"Many" Handguns

How many handguns is considered "Many"

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varoadking

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Folks may mention that they own "many" hanguns. It made me wonder what these folks consider the minimum it may take to qualify as "many."

Don't just vote according to what you may have - try to answer the question as posed...
 
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many is a subjective term relative to ones own opinion. I have many guns, yes and some people do not wish to put out numbers as they do not know who may be trolling the forums. I feel most people may consider many is more than 10. A lifetime of buying and collecting can add up in a hurry and usually a real gun advocate never stops buying, trading and browsing. Then one day you wake up and discover , OMG I'm one of those gun nuts!

Gun nuts is of course a term used by the media and usually LIBs to degrade the opinion of gun owners. I think many hobbies can become an obsession, and guns are no different.
 
It's hard not to use what you have as a guideline for the terms... afterall, if you can't apply your logic to your collection without the two banging heads, what the hell are you talking about?! :D

Given the choices, I think 2 is a "couple", 3 to 6 is "a few" and 6-10 is a "handful" and 11-16 is "many" and more than 16 would be "a damn heap."

Now when someone says "I have had many handguns" then it's all about the total count of everything that has ever spent time in their safe. For some folks, that number is out of my realm. Not because I'm cheap or broke or I don't love guns... but REALLY, it's because I rarely buy something that I won't like later and I almost never, EVER sell a gun... love 'em too much.
 
1: Only handgun
2-6: Coupl'a handguns
7-12: Many handguns
13-50: A lot of Handguns
50+: Investment Handguns

I fall into the 2-6 range... for now!
 
Just read N.H. Yankee's post... and as a Libertarian (the good kind of 'lib') I regard the term 'gun nut' as a badge of honor!
 
I figure if you can't count it on one hand (4 fingers and 1 thumb I included this to try and head off any questions about how many fingers anyone may or may not have) its many.
 
I average 1 or more new firearm purchases per month. Some months I hit 4. I am truly an addict. I have no idea how many firearms I own, but it is "many".
 
I voted 50-100.

That's "Many" to me.

I can't particularly label how many is "many", as it depends on every person.

Make upwards of $500K a year? a dozen handguns ain't many.
:D
 
thinking ahead, if you want to make sure every member of your family can have a handgun (and preferably a long gun) , even if they stop selling them for the next 3 generation (that is up to your grandchildren).

therefore
having 20+ is minimum :-)

then you have to cover all the 'major' calibers (just in case)

so you multiply that by 3 (9, 40, 45)

so we have 60+ as comfortable number :-)
 
I counted. I have an even dozen. I honestly never thought about it before. Truly coincidently, I chose 13-30 as "many" before I counted. I have probably owned as many as 15 or 16 at a time and have owned probably 50 over the years.
I am not a collector. I try to keep it down to "purpose-driven" guns. This one is super concealable, that one is a full size .45 semi for HD, one is a 9mm range gun, another 9mm EDC pocket pistol....
I admit to having a couple of "dupes" in function, just because. An S&W CS45 and a SIG P245, for instance.
I guess "many" is one more than you have a function for. I, then, am marginally "many".
There is no such number as "too many", though, so don't bother with that poll. :D

But right now I'm not driven to buy another and I plan to keep what I have.
I am kinda thing about getting a new shotgun, though. :p
 
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I've got 12 and have no intention of stopping. I like to buy a couple each year and do not like letting them go. I did sell a Bersa 40 that I couldn't get to cycle reliably. One thing about a gun. It's not going to go down in value. It's just too basic a tool to depreciate. I consider mine a rock solid savings account.

I don't have any long guns and probably won't get any. They're too hard to store and I don't hunt.
 
I consider mine a rock solid savings account.
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I agree when you say that the value doesn't go down, especially if you buy something of quality. But for me, it's less like a savings account and more like a piggy bank that has no rubber stopper on his belly and is completely indestructible. They don't go down in value, but I can't get cash out of them, ever.

I don't want to sell any gun I have. I don't ever want to be in the position to have to sell a gun. And I haven't gotten affluent enough to buy guns that I don't want enough to keep. I keep hoping that I will be the guy we've all read about on here before... you know, the guy who find a used Python for $250 and turns it around for $1,200. But beyond that, I buy guns because I really, really want 'em, and it's not too often where I change my mind about them.
 
I said 7-12. I think 6 or less is just a good basic collection, hopefully with some variety. Once you're over that, you're collection is starting to get big(ish) IMHO. But hey I only have like 3 so... :D
 
7-12 or more

is many to me:D

1-6 you just gettin started (hooked) :D

Once you get over 30 of 'em, now thats a 'shootload' :D (still workin' on that, have 17 now) :D
 
I consider mine a rock solid savings account.
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Yeah, really. I mean if things every really *do* go to crap, alot of people would go "oh no, I have no way to defend my family/home/posessions/whatever" and would pay alot for a gun. (like if they got guns banned and then rule of law collapsed, say)
 
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