My wife does not like me buying pistols.
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SmellyShooter
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My wife is mostly supportive of us having guns, she's just not a shooter. That being said, she does hate spending money so that's always my trouble. Guns ain't cheap.
mrbentley57
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When I bought my 1st semi auto pistol my wife insisted I store then outside of the house. I rented a secure storage locker. She is not anti gun just protective of children. Its was Thanksgiving weekend and we had a lot of the grown children and spouses home. I took a couple of them to the shooting range the day after. Then on Saturday a couple more wanted to go. Of course they all had a blast. Well the following Monday, when the house was empty, my wife asked if I wouldn't mind taking her to learn / try her hand at shooting. She fell in love with shooting targets immediately. Although she had no interest in revolvers. She just liked the semi autos. The rest as they say is history, She owns 9 or 10 of her own now. Shoots USPSA and steel challenge. When I bring or buy a new gun, it's hers and mine as long as it is 9mm or smaller. The larger calibers are just mine. We have been marred 38 years and this works out great. I brought home a CZ 75 SP01 Phantom and 3 Beretta Cheetahs this week. 2 85Fs and an 84. I showed them to her and then put them in my safe. in our house. That's how I got around the offsite rule and how I can pretty much buy any gun I want. I involved her in the process.
@USNRet93
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Some get used more than others. I try and get out and shoot them all at least once a year...familiarization range day
@Leaf
Given my service provider is German (working in Afghanistan) and I religiously use a VPN...but yeah, there's some predators out there...
@2wheelwandar
Good eye! S&W 3913. I just happened across a good deal. It was in almost like-new condition. I already had about a dozen magazines, so it only made sense to pick up the 3913
ROCK6
eeny meeny mini moe
Some get used more than others. I try and get out and shoot them all at least once a year...familiarization range day@Leaf
Given my service provider is German (working in Afghanistan) and I religiously use a VPN...but yeah, there's some predators out there...
@2wheelwandar
Good eye! S&W 3913. I just happened across a good deal. It was in almost like-new condition. I already had about a dozen magazines, so it only made sense to pick up the 3913
ROCK6
2wheelwander
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Had a conversation with a friend yesterday. His wife was a social worker for years. Dealing with troubled kids, parents, etc. Refused to give her blessing to gun ownership.
Well, she gets burned out and gets a job at the local PD (250,000 population city) answering the non 911 calls. Now, she is demanding he gets a handgun and keep it in the house and get a carry permit.
Its all perspective vs. reality
Well, she gets burned out and gets a job at the local PD (250,000 population city) answering the non 911 calls. Now, she is demanding he gets a handgun and keep it in the house and get a carry permit.
Its all perspective vs. reality
Longhorn1986
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My wife actually encouraged me to get back into shooting when I returned home to Texas after almost a decade exiled to a northern state. Now, if I bring how a new firearm, she asks "Where's mine?" Hell, we exchanged shotguns for Christmas. I bought her a Benelli Montefeltro in 20ga and she bought me a Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon in 12.
armednfree
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My wife, way back when I met her, said she didn't like guns. I told her straight out that it was a package deal.
Some times guns aren't in the equation early in a relationship/marriage. That was the case for me. I had a shotgun and a a couple heirloom rifles in the beginning that I didn't have out very much, so guns weren't ever really talked about. Fast forward 13 years and I came into possession of a sweet M1 Garand. Then I became interested in handguns, and then, and then, and then....
Without reading all five pages of responses I would simply make a demonstrative statement to the wife “ I had firearms before you and will have firearms when St Peter comes calling for me.” You can include or omit adding the wife in there with a suggestion you will have the guns perhaps longer than you will have her. This is grand advise from my normal marriage counseling program, you can then actively seek a place to sleep after your house, bank account, vehicles and retirement quickly become the property of your wife at the sound of the judges gavel.
My wife doesn’t like me buying handguns either, simple solution is that I don’t tell her!
For a lot of years my CU account was in my name only, that was my gun fund and should would never see the gun shop charges.
If she saw something that she thought was new I’d just tell had this for years and it was buried in the safe.
For the most part my collecting days are over and since I’m retired the CU account is in both names now. If I do buy anything now I just listen to the P&M session!
For a lot of years my CU account was in my name only, that was my gun fund and should would never see the gun shop charges.
If she saw something that she thought was new I’d just tell had this for years and it was buried in the safe.
For the most part my collecting days are over and since I’m retired the CU account is in both names now. If I do buy anything now I just listen to the P&M session!
2wheelwander
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Dad used to have $50 savings bonds taken from his checks (gub'ment employee) and that was his gun fund. For decades Mom never knew how he afforded his guns when a new one showed up. She never looked at his pay stubs.
It was a slow system, but it worked.
It was a slow system, but it worked.
These statements sometimes crack me up..just cuz 'she doesn't like guns'(my wife doesn't either), doesn't mean she doesn't like you..geeez, marriage is give and take, never easy.
I guess some are faced with 'pick guns or me'..but I think that's rare..IMHO, of course.