WHY DO YOU BUY A GUN ?

I have always wanted to own a firearm and after some brief affairs with friend's guns I promised myself....tomorrow,tomorrow.
Life ,marriage,careers,mortgages intervened and it wasn't until I got to my 49'th birthday that I promised myself that before I'm 50 I will own a gun.
Living in New Jersey just getting a FID and P2P proves to be a lesson in perseverance and persevere I did.
Almost 4 years and a major investment in time and resources later I own 5 iconic hand guns and 2 long guns.
I buy a gun because I fell in love with the feel,heft and almost poetic elegance of the engineering that goes into a crafted firearm.
I buy a gun to feel the bridled power and potential lethality of it's being.
I buy a gun because as an American....I can.
 
I bought my first gun because I enjoyed plinking and bought my second so I could hunt.Continued in that vein for a long time and finally developed an interest in finding very good examples of long out of production guns that I had wanted when I was young,but couldn't afford.
 
I bought a few guns, to diversify from my other addiction!! :D

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Hand painted flames instead of new grips for the 629!!

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AND, I found this is NOT a picnic bench that my neighbor built for me! :eek:

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My wife uses it for processing tomatoes. :rolleyes:

It is aimed at our apple orchard and the marauding squirrels. :(
 
joeintexas said:
Cause a cop is too heavy to carry around.:D
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And a firearm is more reliable. :eek:

I buy because I can, you never know when you won't be able to. I also buy when I find them so cheap that you can't pass them up, most are a good investment. I have some I bought years ago and have never shot, just because I'm lazy and have others to shoot. I've gotten some by trading.
 
I have already owned all the guns I need over 50 years ago. Then for the next 30 years I fine tuned them by buying, testing, selling and replacing and accumulating them. I probley can outfit a platoon or two. I have almost quit buying guns. Once in a great while I will see something I want, (never need) and buy it. I would estimate I have only bought 5 or 6 in the last 20 years. I really need to start selling off some at my age but cant make myself to do it just yet. Kind of like buying a gravestone.
For quite some time now I have to fight with common sense when I see guns that turn me on.
 
Hello my name if OP, I buy them because I am a hoarder with an obsessive compulsive disorder. And I think revolvers are beautiful and I think Gen3 semi's are beautiful and I think....well you get the picture.
 
Over the years I have bought the guns that appealed to me. They were not necessarily what someone else would like. They were the guns I liked/like. That is still how I buy guns.

However, occasionally I've seen something for sale that I recognized was a good gun at a good or even great price. I bought those guns not because I wanted to keep them but because I had/have a family to provide for. I bought those guns and later sold them using the proceeds for my wife and children. On a few occasions I've been able to surprise my wife with nice jewelry paid for with the proceeds of a gun sale. As well while my daughters were in college, there were semesters where the tuition and attendant costs were paid for by the sale of guns that I'd bought for no other purpose than to fund those costs.

Since the girls graduated, I've not been buying guns for any reason other than whether or not I wanted/liked the gun. So... a NIB 21-4 came home w/ me. The price was excellent and I'd long wanted a M&P style .44 Special. Cool. I replaced a long gone 15-3 by trading off a replaceable Glock 22. A 4" 28-2 came home to keep my 6" 28-2 company. And recently a 6" 686-1 came home... to replace one I foolishly let get away when once upon a time I was thoughtless about what I really wanted. I did not get all these guns for bottom dollar. But, I got these guns. And if I paid $25-50 more than was ideal, nevertheless I now have these guns. The cash was far better spent than if it had been frittered away on hamburgers and french fries.

It is now Saturday, just about lunch time. I am about to watch our local HS team play for the state championship. Go Eagles! Later this afternoon I will enjoy cleaning some of my revolvers while I read over my Bible and prepare to lead the services tomorrow! The other day I made visits at the nursing home and a couple of hospitals. On the way home I took my 18-3 and 686-1 and dropped by the range for a little quality time shooting. That's why I bought those revolvers, to shoot and enjoy. Sincerely. brucev.
 
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Onomea said:
...I find myself thinking, these days, about cutting back...

I might say, back off to a Win 94, a K22, and an M65. That really does about cover it. For me.
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Having raised a large family on a working cops salary the financial roller coaster ride has brought me to this end several times in my life.

Which tends to make one focus between "wants" and "needs".

Fortunately nowadays I can pretty much buy what I want, but tend to stick the the basics of what's "fun to shoot" over artsy fartsy stuff that in the words of Chief Dan George "Is just for looking at".
 
I buy because that's what our founding fathers decided was one of our God given rights. Several hundred thousand Americans gave their lives during the past several hundred years to protect and ensure that right, among others.

I have been a gun person since I was old enough to know what one was. Probably from about 1951 or so. I still have most of my treasured cap guns from that long ago era. I'm sure many members here can remember the hours spent playing cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians and army. As a youngster I was generally well armed with a favorite cap pistol or a Daisy air rifle when outside playing. We always kept a large supply of roll caps on hand.

No real guns in the house while I was growing up as Mom & Dad saw no need for them and would not allow any in the house. That didn't deter me from wanting any number of them.

While I did own a few firearms in my adulthood, it was about 6 years ago that I finally decided I owed it to myself to indulge in a S&W M17. That was the start of it. Be it addiction or passion, I have found older S&W blued revolvers to be a must have commodity.

My collection is probably meager, compared to some members here, but I love all that I have and generally shoot all of them on a rotating basis.

Lets make sure we do our part to ensure our grandchildren and their grandchildren enjoy the same rights those founding fathers afforded us.

LTC
 
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