Are you a gun addict?

[NRAhighpowershooter]

well.. lesse... back in the late 80's I had something like 12 or 13 firearms.. I was down to only 3 or 4 by the mid 90's.. When I was forceably retired 6 1/2 years ago I only had 7 or 8 firearms. Now.. I have over 60 of a mixed combo of handguns and long guns. I told my back doctor it's my therapy.

[s281c]

Hmm, well they say the first step to a cure is to admit your addiction............

With that said.........I'm not an addict, I'm not an addict, I'm not an addict........

And let's not forget having multiple saved searches on gunbroker.com, for all the guns you're looking for........

[Pido11]

Since my first gun purchase in less than a year I have purchased 9 guns. I now believe that I am an gun addict. Heres a few of the symptoms of a gun addict.

1.When You start saving money by skipping meals to fund gun purchases.

2. When you go to the range you have trouble deciding which guns to take that can fit in your car.

3. When your friends and family ask how many guns you have and you lie, so they dont think your some crazed gunmen.

4. When you wake up in cold sweats dreaming that someone bought "the one of a kind gun" that you saw the day before.

5. When you start to think about where you could put the new gun safe because your old one only holds 20.

6. When you come on calguns.net 5 times a day to check if any of your guns have been listed by the DOJ.

7. Your significant other's birthday present is a gun that you wanted yourself.

If you got anymore go ahead and ad.

When you reload your own ammo.

[radioactivelego]

When you decide to go on a milsurp impulse buying rampage and your hands have a continuous, light film of cosmoline for the next 90 days.

[TMC]

When you buy dies, bullets and cases for calibers you don't own guns in....yet.

[magmaster]

Dude you already have a .45 why do you need another one? Because this one is different...

Of course we are! I think all of us on here are gun nuts and we will always want more

[Pulsar]

1.When You start saving money by skipping meals to fund gun purchases.
Yup

2. When you go to the range you have trouble deciding which guns to take that can fit in your car.
And all the ammo cans

3. When your friends and family ask how many guns you have and you lie, so they dont think your some crazed gunmen.
I say I've got 19, and when they ask why, I have to explain because each gun operates differently, gotta have a safety breach, a cone breach, a straight breach, a double action revolver in both Colt and S&W, and a single action revolver in both Colt and S&W, need a double action auto, and a single action auto etc...

4. When you wake up in cold sweats dreaming that someone bought "the one of a kind gun" that you saw the day before.

I missed my chance at the Superposed
6. When you come on calguns.net 5 times a day to check if any of your guns have been listed by the DOJ.
Not looking for DOJ stuff, looking for stuff in the for sale area.

7. Your significant other's birthday present is a gun that you wanted yourself.
No significant other, though I have bought guns for my parents.

8. When your on a first name basis at the gunstore and they have a calender marking your 30 days cycles

I swear I can hear him grone when I call

11.When the you have weekly "appontment" at the gun range
Don't use a range, just go out in the desert and shoot rocks

12.When ammunition is monthly expense

getting there

13.When the guy at the Walmart ammo counter stops asking why you are buying so much ammunition
Don't by my ammo at walmart, usually wait till reno gun show and buy everything I need for the next three months, usually have to bring slaves

and my own:

14: you keep buying ammo because you kept fearing serialization of ammo coming anyday now.

I could never keep enough ammo around, it get's shot way too fast.

15: you keep cruising Gunsamerica just to curse at how much we are getting ripped off in KA.
Usually gunbroker

16: When you tried for years to establish residency in Kern or Humbolt county for CCW.
Born and raised, and still a resident of Humboldt, so it's not an issue, and I'm getting my CCW next month.

17: your number of loaded hidden away guns outnumber the number of rooms in your house.
Only my 870 stays loaded

18: when you hear the "1911 Fur Seal Treaty" you think "hot damn, they used to hunt fur seals with 45s?"
Sweet, I want to see some video of this

19: you discriminate gun purchase by its country of origin.
I only discriminate on the quality, not the country

20: your local Big5 long gun department tells you of their latest deals every time you go in there for a brick of 22 and try to get you to buy another one.
Never purchased a single gun from Big 5

21: when your guns outweigh you whenever you go to the range.
Yup

My own.

22.When you are examining your gun collection, you discover a gun you forgot you had.

[Runtagua]

When you realize you may need to purchase another safe and think an undergound vault/bunker maybe more practical.

[Altahick]

22.When you are examining your gun collection, you discover a gun you forgot you had.

ok this one right here is my grandpa, every once in a while i look in his closet or behind a door or something, and say grandpa when did u get this gun "oh i forgot i even had that one" then i usually say il buy it off u for 50 bucks, and it sometimes works thats how i got my mosin m44

[CowtownBallin]

ok this one right here is my grandpa, every once in a while i look in his closet or behind a door or something, and say grandpa when did u get this gun "oh i forgot i even had that one" then i usually say il buy it off u for 50 bucks, and it sometimes works thats how i got my mosin m44

It is my goal to grow up to be just like your grandpa, selling guns I forgot I had to my grandkids...awesome...

