Too many Guns?

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WooD said:
Went in to pick up a gun I had shipped to my local FFL. He actually said..."Don't you think you have enough guns."

That was about 8 guns ago.
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I picked up 3 gun this week, layaway for 2-3 months, we have new gun laws next year and had to clear it out.

2 high end 1911
1 C Cartwright model 10

They didn’t give me the gun tingles like I use to get. So my New Year resolution is much less buying and way more shooting
 
TomJ said:
The same as any addiction, one of which is when you're buying guns you can't afford, especially if it's at the expense of providing for your family or you have credit card bills you can't pay.
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no it is NOT the same as "any addiction" sir! You don't smoke up, drink up or snort and shoot up this one destroying your mind , health and soul. You don't destroy your morals and health and family or gamble it away and have have nothing to show for it. You don't have closets full of shoes and clothes to haul off to Goodwill . My collection at it's biggest numbered about three hundred , I try to sell off the ones that will not reasonably hold the price I paid for them starting thirty years ago . Now I am getting old and made sure all my children and grand children and dear long time friends and helpers have gotten their picks . I am selling down despite the evil Govt. which has coerced the shippers not to let me a non FFL ship to an FFL which licenses the buyer. It cuts the profit out of most transactions and delays things which is their scheme under the guise of do gooding . I could just sell to friends and such but chose not to expose my self to satan's power, I'll just take the 30% hit . For me the end game will be to have around a dozen reliable and fond useful firearms to go hunting or shooting with friends and family or have with me legally for their protection as long as I am not down for the count. Those will be easy for my heirs to handle as they see fit. I am a third generation (at least as far as I know) weapon collector and a fairly tea totaling family oriented religous bunch we have been .
 
Mark_Mark said:
What you say?
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I say, "Bite thy foul forked tongue, to still it's heresies to the Faithful!" :D

Now, perhaps, if you have converted your four bedroom house into a Gun Room, and you live outside in a tent . . . :)

As long as you are are not going hungy, or without basic needs, it's not really an addiction.
 
Gordon said:
no it is NOT the same as "any addiction" sir! You don't smoke up, drink up or snort and shoot up this one destroying your mind , health and soul. You don't destroy your morals and health and family or gamble it away and have have nothing to show for it. You don't have closets full of shoes and clothes to haul off to Goodwill . My collection at it's biggest numbered about three hundred , I try to sell off the ones that will not reasonably hold the price I paid for them starting thirty years ago . Now I am getting old and made sure all my children and grand children and dear long time friends and helpers have gotten their picks . I am selling down despite the evil Govt. which has coerced the shippers not to let me a non FFL ship to an FFL which licenses the buyer. It cuts the profit out of most transactions and delays things which is their scheme under the guise of do gooding . I could just sell to friends and such but chose not to expose my self to satan's power, I'll just take the 30% hit . For me the end game will be to have around a dozen reliable and fond useful firearms to go hunting or shooting with friends and family or have with me legally for their protection as long as I am not down for the count. Those will be easy for my heirs to handle as they see fit. I am a third generation (at least as far as I know) weapon collector and a fairly tea totaling family oriented religous bunch we have been .
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I'm not sure this forum is the correct one to debate the definition of or discuss the different types of addictions, but my point was that if you're buying guns with money that should have gone towards paying the mortgage or other bills necessary to provide for your family it's a problem. Put whatever label you want on it, but again it is a problem.
 
My wife’s formula, for the correct amount of guns, is “ All that will fit in the safe +1. Then buy a new safe”. Her first rule of gun safes is that it just wasted space if the safe is not filled to capacity.

It is wonderful, and also expensive, to have a spouse that thinks so logically.
 
stringnut said:
My wife’s formula, for the correct amount of guns, is “ All that will fit in the safe +1. Then buy a new safe”. Her first rule of gun safes is that it just wasted space if the safe is not filled to capacity.

It is wonderful, and also expensive, to have a spouse that thinks so logically.
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I love your Wife!
 
Gordon said:
no it is NOT the same as "any addiction" sir! You don't smoke up, drink up or snort and shoot up this one destroying your mind , health and soul. You don't destroy your morals and health and family or gamble it away and have have nothing to show for it. You don't have closets full of shoes and clothes to haul off to Goodwill . My collection at it's biggest numbered about three hundred , I try to sell off the ones that will not reasonably hold the price I paid for them starting thirty years ago . Now I am getting old and made sure all my children and grand children and dear long time friends and helpers have gotten their picks . I am selling down despite the evil Govt. which has coerced the shippers not to let me a non FFL ship to an FFL which licenses the buyer. It cuts the profit out of most transactions and delays things which is their scheme under the guise of do gooding . I could just sell to friends and such but chose not to expose my self to satan's power, I'll just take the 30% hit . For me the end game will be to have around a dozen reliable and fond useful firearms to go hunting or shooting with friends and family or have with me legally for their protection as long as I am not down for the count. Those will be easy for my heirs to handle as they see fit. I am a third generation (at least as far as I know) weapon collector and a fairly tea totaling family oriented religous bunch we have been .
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Good point! It’s like people who buys Real Estate and property. Same can be said about guns
 
I’ll have too many guns that when I die and they auction them off and the auction negatively affects the prices because I have so many on the market at one time. Well, I won’t have them, but someone will reap the rewards.
 
