Uh oh- Wife wants to know how many guns I own?

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Back in the old day's, when I, still drank the way it would go is honey I'm going to buy this gun that cost $500.00. She would throw a fit, and I would not buy the gun. I would go down to Wheeling and spend $1000.00 on booze, gambeling, and dancer's. After we split up, for some strange reason I, stopped drinking, strange huh. When the new wife and I, were talking on the phone one day I, was comminting on the the nice Harley's in the back yard at a friends house, after a short pause my soon to be wife said to me that if I, never buy a bike, she would never complain about the gun's. Things have been smooth sailing ever since.;)
 
Ahhhh, the keys to a happy marriage are alive and well I see. :rolleyes: My wife neither asks nor really cares. I have my hobbies and interests and she has hers. I have guns she has shoes and now, guitars (just 3 thus far still still...) Our philosophy is simple...is we have the financial means why not. :) Maybe by her asking, she's wondering some might be getting added when that money should be going towards other things. :scrutiny:
 
my wife told me the other day..."I don't remember seeing that little stainless rifle before, did you get ANOTHER new gun?".

"naw", says I, "it was just way in the back of the gun safe and I had forgotten about it till the other day. I thought it be a good idea to get it out and shoot it."


"Yeah, right........" says she.
 
Didn't we learn anything from Watergate? The cover up is worse than the crime.
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The words of a man destined to lose half his stuff and visit his kids every other weekend.
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200 proof wisdom being dispensed here. You guys who lie to your wives are digging your own graves. And keep your rationalizations to yourselves. They are pathetic.
 
I've read that financial issues are the number one reason for divorce. This makes transparency with regard to finances very important in my mind.
 
Kinda puts a shine on those two little words, "I Do " .......:neener:
Prolly aught to just come clean and be truthful, then do what she wants to do for a few weeks. Maybe she will let you keep them............

My EXSO was into shooting when we got hitched and after many years came to resent my hobby so much it became a problem. The shoe argument doesn't work BTW.
 
From a woman prospective, we aren't all evil and looking to take your guns away. You took her out shooting and she enjoyed it. She seen how much you enjoyed it. She seen how much the kids enjoyed it. Who knows how the conversation would have went after you told her how many. Maybe she would have wanted to know which other ones that she could shoot. Maybe she wants to connect with you on your hobby. Maybe she's think of gift giving ideas.
I believe honesty is best. Probably don't have to give an exact number. My hubby ask me how many guns we have. I tell him. Of course we make sure to clear large purchases with one another. Personally money don't mean that much to me. As long as the priorities are taken care of, I'm good with spending money on fun.
 
Hmmm. It's somewhere near:
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Oh, you wanted an exact number?
 
The words of a man destined to lose half his stuff and visit his kids every other weekend.

My wife suggests its better to tell your wife how many guns you own when she asks, rather than her lawyers as they're drawing up a settlement.
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I meant to add an the ;) emoticon after that, but my wife distracted me. Anything I have posted thus far IN THIS THREAD is meant to be humorous. Some of it may be true, but it is meant to be humorous.

As to actually lying to my wife. If I have to do that I'll be the one calling the divorce lawyers. Suffice it to say that men aren't the only ones that have lied in a marriage, and I don't play that game from either bench. So I just avoid the situation.

In reality mostly so far it hasn't been an issue of guns. She could care less about the guns. It is as so many others have stated a money thing. As long as the money is there she's fine. She has actually told me she doesn't want to know, but that will last only as long as I don't go nuts which I've out grown so it's kind of a moot point.

The money thing is helped by the fact that we have no kids at home, and those expenses are now behind us. I never had any, and hers are grown and gone so we're just in it for the fun - hers, mine, and ours.

To bad, if it wasn't for the whole I don't like dishonesty thing I might try the motorcycle thing, but I also really really really want a bike so I'll have to avoid that one. :D
 
Add 5 to the real number.....

Then your covered for a while. :evil:

Seriously, I quit justifying it to her.....we are more on the don't ask don't tell policy.
 
"I cannot count that high" Really she wants me to get another large safe for the overflow. A few years back when buying a nice Parker, wel filled out the ATF form in her name, that has smoothed over a lot of things.
 
I might be the first guy ever to quote Wayne's World on THR, but I love this quote and it is somewhat useful in this instance.
"If you spew and she bolts...it was never meant to be. If you hurl and she stays, shes yours!"
Just tell her.... Then buy her a pretty pink smith and wesson snubby. Ok maybe skip the pink snubby!
 
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A few months ago I had to move my gun safe from one room to another and I took the opportunity to lay out my guns and take some photos for archiving purposes. When I laid them out my daughter counted them up then she ran up stairs saying, "Mommy, Mommy, Daddy has XX guns!" TO which she responded, "WHAT!?!?!? HOW MANY?!?!?" Then I had to explain to here that those were only the ones in the safe, there were actually a few more than that. oops. She took it pretty well though. She has even let me add to the collection a few times since then.
 
I kinda dodged the question tonight- probably won't be able to for very long- got her out in the yard with the kids shooting tonight. She had fun, she was hitting spinning gopher target at 50 yards, her last 14 shots were dead on.

so maybe it won't be so bad when I actually have to tell her how many?

I updated my inventory list tonight, so at least I know now.........
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I see a large jewelry purchase in your future. :D
 
From my cold, dead lips

I told my wife the guns in the safe are loaded. She went "Ahhh" and never ventures near it.

Beside, she has several ugly Louis Vuitton purses that I can call her on. ;)
 
Id say tell her more then you really have so you have a buffer zone to add more(discretely). Unless you dont think that she will care one way or another.
 
That's Funny . . .

My wife never asks me "how many," she only asks, "do we have enough for everything we need?"

I can remember one weekend, listening to Gun Talk (we take a drive in the country to get better AM reception), Tom Gresham and one of his guests were discussing some specific application (I forget what, exactly), and she turned to me and said, "are we covered for that?"

She doesn't have a great deal of interest in the details of what's in the safe, I tend to bore her with that stuff, but she recognizes the necessity and wants to know that we have adequate artillery for self defense, home defense, hunting big game, hunting small game, hunting varmints, practice, and teaching the kids and grandkids how to shoot. As you can see from this, none of the guns is there for "fun" ( :D ), every one of them has a serious purpose.

Consequently, I try to oblige her by having as little fun with them as possible.

:D
 
thanks for all the comments- she'll eventually remember she didn't get an answer- at least I'm safe for now!

money isn't a problem, so she shouldn't be too hard on me.

I just hope we can get through the "number of guns" thing quickly before she starts asking about how much ammunition/reloading stuff I have. :what::what::what:
 
I don't think anybody in this part of Missouri can count that high ;)

I was wondering that same thing the other day at the gun shop....
 
If my wife asked me this question, I would simply say "you know where to find them, go count em."

The fact of the matter is, even tho I love guns and would love to have countless more, all my guns are purpose oriented. I am not a collector, don't have the funds for that. All the purpose oriented guns that I really need and would like to have are fully automatic, belt fed guns that are not available/legal for me to own.:D
 
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