I've been offered other guns since at not bad but not great deals. I know the gunshops will pay considerably less, you don't know who you are selling to at the gunshows, and so I've set my standards.

Once I get my FFL a year or two from now I'll be sure to put considerable numbers of them up on gunbroker.com. I've got 6 model 19s, I can only bring myself to shoot one of them, I worked for an exchange rate of $300 per gun and I'll put those up for auction. I'll put some of the hunting rifles up in .243, Norinco pistols in 9mm I can't easily convert to 9x23, a nickel plated Star SA 9mm, amongst other guns I consdier too redundant to my collection or have calibers I don't have stashes of ammo for or I don't want to get large stashes of ammo for. I won't FFL transfer to my students from my personal stash once I have my FFL to avoid liabilities and headaches, but I'll only charge 10% above wholeseller with 7% sales tax and shipping, and I'll tell you what, that is some savings.

 

[tjj]

None for twenty years. About 25 in the last three years. Six since July of this year. It's about to taper off since I can't think of anything else I want or need.

 

[JWF III]

It's about to taper off since I can't think of anything else I want or need.

You're just not trying hard enough.

Wyman

 

[WoofersInc]

Since moving to Vegas from California I have really gone nuts buying. I'm currently avereraging about 8-9 a year right now. On occassion I will get 2-3 at one time. AS far as selling I have decided that I am no longer going to part with any of the guns that I own. My goal is to own over 100 guns. I'm getting closer since my latest purchase put me at 78.

 

[HardShell]

I've bought 35 firearms this calendar year so far, and sold or traded away 21 that I already had. Last year it was 20 in and 9 out for the whole year, 43 in and 25 out the year before that. (Large, ongoing platform/caliber consolidation effort the past few years.)

But I am anything but "typical" when it comes to firearms...

 

[theotherwaldo]

I've been averaging about eight guns per year for the last seven years. Tapering off, though, as I'm reaching the end of my 'want' list.

I don't sell guns, though I've given a few to family members.

 

[paintballdude902]

normally 2-3

 

[bang_bang]

normally 2-3

I'm about the same, although I'm running out of room to put them.

I've gotten 2 pistols and 2 rifles this year.

 

[DRYHUMOR]

Too many and I'm through for the year. I think. Maybe. Ah hell, who am I kidding.

 

[Ala Dan]

Geez- I haven't kept up with my yearly purchase's; as some year's were
more plentiful than other's~!

FWIW, from Sept. of '04 thru May of '09, life was very good. Times have
been a little tough lately; but one of these days, I will be back on track~!

 

[CYANIDEGENOCIDE]

usually about 8 or 9 a year, some are on the spendy side, most aren't

 

[FROGO207]

I average 12 a year but this year, double that. Also about a safe a year average. I will not go into the area of reloading. Lets say same as half a dozen AR type evil guns.