Almost Enough Guns But...

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That's a trap. Never let the enough question happen. Guns have monetary value, even when you shoot them. Don't get caught comparing to shoes, purses, etc. Guns are like cash. Can you ever have enough? Or worse too much?
 
The cat - Watson - never complains or questions me about buying another gun.

I used to married. Now I have a cat. There's a lesson there somewhere.
 
I make the mistake last summer of stating to my wife that I had acquired all the firearms that I "needed".

She called me out on that back in the winter when I started talking about finding a Hi-Power. I had to tell explain that just because I don't need another gun doesn't mean I won't always want more.

Luckily we both have separate budgets for non-essential items so she really doesn't care what I buy. She can buy all the shoes she wants with her money, and I'll buy a second gun safe if I fill up the first one using my money!
 
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The Tarzan Zerbini circus wintered a few miles from here. Yes, there really is a Tarzan Zerbini circus, look it up if you have doubts. Just a few miles north of my home, four or five elephants and a dozen African cats were caged up with nobody but a bunch of worn out old carneys to keep us safe. If Otis fell asleep and the gorilla got the keys and let out all of those dangerous critters, who would save the day?

It won't be the ten year old with a red Ryder, it's going to be the guy who talked his wife into getting him a .500 NE double rifle.

Remind your wife that the world is a dangerous place.
 
Did you not determine the memo? There is actually a mathematical formula. If X represents the number of firearms you have, the perfect amount will always be X+1. By the way it is also an unspoken competition. Whoever dies with the most guns, wins!
 
An addition to the circus story, about twenty years ago, a guy passed through with a horse trailer that didn't have a horse in it. It had a zebra. He stopped at the truck stop southeast of two, and while he was off doing whatever he was doing, it kicked the gate loose and escaped. It was four days, iirc, before it was found, and it had covered a lot of territory. My wife asked me why I wasn't out looking for it. What does one say?

"If I had a zebra gun, I might be."

She asked "why can't you use your deer rifle!?"

If you are ever asked that question, you must roll your eyes, and not answer.
 
She has gone to putt putt. She knows that a person can get by with only one club.

Now HERE'S my plan.

"Do you really need the digital version of ******? For the love of God, you have it on l.p., tape, CD, remastered, and even the concert video on DVD!"

Oh, you want to talk about sudden cold spots in a haunted room?
 
Almost is the key word. You can always have 'almost' enough, but it's not really possible to go beyond that.. And as far as how many do you need... need has absolutely nothing to do with it when it comes to gun acquisitions.
 
I think there is a place for "need" when acquiring a firearm but, in North America at least, only three long gun, firearm types are needed and they are represented by the only three guns my grandfather (an avid, lifelong hunter of birds and deer) ever owned but owned all of his life: a .22 rf rifle, a 30-06 rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun.

When it comes to handguns, of course, the minimum number needed is fifty. At least.
 
Safe with known only to you combo and various sizes of gun cases that are known...what's IN them may and will change, but the outside remains the same....
 
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