How many guns do you own?

[Swede]

I have a Browning .22,a Lee Enfield .303,and a Remington .308. I used to use them when I was living in the country,but now that I live in the city,they just gather dust.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. None

[TorchTheWitch]

2. none n/t

[bigwillq]

3. None (nt)

[realisticphish]

4. Quite a few, mostly black powder

my father builds muzzleloaders

[slackmaster]

5. More than 50

Mostly curio or relic bolt-action rifles.

[seabeyond]

6. none. hubby... too many to count. or i dont care how many so never counted. nt

[Botany]

7. 3 2 shotguns and .22 rifle

and I am using a friend .17 cal pellet gun on my woodchucks .... it hits like a .22.

[OhioChick]

8. 2 and looking for a 3rd

Springfield Tactical XD 40 and a SW9VE 9mm.

[Swede]

11. Oh,I forgot I have a shotgun,too. 12 gauge.

Man these things are really getting dusty. It's a semi automatic Remington. It's at my brother's in Calgary.

[pipoman]

85. Before you buy the SW9VE

take a look at SW 3913 or 3914....they are a truly great 9mm. I have carried both the 9ve and a 3914. The 3914 is the most accurate 9mm I have ever owned and it has a single stack magazine so it is thin and easy to carry...just my $.02

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Zero. And it will always be zero.

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[OregonBlue]

10. Who wants to know?

[Gman2]

12. Two rather large ones. And I have never had to use my S&W 9mm

because of them. Had spec ops demolitions expert out to assassinate me, a guy chase me on my MC with a hatchet, many people try to run me off the road, and four cops break into my home on three occasions, without a warrant, and still, no good reason to use it.

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. One.

[L0oniX]

14. 2 semi automatics ...S&W M&P9 ...Kel-Tec PF9

[biermeister]

15. 2 pistols, 2 rifles & a shotgun nt.

[spanone]

16. i have a bb gun.

[2Design]

17. none - as it should be n/t

[Tejas]

19. Why, are you prohibited?

Just curious, not asking for details.

[bigwillq]

20. Why

do you say that? :shrug:

[Swede]

26. I asked this not to start something

I am all for gun control of some kind. Hey,I'm Canaddian.

[Tim01]

71. So, how many guns does your constitution gurantee you?

[Swede]

75. I think a Canadian can own as many as they want.

You'd probably have to go through alot of bureaucracy first.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

70. If you don't feel you can handle gun ownership then it is indeed as it should be.

[Robb]

18. None, since I moved back to civiilzation.

Although apparently I'm to get grandpa's chrome-plated shotgun at some point. Maybe put it up on a couple of spikes over the door, if there's room.

Hopefully it's heavy enough to clobber an intruder over the head with, because I doubt it fires. :D

[SteveM]

102. You may have a "marine" shotgun which would work fine...

Some manufacturers made shotguns (usually pump action) from stainless steel or chrome-plate for marine duty (to resist salt spray rust). Your gun probably works fine, but if you decide to sell, you should get a good price. BTW, over the door is where George Orwell recommended the placement of firearms for civilian use.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

21. Seven. A Walther P22, a Walther P99, A Les Bear 1911.

Two Mosin Nagants, A Remington 870 tacticle and A 50 mm Pennsylvania long gun, flintlock. Circa 1770.

I want more!

[Pavulon]

27. Tends to be like Photography

buy a cheap camera, then you need a D body. Buy a d700, then you need lenses. Then you need a good mac for post work. Soon you have 10 grand worth of stuff.

[Euromutt]

118. That's a pretty decent analogy.

I own a variety of weapons, and by variety I mean that they come in a variety of calibers--though there is a plurality of .22LR--and actions. Almost each of my guns differs mechanically from the others; I have a couple of striker-fired handguns, two SA semi-auto handguns (a Ruger 22/45 and a 1911), a DA/SA 9mm with a rotating barrel locking mechanism, a pump-action shotgun, an AR (with a .22LR bolt carrier insert; not as accurate as a dedicated .22 upper, but way cheaper), a bolt-action .22 and a lever-action .22. The next gun I buy--and that might take a while at present--will probably be a revolver, because I don't have one yet. Though I also have a liking of historical military firearms, and I'd like to collect some of those. I did briefly have a Soviet (1933 Tula) M1895 Nagant revolver (a mechanical oddity in itself) but I bought and cleaned that one up as a gift for a friend of mine who's an Eastern European History major.

