When I was young I wanted pythons...27s...19s...36s...17s....ect as I grew older I bought some...traded more and now as an older person....money not being an issue I am trying 2 buy back my youth. Revolvers..browning A5 20lites...and double autos...colt diamond backs/pythons.....I have bought all these...and have never shot most....I sleep better knowing I have them! Am I the only one that does this???

Naw. I'm pretty much the same way. When I was a young fellow I spent hours upon hours studying the Shooters Bible and Gun Digest. Other teens fantasized over the Playboy centerfold. I wanted a double page spread of a Model 19, or a Python.

I've owned most of those guns over the years. Problem is I didn't hold onto them. I'd buy one, shoot it a while, then some other bright shiny thing caught my eye, and the last thing I couldn't live without went on the sale/trade block to fund the next one. I've probably had over a hundred just Smith and Wesson revolvers in my time, and that's not counting other manufacturers or semi-auto's. Rifles and shotguns never really interested me.

These days, I'm replacing the guns I really liked but foolishly let go. A Model 28, 15, K-22, 19, a Colt Python, those type things. I'll still sell/trade once in a while even now, but I am holding onto them longer and shooting them more.

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John 3:16 .

My first shotgun was a double auto my grandfather used to teach me how to miss pheasants with. Still have it. You cannot buy back your youth any more than you can buy another day of life.Just do what makes you happy.

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My Daddy was a pistol..

I’ve sold more good guns than most people have ever owned.

It’s called “possession”.
Do I need all these guns? Doesn’t matter. I possess them because I can and it makes me happy, whether I shoot them or not.
The guns I own were the ones that someone probably apprenticed years, learning to hand machine before they were ever allowed to work on guns leaving the mothership.
I appreciate these as artwork.

If I had the financial means, I would do the same. But fixed retirement income and little social security does not go very far these days. Other priorities over buying firearms. I have gone the opposite direction lately, thinning down the herd to 8 handguns and 1 shotgun at the present time, and that will probably stay that way. In the past 50+ years of buying, selling, and trading handguns mostly, and a few long guns, I have owned literally hundreds, if not thousands of firearms. But I'm not complaining about my current state. I am in reasonably good physical health compared to a lot of people my age and have a fine family. I would like to be able to buy back some other things in my past, if you know what I mean!!! Good luck in your endeavors and stay well.

I read this and thought I wrote it.
No, you aren’t the only one that does this. I do the same thing and I do sleep better knowing that I have them. Kinda hard to explain that to my wife but after 62 years she’s used to it.

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James
On the Llano Estacado

Ditto all the posts that mirror the OP's. 45 years of gun shows and I've sold more guns than most people have owned. Although I'm not buying back those I shouldn't have sold. Too old to start now. Just enjoying the ones I have.

That WWI and Wii II Luger 9mm with Wehrmacht markings among a few others still evade me, but it is fun to stay on the hunt and to not be "finished".

Just make sure the guns don’t own you.

Uh....no
I'm in the situation much like yours; Retired three years ago, work part time to stay sane and make some extra money, which is not at all needed in our monthly budget. It is very nice to go to auctions and gun shows and gun shops and see a gun I have always wanted and be able to purchase it. When I buy guns, they DO get shot; not one to "collect" guns just to say I have them.

I grew up poor and hungry in the late 50s and early 60s. I could only look at the pics of the guns that I wanted. Now retired at the old age of 78 I can afford any gun I want. So I have acquired all the guns that I wanted in my youth. Too many in fact. Some are buried in gun safes and have never been fired. Read the post above about your guns owning you. But...I get great satisfaction just from owning them. Die with unspent money in the bank or unfired guns in the safe. Does it really matter?

You sell guns you really like? I just don't get a thrill out of buying the same model gun back three times. I have kept some competition guns that I shot over 30K rounds, and then rebuilt for the nostalgia, I suppose, when rules change and make them obsolete. I'd rather shoot a slick 6 shot K frame in ICORE Classic than the latest Carry Optic. I have a friend who always is buying the "latest thrill" then wanting me to tune it for him. Whatever floats your boat.

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Science plus Art

No, I wish I could just limit it to guns.

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I have, by a different set of circumstances than most, been able to buy and mostly keep the guns of my desires pretty much all of my adulthood. When I was younger I was “in the business” and so had ready access to a dazzling array of firearms often at wholesale prices. Now I’ve moved on to a different industry but luckily it pays enough that I can more or less afford whatever I want gun wise. So the accumulation continues.

BUT, I shoot all of them, and regularly. I make it my mission to wear them out, not through neglect or carelessness but just through use. They were made to use and I’m fortunate to have a shooting range, casting and reloading setup, money and time. Shoot every week of the year, sometimes several days a week. If I happen to shoot something absolutely to death I’ll hang it on a peg and consider it a job well done.