Originally Posted by TTSH

It sounds like you and sigp220 epitomize a different approach to being a gun enthusiast that I've only recently come to appreciate actually exists. Brother Arik probably falls into the same category. If you have sold many more guns than you currently own, you probably fall into that category. I'd give it a name (gun trading enthusiast? firearms experimenter? transitional collector? "must-try-them-all" hobbyist? chronic bad decision maker? ) but I can't think of one name that encompasses all the reasons one might have for selling or trading off so many guns years before the long dirt nap.

I fall into the other category. I buy for keeps. Even the plastic ones. That's why the 5 I have sold in the past are still so painful... and why the ones I will now have to sell in order to complete my bucket list are going to hurt even more.