It's why I do a mental facepalm whenever somebody busts out with the "how many guns do you need?" challenge. I like guns as pieces of machinery, and historical artifacts. Every gun I own is unique in some way, in the context of my collection. The whole notion that a reason--let alone the only reason--to amass an "arsenal" is to shoot a bunch of people is just silly. In just about any situation in which shooting people is a likelihood, you shouldn't need more than two guns; one primary, and one backup in case your primary malfunctions. Carrying more than two is for amateurs, since any gun beyond two is taking up carrying capacity that you could be using for ammunition for your first two, or just leaving off so as not to weigh yourself down.

And if you look at recorded instances of spree shootings, you'll see that even when the shooters bring more than two guns, they rarely end up using the excess. For example, Buford Furrow, the white supremacist piece of shit who committed the North Valley Jewish Community Center shooting in L.A., brought a stack of semi-automatic weapons, but in the end he used only the Norinco Uzi knockoff in the Center, and a Glock 26 to later kill mail carrier Joseph Ileto. Charles Whitman took seven guns to the top of the University of Texas clock tower, but only used two of them. In practice, individuals can commit atrocities quite readily with two or even one gun; limiting the number of firearms any one person can own serves no purpose to curb these horrors. Conversely, people may own multiple firearms for various legitimate purposes. A varmint rifle is no good for hunting deer, and a deer rifle is no good for hunting birds or shooting skeet, and the shotguns that are, are no good for turkey, etc. etc. And that's even provisionally accepting the mistaken notion that the Second Amendment is about hunting or sport shooting.

The fact is that, very often, once you start owning guns, you look to acquire more. Not more of the same, but guns that are different from those you already own. Much like car collectors don't feel the urge to own several examples of the same model of car, but want different cars so they can see how they compare against each other, possibly for different people. If I were obsessed with preparing against The End Of The World As We Know It, like so many right-wing survivalist types, I wouldn't be spending good money on more guns; I'd get the guns I considered best suited--perhaps multiple copies--and spend the rest of my money on ammunition and reloading supplies for those particular guns. Owning many guns doesn't make you better at killing, or more likely to engage in it, any more than collecting postage stamps makes you better at sending letters, or more likely to write and mail them. It probably just means you're a collector.

[safeinOhio]

28. We might be related

2 pp22s 1ppk, and a 870, too, and a couple of others.

[PavePusher]

90. 50mm?!?!

Wow. Do you need your shoulder joint reset every time you fire that?:wow:

I'm gussing you mean .50 calibre? :-)

Or is it a punt gun?

[Statistical]

101. or for hunting tanks (only in season and with a permit though)

[Speck Tater]

22. None at the moment. Various pistols and rifles in the past. nt

[Historic NY]

23. Not enough according to some.

[undeterred]

I don't even have a glue gun.

[Tejas]

25. I have 3 of those, no idea where I hid them.

[PavePusher]

91. Careful!

Some thief could steal one and then you'd be in a sticky situation...

Sigh... I kill 'em on open mike nights...:rofl:

[Pavulon]

24. 6 or so

bench rest rifle, deer rifle, reloading stuff for that, shotguns, couple sig handguns and a j frame. They come and go.

Owned them for many years and they have yet to go off on their own or turn me into a criminal..

This one is fun. Really accurate, mechanically well made. As accurate as any handgun I have fired.

[S_B_Jackson]

76. Nice looking Gen II. Used to have a Gen I...

but sold it to fund a project gun.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

29. A bunch, but nothing new in 10 years or so.

[reflection]

30. None. I don't have anything against them,

I just don't trust them in my hands. I assume that if someone breaks into my home, I will either be 1) at work or 2) asleep. In the first instance a gun isn't going to help me and in the second, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I shot my wife or children in a sleepy confused state of mind.

