Wife found out how many guns i own

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I've been up front with every woman I've dated that I'm a shooter who has a decent collection of guns, and who regularly attends matches. (At the height of the season last year, I was hitting between six and eight matches a month.)

Most of them have been cool with it. Some have not. But it's part of who I am.

The way I see it, I'm an adult, and the woman I'm dating is an adult. I'm not going to play childish games and try to hide how many guns or whatever that I own, and I don't expect her to have to do that either. Frankly, I find the notion of having to hide your gun collection from your wife or girlfriend to be pretty stupid.
 
Whenever I get crap for my guns I simply ask how many Coach, Louis, Prada purses she has along with how many Tag and Movado watches she has. It doesn't matter though in her eyes. I still spend too much on "useless" things I'll never use.
 
i made a similar mistake 2 times in 1 weeks........ first i told my dad how many guns i have... now hes no anti but was pissed since i was supposed to be saving for college

and then i was a bit intoxicated a few days later and let it slip to the girlfriend how many i had.... she told me to sell one and buy her "something shiny" i now have a new girlfriend
 
My wife is the devil on my shoulder at the gunshop. I can't afford to take her there anymore! She'll probably go down at the single greatest decision I ever made in my life.
 
I made a deal with my wife back when we first got married. I get 1/2 of whatever she spends on jewelry for my gun account. Every time she looks at something she adds 50% to price. Over the years she has picked up jewelry so valuable that insurance requires safety deposit box storage. She has been worth every penny. The money set aside I didn't want to spend has come in handy, mostly for buying her jewelry.

Best deal I ever made.

blindhari
 
Heck... My wife not only gave me the green light on a gun purchase, she enthusiastically did so. She knows what guns I have. I don't hide it. She's my best friend and I make sure I don't compromise us financially with an irresponsibly timed purchase.

That being said, I really don't have all that many firearms. Though I AM about to get a shotty for the house. I won't ask her permission - but I won't go hiding it either.
 
Already deep into page 4, but I'll throw this in there anyway.

Just a couple days ago I was sharing a joke about the Mosin with the wife. She asked, "What's a Mosin?" So I showed her a couple pics from a brief Google search...

She said, "That's bad-ass! Let's get one!" :D

She knows exactly how many guns are in the house, because half of 'em are hers!! ;)
 
Get right down to it my wife don't care how many I have, it was just there was three or four that came in without me showing them to her. I did show her a picture of repo of Gatlin gun, cost for it is $45,000.00 US her comments were HMM we could sell the other house cause that would look kool sitting in the living room. We have a policy in our marriage that has worked very well over the last 12yrs money we have all comes out of the same pocket. We just try to keep the other informed, which at time I do forget to tell her about. So guess I could say I have broth this upon my self. My first wife really liked my collection and only teased a giving a hard time. I walked in the house one night with a 1976 Winchester huggingmy outside leg while I walked pass her, and ole eagle eye caught it. ONly thing she said was WOW we gonanna keep that one arn'te we. Wound up giving it my best friend a few weeks later (You would have to understand that Tom and I were closer than any two brothers could be. He passed away a few yers back bu Iknow his nephew will treat it with same respect that I or my friend would. My first wife passed awaway in 1997 was torn bout if I should bury here with her faviorite hand gun or not. Honesty wiht your wife or significant other is the best policy.
 
Honesty is the best policy. Budgeting is also an important policy!

If your wife objects to your purchases on the basis of the money spent, work WITH her to create a household budget that earmarks some cash for each of you monthly. Her womanly purchases come out of hers, your guns come out of yours.

This works great for my wife and I, and it keeps everything very open and honest. Respect your best friend by being honest with her.
 
I am single and nobody gives a rat's behind how many guns I got, I am old enough that I am unlikely to change my ways now so anyone who is with me had better just get used to it. Anybody asks I just tell them I have more than I need and fewer than I want.
 
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my sympathies to you... :)

I was asked point blank "how many guns do you have" a year or two ago....

Let's just say Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers would have been hard pressed to keep up with me.

We're talkin' some serious tap dancing boys!
 
Guns? Do you mean weapons? I have a lot of weapons. Guns, knives, sharp sticks, spoons, I could kill a man with a spoon. But then we would have to replace the spoon. Where did we get our wedding set? We should think about going back there and getting those last few pieces we are missing. While out, lets go to lunch... I love that little Italian place. Did you know in Italy.......
 
My wife doesn't care how many guns I own. Before we were married she was really only interested in one gun I owned, but now that we're married she's kind of lost interest in all the guns.
 
labhound said:
Every time I have gone to look at guns the wife has gone with me.......and pays for the gun I want. I tell her that I feel guilty about her paying for them and her response is "get what you want", so I got a Beretta 92FS Inox. I might add that she enjoys target shooting, watching football, watching golf, and tells me she'll clean her own Beretta Cheetah. I wouldn't dare tell her she can't have anything she wants! :)
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Labhound does your wife have a sister???...If so maybe she'd consider emigrating to New Zealand...LOL.....well done mate.
 
Like some of the other posters, I don't really understand this situation. I doubt my wife could tell you how many guns I have, but she saw each and every one as soon as soon as it came in the house.

If you're competing with your partner over things that are important to either of you, you have problems that need to be worked out.
 
I am thinning the herd, because I made up my mind I want everything on 1911 platform.

9 handguns sat in my household; now I am looking to have a "his and hers" set.
 
My wife is cool with the ones I have. She has one S&W 9mm auto which she had before I got married. She even hit me with the shoe thing. She has one gun and a hundred pair of shoes and I have a few pair of shoes and a hundred guns. The problem is that she is dangerous when I am shopping for gun stuff. The other day I was on my computer looking at Sarges thinking of ordering a set of grips. She started looking over my shoulder and to make a long story short I ended up ordering three pair of grips. They ARE all "pretty" though.
 
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