Legionnaire said:
Guns can become a fixation, addiction, even idolatry. But the number of guns owned might or might not indicate a problem. If you have surplus resources and like to collect guns, no worries. If you are sacrificing important relationships and obligations to acquire more guns, you likely have an issue.

My wife and I just read "Scarcity Brain" by Michael Easter. Subtitle is "Fix Your Craving Mindset & Rewrite Your Habits to Thrive with Enough." It's motivating me to get serious about downsizing. I like the distinction he makes between "stuff" and "gear." The latter are possessions with purpose; the former are encumbrances.
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encumbrances is a good way to put it! I heard from a friend who heard… one of there buddies got into major credit card debt because of his addiction to Lugers
 
bearcreek said:
This is an internet gun forum. A good 70+% of threads have no real point. They're recreational conversations. It's like drinking beer or playing horseshoes.
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The High Road is--"an online board dedicated to the discussion and advancement of responsible firearms ownership. It is the declared mission of this board to achieve and provide the highest quality of firearms discussion on the Internet". Threads that have 'no real point" do little or nothing to advance that purpose.
bearcreek said:
Having spent more on guns than on training and ammunition. [is a sig that one has too many guns]
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yes, uless one is solely a collector.
Mark_Mark said:
My gun addiction is BAD! you can literally sell me a tube and say, bullets will come out… and I would buy it
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Think about it. Would anyone ever want to have those or similar words brought up in a civil or criminal court of law, a divorce hearing, a child custody hearing, an employment interview, a discussion of creditworthiness, a personnel review, a ..... IF NOT, DON'T POST IT!

That may make me sound like something of a party pooper, but believe me, that kind of thing can be damaging.
 
I have no desire to accumulate safes full of mostly run of the mill guns. I enjoy being a shooter more. A guy I used to work with always had a new gun of some type when I'd see him, some pretty cool ones sometimes. He never shot them. Now someone who is an actual collector of more rare and desireable firearms I can understand more then just safes full of average guns. Many people who call themselves collectors are actually accumulators.
 
Kleanbore said:
The High Road is--"an online board dedicated to the discussion and advancement of responsible firearms ownership. It is the declared mission of this board to achieve and provide the highest quality of firearms discussion on the Internet". Threads that have 'no real point" do little or nothing to advance that purpose.
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I think this is certainly a valid discussion. The problem is it's very subjective. As you pointed out, some folks are collectors. No different than collecting art or china. I agree with a statement already posted: if you are buying things you can't really afford, be it guns, cars or whatever, then you need to get some perspective and maybe some help. This forum is probably not the best place to come for "help" with a gun buying addiction. 😆

Then again though, no one ever starts out with "hey, I'm financially strapped and behind on my car payments, but I want this....".
If they did, they would probably get a lot of sound advice here.
 
silicosys4 said:
Every time I think I have everything I'd ever want or need, the state passes another law.
Funny how many guns I was "meh" about until the state tells me I can't have them.
Last year it was "assault rifles" and "high capacity magazines".
This year is "license to purchase".

Buying guns is the new "Viva la Resistance!"
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Washington State! #metoo!
 
Hugger-4641 said:
No different than collecting art or china. I agree with a statement already posted: if you are buying things you can't really afford, be it guns, cars or whatever, then you need to get some perspective and maybe some help. This forum is probably not the best place to come for "help" with a gun buying addiction.
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The mission of The Hight Road does not encompass the discussion of addiction, paranoia, phobias, etc.

But it's not just the off-mission consumption of band-width that is a concern here. The advancement of responsible firearms ownership is not supported when we post publicly statements that would reasonably be expected to create the impression, or to furher substantiate existing suspicion.,that many gun owners, take a frivolous view of gun ownership, and that many of them crave the accumulation of things that they themselves will not even try to justify--or that they may just be simpleminded.

That's to say noting of the risk takeen by thse who post such material. This is not a private venue, what is posted here is discoverable and permanent, and it is safe to say that whatever may be used to the disadvantage of a poster just may well be, tomorrow, or in some discussion well down the road. Posters--or senders of email, text messages, tweets, or letters, etc.--should think before doing so.

Those who have had something that they have written "privately' end up in the office of an unfriendly United States Senator will probably understand this better than others.
 
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