[Swede]

34. I didn't ask for that reason.

I'm a Canadian,nobody has guns anymore. I just asked,cause I was going through my closet.

[reflection]

47. You asked how many, I told you.

Deal.

[reflection]

50. Sorry about that. I might have read too much into your response.

My bad.

[Swede]

54. No problem.

Nobody I know owns a gun here in town. It is like a relic from the past now. That invisible 49th parallel is something?

[BigBluenoser]

112. What town do you live in?

I can't think of a single household back where I'm from in Canada that does not have a deer caliber rifle (30-30, 30-06, .303, .308etc) and a 12 guage. City folk don't tend to own, but outside the cities people certainly have firearms.

[iverglas]

78. so, friend

Is there really some reason for wandering into this forum and spouting nonsense like:

I'm a Canadian,nobody has guns anymore.

Or are you playing the Rick Mercer? ;)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_to_Americans)

[Kali]

87. he didn't wander in, his thread got moved

I bookmarked it earlier when it was in GD

[iverglas]

92. to the wrong place, unfortunately

That kind of wasn't the point of my post anyway, was it, though?

[Kali]

94. I'm not sure what the point of your post was

I was just giving you some information I happened to have.:hi:

[iverglas]

95. well, then, maybe you would have done best to click on by

Sorry. The point of my post was that Swede was spouting nonsense, but I considered the possibility he was poking the resident gun militants with a sharp stick.

[boomerbust]

31. Wow Swede

I also own an Enfield 303, handed down to me by my Dad who bought it off a Brit for 10 bucks on his way back home from WW2. Also 2 shotguns.

[Arkansas Granny]

32. I don't own any guns. I have no problem with gun ownership, as long as the person

owning the gun is responsible with it, but I've never had the desire or felt the need to own one. The stories I read about children or toddlers finding a loaded and shooting another child just make my blood run cold. IMO, the person who didn't secure the weapon needs to have charges filed against them.

[proteus_lives]

33. A pistol and a shotgun.

[Hangingon]

35. Why would you list the guns you own on the internet?

[Pavulon]

37. Why not, I see more personal stuff here

than any other forum I visit. Not like my address is posted. Even so, the odds of some person seeing a post and deciding to rob me are pretty low.

[seabeyond]

48. cause they are comin to take em away? rollin eyes, lol.

teasing

[Hangingon]

80. Yes, I see all kinds of personal information posted here.

Just because some people do it, does not make it a smart or safe thing to do.

[Swede]

39. I'm just now realising what me posting thing question is doing.

I have guns,I grew up with them. I don't need them,they are like 8-tracks and record players to me.

[Vickers]

36. 4

9mm handgun
.25 handgun
.22 rifle
12 gauge shotgun

Plus a compound bow, a crossbow, and crossbow pistol, and a slingshot!

:P

[MajorChode]

38. Several

All of them I inherited or were given by family members.

I have a Browning High Power, a Remington 3200 Competition Skeet barrel set with .410, 28, 20, and 12 gauge over and under barrels, a 7mm Spanish Mauser modified with a Monte Carlo stock, a Remington 870 12 gauge, a 1911 .45 that was my grandfather's service pistol when he was a motorcycle cop back in the 30's, and at least one other shotgun that I don't even know the make or model.

I miss the old single shot .22 rifle I had as a kid. I have no idea what happened to it.

[ThoughtCriminal]

40. From the first episode of SNL (1975)

It was a parody of a 1960's cigarette commercial.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75aguns.phtml

[Uben]

41. Nineteen

Seventeen were inherited from my father and grandfather. I haven't shot any of them in 20 yrs, but I would never sell them. I just take em out every six months and oil them and place them back in the safe. I never keep any loaded, but I do have a speed loader for the S&W .357 magnum, if the occasion arises!

[City Lights]

42. None of your business. nt

[Edweird]

43. 5

a .22 rifle, Mini 30, a S&W 44 air weight, Kimber Ultra Carry and a Para Ordnance 14.45 (my favorite by a long shot).

