How many guns do you need to own before you are a certified gun nut?

[NKJ nut]

I have only 1 and it is not mine its issued by the county.I hate it so much I leave it outside on the step.I cant have a evil killing machine like a gun in my home.I almost cry knowing its even near me.

Please don't cry, little one. It's going to be OK. Is the gun on the front step or the back? Where do you live?

 

[Maximumbob54]

I feel the need to confess some more on this –

I have bought guns because a girlfriend said it was her or the guns…

I have bought guns that were possibly going to be banned by political agenda garbage before prices shot up…

I have bought guns only because I found a good deal on ammo and didn't have a gun to shoot it…

I have bought guns because I found a good deal on brass and didn't have a gun to shoot my reloaded ammo I started making…

I have bought guns since I had an interest in some new to me ammo design like the .357 Sig…

Now my madness has me buying bullet molds that I like when I don't even have a gun chambered for that bullet…

I'm not sure how it will get worse than that…

Oh, and the current girl likes that I own guns and has even bought a few for herself now.

 

[Cooter Brown]

At last count I had over a dozen hammers of different types.

Does that make me a hammer nut?

 

[brucev]

Yes, you can be a gun nut even if you own one. But what is the range when you are certifiable? I have 19 (rifles, shotguns, revolvers, and 1 pistol).

Curious how large the collections are out there.

For the unbiased uniformed... maybe more than one. For the left-wing whatever's, even one is to many. But for people who are informed, etc., i.e., rational people... an arbitrary number is just, well, arbitrary.

 

[glenncal1]

I have only 1 and it is not mine its issued by the county.I hate it so much I leave it outside on the step.I cant have a evil killing machine like a gun in my home.I almost cry knowing its even near me.

You see this is why you need a bunch of guns, having 20 or 30 or 200 helps you get over this fear, kind of like the reverse of aversion therapy. When you realize that the bunch of guns in your safe and the one by your bedside and the one on your hip aren't going to hurt you you sleep better.

 

[randy g]

Thats just a little starter kit, nothing to worry about.

 

[27145]

I think when you put on a jacket you havent worn in a while, instead of being gleefully happy that you found a $20 bill, it's a gun.

 

[CelticSire]

Don't know, but when you find out, you can buy one of these.

Certified Gun Nut Wall Clock by cgn_2- 397990579

 

[JimSupica]

oh kewl! I can get certified?

 

[wbraswell]

Actually down here, we don't have certification. It's covered by the state. You just tell the Brady-hugger "I'm from Texas." and they roll their eyes, mumble "un-huh." and usually walk away.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

To qualify you need just one. Later on they just seem to pile up. Then the reloading, gun safes,insurance,etc. I think I qualified about age 6.

 

[RobertJ.]

I think it has more to do with how much time you spend thinking about and studying guns and gun related stuff than with the actual number you own. I've been a gun nut ever since I can remember, my dad was fresh out of the Marines when I was little, and I had the most awesome arsenal of toy guns you can imagine. He had a Beretta Minx he'd let me handle, it seemed big way back then. My Grandma would take me to the little shooting gallery that used to be here, starting at about age six, and I'd get to shoot real rifles, Browning Autos with a gallery load. When I was nine, we moved to SE Alaska, that's when I started shooting seriously. I read everything gun related I could get my hands on, and writers like Elmer Keith, Jeff Cooper, Col. Charles Askins, and Jack O'Conner were my favorites. I bought my first rifle from a neighbor when I was eleven, it was a 7.65 Argentine Mauser. I paid 30 bucks for it, and killed my first two deer with it. I've never NOT been a "gun nut".

 

[pharmer]

To the looney left, if you like guns and think it's OK for "normal" folks to have them, you are a "gun nut." You don't have to own any at all. Joe

 

[MNruss]

My wife says I'm certified,

Or was that certifiable?
So I can tell you exactly how many.
You need to have - wait, I gotta answer the phone...

 

[john3136]

In Australia owning one gun makes you a gun nut.

 

[Shooting4life]

Just one more is always the correct answer.

 

[NCTexan]

Enough that your wife can't tell when you add another one to "the collection".

 

[DavidA]

Don't know, don't care. I like my guns!

 

[Aubie]

He who dies with the most wins.........

 

[DOEBOY1]

I think its just something you have to asspire to. Kind of if you think you're crazy you're probably not. Doeboy