Arsenal?
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armoredman
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NavyVet1959, reloading doesn't make it an arsenal in the media, that means you are a dangerous killer manufacturing your own messengers of death and hatred, a sick and twisted evil creature chortling away in your basement bunker over visions of rivers of blood dancing in your warped mind.
...or something like that.
...or something like that.
Aguila Blanca
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If it's a flock of firearms, shouldn't it be a gaggle of guns?bbqbob51 said:
Perhaps a pod of pistols?
(Yeah, just shoot me. I wasn't invited to do the stand-up bit at the White House Correspondents' Dinner so I have to sneak it in where I can.)
My friends often refer to my collection as a small armory, but I see it as a relatively modest milsurp collection with a few defensive firearms thrown in at best. That's about 20 guns. I KNOW some of you guys have me beat by triple or quadruple that or more. I'll catch up one day. The benefits of being young. 
tony pasley
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My modest collection has been classed as a museum on one side and ask if I was going to take over a small country, oh well.
armsmaster270
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sgms: Aren't those military grade weapons.
Romeo 33 Delta
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After 40+ years of collecting ... yes, I have an arsenal. Oh, and there are still firearms which I am looking for.
Brian Pfleuger
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I saw an example today of how it's not necessarily an anti-gun bias that brings about this label. I was watching "How It's Made." and they were showing molds for glass bowls. They're cast in iron and then an artisan carves a design into them. The narrator said He uses "an arsenal of chisels".... there were about 6 in the kit they showed.
SocialAnarchist
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I can tell you for darn sure if I ever won the lottery the amount, and type, of firearms I would own would qualify as an arsenal!
I wonder how much a 40 foot by 60 foot 2 story gun safe would cost?
I wonder how much a 40 foot by 60 foot 2 story gun safe would cost?
40 x 60 x 2 stories suggests an armory.
Perhaps this link would be a start - http://www.wbdg.org/design/armories.php. It also has links to relevant Army, Navy, and DOD standards.
Perhaps this link would be a start - http://www.wbdg.org/design/armories.php. It also has links to relevant Army, Navy, and DOD standards.
Romeo 33 Delta
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An arsenal of chisels .... hmmm, does that make a lifetime of buying and reading books an "arsenal of books"?
SPEMack618
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My girlfriend says I have entirely too many books and entirely too many guns. When I replied that she had entirely too many shoes, she assaulted me with one of said books. (Ban high capacity large format paperbacks!)
That being said, I've found a distressing trend in modern media to berate one for having "too much" of something, that "too much" often being decided based upon talking heads and editorial writers.
The recent trend of "arsenal" falls well within this convention.
That being said, I've found a distressing trend in modern media to berate one for having "too much" of something, that "too much" often being decided based upon talking heads and editorial writers.
The recent trend of "arsenal" falls well within this convention.
I have a gun library.
I toured a presidential library once and I don't remember seeing very many actual books. Mostly photos, white elephant gifts from foreign dignitaries, paintings, artifacts, etc. Really these monuments to a president should be called presidential museums.
I wonder if Grover Cleeveland has two presidential libraries, since he was POTUS# 22 and 24.
Romeo 33 Delta
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B.L.E. GUN LIBRARY ... I LOVE THAT!!!:d
Better "arsenal" than "armory" 
"I toured a presidential library once and I don't remember seeing very many actual books. Mostly photos, white elephant gifts from foreign dignitaries, paintings, artifacts, etc. Really these monuments to a president should be called presidential museums."
That wasn't H.W.'s library by any chance, was it? I remember at least four dozen golden scale-model palm trees from Middle Eastern nations on display, and tons of other cool swag. I agree that they are most definitely museums, but a "President XXXX Museum" sounds too obviously like vanity, rather than something high-minded like a 'library'
TCB
"I toured a presidential library once and I don't remember seeing very many actual books. Mostly photos, white elephant gifts from foreign dignitaries, paintings, artifacts, etc. Really these monuments to a president should be called presidential museums."
That wasn't H.W.'s library by any chance, was it? I remember at least four dozen golden scale-model palm trees from Middle Eastern nations on display, and tons of other cool swag. I agree that they are most definitely museums, but a "President XXXX Museum" sounds too obviously like vanity, rather than something high-minded like a 'library'
TCB
Spats McGee
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"Cache" is not so much related to how many guns are in it, as to how well it's hidden.
If you've done it right, it'll never be in the news.
If you've done it right, it'll never be in the news.
Picture yourself involved in a home invasion shooting. How would the media portray the number of guns and rounds of ammunition the authorities would catalog in your home? Kind of agree that if you own two guns or more and a few boxes of ammo, "arsenal" might be their go-to word.
My dictionary defines arsenal simply as "a collection of weapons" so I guess I qualify, and I'm guessing most folks here do too.
Cache -- "a group of things that have been hidden in a secret place because they are illegal or have been stolen."
So says Merriam Webster on my trusty iPhone.
My dictionary defines arsenal simply as "a collection of weapons" so I guess I qualify, and I'm guessing most folks here do too.
Cache -- "a group of things that have been hidden in a secret place because they are illegal or have been stolen."
So says Merriam Webster on my trusty iPhone.