[moondust]

44. No use for them.

Guns are the root of much evil. They embolden criminals, turn law-abiding citizens into murderers, and allow total nutjobs to rip holes in humanity with ease. I grew out of the "guns and flags" hypnotic spell in about 10th grade.

I also carried and fired various guns in the army including M-16s, Colt 45s, M60 machine guns, 50 cal machine guns, mortars, the LAW, etc.

There is no shortage of far better, more creative, non-lethal hobbies available.

[backwoodsbob]

45. up to 9 if you count my pellet gun

no handguns though I'm planning to get one before bear season

[ThomWV]

46. About as many as my neighbors, more than some, less than some

Here, in rural West Virginia, virtually every home has firearms. Also, this state has a concealed-cary licensing system that allows quite a few people to cary unseen firearms and of course unless a city ordinance prohibits it open cary is legal anywhere in the state.

[aikoaiko]

49. 10

FAL semi-auto clone
A couple of .357 revolvers
AR 15 and couple of lowers
A couple of shotguns

and my grandfather's service revolver from when he was a Jersey City cop back in the 1930-50s.

[Mugu]

51. One of my favorites.

But, it's never been fired.

[quaker bill]

52. none

[graywarrior]

53. I own an arsenal

and one tank.

[TheWraith]

108. So that's why the commando raid to free the duck failed. nt

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

115. wrong spot. n/t

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[aikoaiko]

58. why?

[CountAllVotes]

61. every one knows what you have

or don't have. :dunce:

[Shagbark Hickory]

64. I have a metal lousiville slugger. Sure to leave a mark.

[aikoaiko]

68. why would it matter if some knew what an anonymous poster had.

I think your concern meter is a little sensitive.

If I thought like you then I wouldn't even shoot at public or private ranges with other people for fear they would see what I have and follow me home.

[SteveM]

103. Wow! How did you find out...

or not?

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[elocs]

56. None. Never have, never will. My guess is that this thread will be off to the Guns Forum

where it rightly belongs.

[RB TexLa]

57. 6

[X_Digger]

59. 20'ish

I'm always building a new one or refinishing an old one.

[liquid diamond]

60. 2

I have a Smith & Wesson .45 pistol and a .357 Ruger SP101 revolver. I go to the range to shoot every few months.

[Shagbark Hickory]

63. What would I need a gun for?

[Tim01]

69. Nothing. You don't need insurance either. nt

[Tejas]

73. Don't know, waste of $, just like smoke alarms

:sarcasm:

[quiller4]

65. 3 shotguns, 4 rifles, 6 contempory pistols and one non-functioning

antique pistol.

[cayanne]

66. 7

nt

[spin]

67. I wonder if the U.S. Census Bureau will ask this question on the census form..

we get to fill out next year?

[Hangingon]

82. Yeah. ACORN wants to know

[TheWraith]

109. I think he was joking. nt

[S_B_Jackson]

83. They can ask, but I can guarantee that I won't answer....

after answering the required data in the short form, I don't feel compelled to answer any other questions. And the worst they can do is fine me - assuming they can find a sympathetic judge.

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[Tim01]

72. I have a few. nt

[S_B_Jackson]

74. Just mine? A few....

Savage Model 99EG .300 Savage
Springfield M1 Garand .308

Winchester Model 12 Skeet-grade 12-gauge
Mossberg 500 12-gauge
Remington 870 20-gauge

Henry Golden Boy .22 rifle
Benjamin .177 caliber pellet rifle

Kimber Stainless TLE .45 caliber
Marvel .22LR conversion kit

CZ 75B (satin nickel) .40S&W
Kadet .22LR conversion

Sig Sauer P245 .45 caliber
Sig Sauer P229 .40 S&W (.357 Sig)
Sig Sauer P228 9mm
Sig Sauer P225 9mm
Sig Sauer P6 9mm
SigPro 2022 .357 Sig (.40 S&W/ 9mm)
CZ 83 .380acp
CZ 82 9mm Makarov

Will take delivery in the next 3 weeks:
Sig Sauer P220 Stainless Elite GGI 10mm :D

Next on deck:
Sig Sauer P250 .40 S&W (will send to Customized Creations for a CC Anti-Snag modification)

[Tim01]

79. A 10 mill sig?

Is that factory, or did you have it built for you? I used to hunt with a 10mm.

