You need to become a little concerned when you start designing a new house around your gun's. I do know a few that do have in excess of 300 guns, one way in excess.
WHEN DO YOU OWN TO MANY GUNS??
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quneur
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When you start thinking of the word 'arsenal' instead of 'collection'.
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When I buy a new gun and have to spend 5 hours re-arranging things in the safe just to fit it in!
I just sold two guns that I had not shot in many years. A Belgium Browning Hi-Power and a Colt Huntsman. Fine guns, but they just had no real appeal to me anymore. Sold them and bought a NIB (unfired) Colt Series 70 Gold Cup new in the box from 1974. That one gets used every week, and I have not looked back!
Chief38
I just sold two guns that I had not shot in many years. A Belgium Browning Hi-Power and a Colt Huntsman. Fine guns, but they just had no real appeal to me anymore. Sold them and bought a NIB (unfired) Colt Series 70 Gold Cup new in the box from 1974. That one gets used every week, and I have not looked back!
Chief38
I ponder and fight with myself over this question a couple times a year.
When it gets to where you need to buy another safe before another gun can be bought, you best think about it. I get to this point about every other year.
When you open your safe and see dust on the guns, you might have too many guns. I am still trying to find out how dust can get inside a locked safe.
I have four guns that I handle often. I have two that I shoot often. The rest collects dust. I still search for and buy more.
How many guns does a person really need? Yes, there is a profit that can be made in selling guns but a person has to sell them first.
Yet we can each say that if we want another gun and can afford another gun, what does it hurt if we buy another gun?
Age can also be a factor in owning guns. If one is 75 yrs of age, it may be time to slow the purchasing down and sell off a few to keep family members from giving them away. Remember, estate sales are natures way of selling off guns and losing money on them. Last year I was able to get a really nice Colt 1911 at an estate sale. The deceased owner probably was turning over in his grave at the low price I got it for. His family did not care, they wanted the cash and not the guns.
When it gets to where you need to buy another safe before another gun can be bought, you best think about it. I get to this point about every other year.
When you open your safe and see dust on the guns, you might have too many guns. I am still trying to find out how dust can get inside a locked safe.
I have four guns that I handle often. I have two that I shoot often. The rest collects dust. I still search for and buy more.
How many guns does a person really need? Yes, there is a profit that can be made in selling guns but a person has to sell them first.
Yet we can each say that if we want another gun and can afford another gun, what does it hurt if we buy another gun?
Age can also be a factor in owning guns. If one is 75 yrs of age, it may be time to slow the purchasing down and sell off a few to keep family members from giving them away. Remember, estate sales are natures way of selling off guns and losing money on them. Last year I was able to get a really nice Colt 1911 at an estate sale. The deceased owner probably was turning over in his grave at the low price I got it for. His family did not care, they wanted the cash and not the guns.
jbcap
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These is no such thing as to many guns, only more than the current safes can hold. Solution, go buy another safe or two.
johnsonl
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I feel better about my 25-ish or so. I'm going to keep it to one 14 gun locker full.
Until I retire and hit the Virginia/Carolina Gun Show circuit, that is.
Until I retire and hit the Virginia/Carolina Gun Show circuit, that is.
safearm
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I don't know what my definition of "too many" is, but I do know what is enough.
Straightshooter2
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When you tell the Fire Chief, "If my house is ever burning, don't risk your men's lives because of all the guns and ammunition. Just watch it burn from the top of the hill and then put out the embers." My cousin lives in a rural area on a couple hundred acres and this is exactly what he told the county Fire Chief.
CW
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Too many to do what? Let's be more specific here. I have too many to carry at once. I can still walk around the house and not see one, although there's plenty of evidence that I own guns. Gosh, I'm nowhere near my first 100. I've got some catching up to do!
mike from st pete
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I've got too many and need to reduce the collection. I want to get down to just a couple of centerfire cartridge calibers. And just one gun of each, well maybe two...
Oh no here I go again.
Oh no here I go again.
ibthumper
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This attitude is all too common in The People's Republik. Especially in Sacramento...
It's come down to what the GOVERNMENT
eek thinks is the right amount.If you enjoy shooting and gun collecting, then I don't believe you can have too many or too much of something you like to do.
However, here's a ratio I explain to my friends, 'A man should have one gun for every pair of shoes his wife owns.'
Dan
However, here's a ratio I explain to my friends, 'A man should have one gun for every pair of shoes his wife owns.'
Dan
gjgalligan
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Guns are like children:
If you have more then you can afford to feed then you have too many!
(and that fits me with the price of ammo these days!)
If you have more then you can afford to feed then you have too many!
(and that fits me with the price of ammo these days!)
Joni_Lynn
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If I had anywhere near as many pair of shoes as guns I'd have a severe problem.
My take on owning too many guns is this,
1) My purchases do not affect my ability to pay bills or my family's finical future, ie college, vacations, retirement, ect..
2) All my safes are full and I have no more room for safes and I do not want to upgrade anything in said safes,or move to a larger home.
3) I am too old, blind, weak or bedridden to buy more.
4) The government or a future government for what every reason will not allow me to purchase more.
Penmon aka too many guns or Jim
1) My purchases do not affect my ability to pay bills or my family's finical future, ie college, vacations, retirement, ect..
2) All my safes are full and I have no more room for safes and I do not want to upgrade anything in said safes,or move to a larger home.
3) I am too old, blind, weak or bedridden to buy more.
4) The government or a future government for what every reason will not allow me to purchase more.
Penmon aka too many guns or Jim
CelticSire
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I really have no basis of knowledge for answering this question as I do not own any firearms.
(My daughters have a sizeable collection that I store for them, however.)
(My daughters have a sizeable collection that I store for them, however.)
rburg
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Darn, I thought you lost them in the boating accident.
nogoodnamesleft
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I guess when you're going to be on the show 'Hoarders' because you have to make pathways in the house to reach the lazyboy you MAY have a few too many handguns.
But then again, unless you are defecating in plastic bags because you can't reach the toilet, I don't think you CAN own too many guns.
But then again, unless you are defecating in plastic bags because you can't reach the toilet, I don't think you CAN own too many guns.
nogoodnamesleft
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But unlike those pesky kids, you don't have to feed your guns everyday, and if you've got a favorite, you can just feed THAT one!
Mule88
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Actually...Never!
DevilDog72
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nope
nope not in this life anyway
nope not in this life anyway
Gutpile Charlie
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You own too many guns when you can't find a place to put another one!
When to bring one home you have to let one go.
This is a bad circumstance because irrational attachment to the one that needs to be let go could keep you from getting the one for which you've been waiting a long time.
The key to victory is room to maneuver. Never let yourself get boxed in.
This is a bad circumstance because irrational attachment to the one that needs to be let go could keep you from getting the one for which you've been waiting a long time.
The key to victory is room to maneuver. Never let yourself get boxed in.
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Unlike kids, when you tire of a gun you can sell it legally.
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