[Altahick]

yeah my grandpa is awesome, if it wasent for him i probably wouldnt even know how to shoot a gun. thank god for grandpa's

[50 Freak]

Simple way to know if you have an addiction.

Quick...How many guns do you have?????





If you can't answer that without taking a few minutes/hours to do a mental inventory...then you sadly have a gun addiction.

[s281c]

Simple way to know if you have an addiction.

Quick...How many guns do you have?????





If you can't answer that without taking a few minutes/hours to do a mental inventory...then you sadly have a gun addiction.

Hmm, I can't answer that without pulling up the spreadsheet I use to keep my guns inventoried........

[Ech0Sierra]

1. You've ever bragged about the size of the groups your semi-auto throws with its empty brass.

2. Your primary cubicle decoration at work or on your fridge at home is your best target group.

3. Your guns are cleaner than your home.

4. You tag pages in SGN/GL for later reference.

5. You'd rather have a $10,000 PSG-1 and drive a $600 car rather than drive a $10,000 car and have a $600 gun.

6. You rather ban alcohol than hi-cap clips/mags.

7. If a topless joint with free admission is half a mile away, and instead you drive 40 miles to the shooting range on a Saturday night.

8. You alternate silvertips and hydra-shocks in your magazines because they look prettier that way.

9. You watch La Femme Nikita just to see the HK MP5s.

10. You can't figure out why your non-shooting friends laugh when you say "Bushmaster".

11. You collect brass even though you only buy factory ammo.

12. If "Miller Time" means plinking at beer cans.

13. If the highlight of your week is discovering that six .40 SW hollowpoints fit perfectly in a plastic 35mm film canister. (5 up/1 down in the middle).

14. You ever had to explain "It's not the SAME gun, it's a different VARIANT".

15. You read the sports section/classifieds just for the gun ads.

16. When someone talks about 12 gauge steel, you wonder if it has anything in common with shotguns.

17. You can spot spent brass at 50 paces.

18. You pick up brass in calibers you don't shoot, just in case.

19. You have a drawer full of holsters that weren't quite right (don't we all?).

20. You watch old WWII movies and can identify and look at all the rifles and handguns but can't remember who starred in the movie or what it was about.

21. You buy a gun that is a duplicate of one you already have because the original one might break someday.

22. If 30.06 or 8X57 to you is just as appealing as 36-24-36.

23. You drive over fifty miles to buy anything gun-related.

24. You own more than two loading presses.

25. Your non-handloading friends bring you their empty brass instead of throwing it away.

26. You start feeling uneasy if you have fewer than 500 rounds on hand for your favorite shooter.

27. You reflexively count the number of shots fired by every weapon in the film,then gripe to your friends when the guns exceed the capacities.

28. You make $50 per hour at work, but spend 30 minutes on your knees at the range looking for that last piece of reloadable brass.

29. You read 300-400 messages on CalGuns every day, in addition to being subscribed to the Glock, SIG, HK, Kahr, Tactics, IPSC, and IDPA mailing lists, and you still wish there was more to do in the Internet firearms community.

30. Your telephone number is: 223-2250 or 308-3006 or 303-3040 or some other combination of three + four digit calibers.

31. You think there is some special significance when you glance at a digital clock and it shows 3:08, 3:57, 2:23, etc., no matter how many times you see it.

32. You go to the range just to hang out.

33. You consider concealed carry every time you shop for clothes.

34. You order a new model HK handgun BEFORE your H&K stocking dealer has even heard about it, and BEFORE there is even a set wholesale price on the gun. :-)

35. If your wife/girlfriend starts using Hoppes No. 9 instead of perfume to get your attention.

36. If all your computer passwords are firearms related.

37. You read CalGuns before your morning coffee.

38. You tape American Shooter so you can pause, reverse and fast forward to do a complete analysis of the show.

39. You visit the range more then twice a week.

40. Your wife says to buy a gun she would like you to sell one first (not funny but common).

41. You teenage daughter's next date is introduced to you while your sitting at the loading bench cleaning your M-1.

42. You approach total strangers and ask if they're going to keep their brass.

43. You've ever photographed your entire gun collection, but "insurance purposes" never entered your mind.

44. You let your wife go out and blow all kinds of money on junk she'll never use just so she won't gripe when you buy that latest piece you really need for your collection.

45. You're in the army reserves, and they can't figure out why every time they send you out to shoot the M60 with 100 rounds, you return with a shot-out barrel. It never dawns on them you're bringing your own ammo.

[azndmd]

EchOSierra....
+1....I wonder how many of us recognize ourselves in all the previous posts.