NobodyJones
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The first major gift I ever bought my wife was a pistol. She has bought me a rifle and herself another pistol.
She is very pro gun!
She is very pro gun!
Just curious about those of you whom have a lot of guns and spend stupid amounds of money on firearms , how does your spouse handle the situation ?
I met one guy who's wife was anti-gun. She made him put his guns in the tool shed and even though he wrapped them up..they were rusted.
So hard to imagine that my late father-in-law as a 1st LT with the Quartermasters, taking some of Goering's handguns from his home in Bavaria Germany (Obersalzburg).
One might imagine that such a guy would have become a true gun person, but at least he was never anti-gun.
My wife never knew, 27 years ago when we married, that there was a * dormant gun interest which later was to suddenly blossom (in 2007).
** A grandfather of mine >> committed suicide with a handgun <<, and my Mom never exhibited any strong emotions towards guns. He had some medical condition.
She calmly said "I don't like guns" (note the word "calmly"), as she is intelligent to realize that other methods (suicide) are available.
When we have extra money my wife doesn't want new clothes or new shoes etc. She drags me kicking and screaming to the gun store.
Marry a country girl... they grow up knowing that a gun is another tool in the shed and are needed to control unwanted visitors... Every time I am debating adding another gun she is usually the one that pushes the decision. We are now both very senior citizens but all descendants and spouses are into guns, some more than others At least two of the women have used guns in a defensive manner...
If you can't find a country girl, look for a Texas gal...
Our great granddaughter, now four years old, had her first "range day" with her brand new pink Red Ryder about a week ago... I gave her the gun with the blessings of ALL of her family members. We start them young in Texas...
BTW she is a tenth generation Texan but has a little foreign blood mixed in, mostly Viking...
I'm from Mississippi, my wife is from Indiana. She's been around guns because her ex used to buy them but she never got to shoot any of them. We've only been married a couple of years and where we live now there's not many places to shoot so it was awhile before we got to. Once we did she wanted a gun of her own. Long story short she started getting unexpected monthly installments on her disability back pay. She now has six handguns of her own plus an AR.She’s originally from Washington but she’s a keeper though. And besides that, before I found her, I tried my hand at a few Oklahoma country girls and one or two of them started out as a Texas girl and it just didn’t work out between me and them… LOL.
I don’t know if it works out between me and the one I’ve got now because even though I’m from Texas myself, I’m probably more compatible with a girl that’s not a country girl but at least I can say, her dad was from Alabama and he was into guns/deer hunting and when her parents decided to buy a pretty big cattle ranch down here in Oklahoma and when her and her husband at the time decided to move down here to help work that ranch, she was still into the target shooting and stuff like that with a little 22 semi auto, going out to the ponds and plucking turtles off of logs but all in all, she just really is still where I was where over five years ago when even though I wasn’t anti-gun but I just never had a reason to own a handgun until I bought my first one about 4 and a half years ago. I had, and still have a 22 rifle that my fire chief from way back in my fire fighter days was pretty much it other than a BB gun so when my mom started to really go get into guns, if I would’ve been into handguns as much as she was a long time ago, I could’ve acquired a really nice full-size Springfield XD 45 for free because she bought this pistol at a garage sale that came with a case, paddle holster, three magazines and a holster for teo of the magazines for like 400 bucks and when she realized that handgun was way too much for her, she tried giving it to me but not so much because I wasn’t into handguns at the time, I just primarily thought she would’ve been better off to just sell that pistol and then use the money to go buy something that was a lot more manageable to her but like I said, at that time, I just wasn’t into handguns so my girlfriend is just kind of in the same boat I was in years ago. She figures she’s lived 44 years of her life never feeling like she has to carry a gun or even own a gun so maybe someday that’ll change… LOL if it doesn’t, oh well....lol.
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So she's a proponent of tractor and harvester control, then?RickB said:I describe her perspective as "big town midwest", even though she grew up in a rural area where deer hunting is like a religion; guns are dangerous, you can't trust people to be safe around dangerous things, so someone has to control how much danger armed, unsafe people can be to the people around them.