What's the most irresponsible thing you've ever done to pay for a gun you wanted?

[Zaydok Allen]

Let's stick to legal stuff. Don't incriminate yourself, or end your marriage now.

Let's see....... I need to ponder that a minute.

 

[WestKentucky]

I once bought a gun off of a guy at work for dirt cheap, told the roommate I had hit a rough patch and needed him to cover rent for a week until I could repay him when I got my next check because I knew he had the money or else I could pay the $10 late fee. Ended up not liking the rifle and gave it to him to cover rent (slight profit, maybe 20 bucks or so) and came clean on what I did. For a ruger m77 in .243 in 2011 he gladly took the gun over 275 in rent money. He sold it for 350 to his coworker a couple months later.

 

[Pit4Brains]

Ohh.. I went 4-wheeling in the desert with too many pitchers of beer on board. Nobody was at risk but myself. It cost me my pre-ban Colt AR-15 to pick up a good portion of the repairs.
It cost me and I paid.. And I want it back..

For a ruger m77 in .243 in 2011 he gladly took the gun over 275 in rent money.

I missed that for a second, but I had a M77 in 30-06. I miss that rifle as well.
Although it may be off topic, and not trying to hijack, but sometimes doing stupid things costs you firearms you want.

 

[lxd55]

got up and went to work, just seems I can't work enuff to keep up with the desire!!

 

[DeepSouth]

I purchased one with a credit card that already had a balance on it I couldn't pay off at the end of the month.:banghead: young and stupid I was.

I sold a gun to buy my wife's engagement ring to. Looking back that cost me tens of thousands but id do it again. Still, it was a colt 1991 that I loved, if I had a do over I'd save up.

 

[MarshallDodge]

Sold an unfired, in the box, 70 series Colt to fund a Ruger Vaquero purchase when I was getting into Cowboy Action. I have had a lot of fun with the Vaquero but I miss the Colt.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I guess for me, it was the time I stopped contributing to my 401-K for two months to pay for a gun. Of course, that also means that my employer's matching contributions didn't go in to the fund either, so I threw a few extra hundred out the door on top of what I didn't put in the fund.

Young and not thinking at the time...........

 

[The Narrator]

Real question is, what's the most irresponsible thing I will do, since I now think I need a pistol. I'll be following this thread for ideas how to make it happen.

 

[tubeshooter]

This is going to sound rather benign, but I would have to say "use a credit card for a purchase".


Haven't done that in a long time now. If I don't have the cash money in the bank, then it has to wait.

 

[MtnCreek]

I purchased one with a credit card that already had a balance on it I couldn't pay off at the end of the month. young and stupid I was.

Same here. I always paid cash, no matter what I was buying. Then I decided I needed to build credit to prepare for a future home purchase. With my newly acquired credit card I bought several things including a rifle and shotgun that I couldn't afford. Lesson learned.

 

[trapper1]

Sold one to buy one...on more than one occasion. Won't ever do that again

 

[Babarsac]

Have definitely sold one to buy one, but I've never picked up a new credit card as a result. I sold off the majority of what I owned to help pay for my wedding. This included:

-Ambi AR-15
-FAL
-Garand
-HK P7
-FN Hi Power
-K31
-Israeli Mauser
-A few others

But in the end it was worth it.

 

[dab102999]

Got married...(girlfriend at the time had more and better guns then me)..good thing 25 plus years later she still lets me shoot them once in a while.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

If I don't have the cash money in the bank, then it has to wait.

That's normally my opinion too. The problem is I have located a gun that is new in the box, but out of production, and it is a gun I've wanted for like 5 years. It would cost me upwards of $1600 or more perhaps to buy it on credit. I can afford it, I just have much better and more responsible uses for the money, like saving for a house.

Now that I think about it, this thread is designed to make me feel better about something I'm going to attempt to do, but shouldn't.

I worry I'll regret it though if I don't go after it, and the reality is that I'm not in a hurry to buy a house, since I'm looking for jobs and a new town to live in.

Man, now that I think about it, if I had bought the gun 5 years ago, I could have saved like $400-$600.:banghead:

I may be selling my .22 revolver and an old antique bulldog revolver to help fund this one. And it is a gun I don't even need......

I am a stupid man and have an addiction.

 

[MtnCreek]

If you post the .22 revolver here, shoot me a pm. BTW, do you accept Visa?

 

[SleazyRider]

Many moons ago, rebuilt the transmission on my wife's car using a Chilton's manual and a lot of guess-by-golly, figuring I saved somewhere in the neighborhood of $600.00. So I bought a CZ75B with the money I saved.

The transmission quit after another 500 miles or so and we junked the car … but I still have the CZ75B!

 

[slschultz]

Went to the bank and borrowed money to buy a new Ruger Red Label and a J P Sauer sxs ( made in 1912 ).

 

[claiborne]

Many moons ago in college, I used a student loan check to buy a new Winchester 70 varminter .223. After college, I sold that rifle and a few others to pay the student loan off.

 

[OH_Spartan]

I have never done anything foolish to acquire a gun. I have never bought one with money that would have been better served elsewhere. I have never bought a gun I didnt need. I have never purchased a gun early in the auction "just-in-case" the one I want later goes too high. I have never gotten stuck bidding on a gun at auction because I thought some other joe was getting too good of a deal. I have never....


Now, who wants to purchase a bridge from me so I can fund my next "I have never...."? It is a great opportunity. And, if you sell a gun to fund the purchase, you can use your experience later to keep this thread alive.

 

[MtnCreek]

Will you take some ocean front property in sunny AZ in trade for the bridge?

 

[Potatohead]

I didnt have an AR and I told my wife AR15s were getting banned "at this very moment" a few yrs ago in the wake of one of the Obama era schools shootings, but " I can still be grandfathered in if I get it today or tmrw."

 

[Robbins290]

Took some money from my 401k when i screaming deal came up for a gub ive been waiting for. It was less then 1k. But still.

 

[WesM]

I have gotten permission from my wife to buy one gun with the promise of selling another after the fact to pay for it. Unfortunately the one I want to sell isn't apparently a hot item. Having a lot of trouble selling it. But at least I got the one I wanted. Ha.

 

[SconnieGirl]

I was dating a guy I was going to dump, but I knew he was buying me a gun for my birthday, so I held on for another few weeks to get the pistol. I dumped him a couple days later and kept the gun, which he demanded back, but didn't get.

 

[rcmodel]

Many years ago, I spent the months grocery money on a trade too good to pass up for a new Browning A5 shotgun.

My new bride & I lived on Ramon Noodles for the rest of the month before we recovered enough to buy real food again!

And I slept on the cold side of the bed in total silence for about twice that long!

Still have the same wife of 49 years, and still have the Browning.

So it was worth it in the long run!

rc