[S_B_Jackson]

81. Yes, a 10 mil Sig. It's a custom modification....

you can read about it here http://sigforum.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/430601935/m/324107199

I'm in the first group of 17 guinea pigs...It's taken longer than any of us wished it would, but I consoled myself with the thought that if I'd ordered a custom 1911 from Charles Daly, I'd still be waiting too. :)

[Tim01]

96. That's pretty awsome.

I don't see any need for any SD round other than the 10mm. Problem of course is that someone would paint you as a bad ass looking for a fight if you had to actually shoot somebody.That's one reason mine stays home now.

I'm guessing yours is not for daily carry though.;)

[S_B_Jackson]

98. :) Yeah, I think so too....

IMO a stainless, full-size P220 isn't well-suited to concealed carry, it's just too big and too heavy. I'll stick with the P245 as an EDC....
This guy will mostly be a range/safe queen, though if hunting in rough country it might make a suitable bear gun.

The guys that own my range have been drooling about this project and I've promised if they buy the ammo, they get a chance to shoot it. I expect we're going to blow the hell out of some melons....:D As a SD round, I think the 10mm it too prone to over-penetration, and will carry too far in the event of a miss, to make it useful...one of the reasons the FBI wanted it was to shoot through car doors/windshields...the main reason they shied away from it was that it was causing many of their less dedicated shooters to develop some bad issue with anticipating recoil. They're a lot of fun to shoot, but they can be a bit brutal.

[S_B_Jackson]

105. I intended to respond in full...

"Problem of course is that someone would paint you as a bad ass looking for a fight if you had to actually shoot somebody."

Not something I'm terribly concerned with. Texas passed a civil immunity statute....IF I did have to shoot someone, then assuming I was found not criminally culpable, then I would be immune from civil action.

[benEzra]

117. Well, the FBI chose it as a defensive round...

and the "10mm lite" loads duplicate the most common .40 S&W loads, so you'd have to have an idiot prosecutor and a gullible judge and jury for that to even have a chance of flying, though even then I doubt it would bear on the question of justifiability. Of course, there are places where such a confluence could exist, and I know of at least one case in which a prosecutor tried to make an issue of it.

[iverglas]

77. for your future ref

typo fixed


Thread pinned at the top of this forum says:

Since we re-organized our forums, DU now has two forums for discussions relating to Guns and 2nd Amendment issues. Each of those forums has a specific purpose. Help us keep posts on-topic in each of those forums.

Discussion of gun-related public policy issues or the use of firearms for self-defense belong in the Guns Forum.

Personal-interest discussion about guns and weaponry should be posted in the Outdoor Life Group. By "personal interest" I mean, any discussion that is unrelated to public policy, such as: Posting pictures of guns or discussing the leisure activities of hunting or shooting.

"How many guns do you own?" does not appear to raise a public policy issue.

[oneshooter]

84. My collection is modest

Around 200 total pieces, ranging from original Brown Bess and Charleville muskets to French, American, English, German, and Japanese battle rifles. I also collect military pistols and shotguns. Been doing this for over 40years and still find models I need to add to complete my collection!

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas

[imdjh]

86. I have a helluva slingshot. Does that count?

[Kali]

88. me personally - 2

.22 and .38 both revolvers

there are some others around the place

[AtheistCrusader]

89. Two.... safes full.

[Botany]

93. now what have we learned from this thread?

answer ..... don't screw with DU.

[SteveM]

104. A poll run 2-3 yrs ago indicated most DUers owned at least 1 gun (nt)

[iverglas]

130. and then there's the truth

A poll was once put on this site asking people to indicate whether they owned firearms.

A tiny fraction of the members of this website (we have no idea who they were, or whether they might have encountered some death by misadventure tombstone since that time, which the rate of such demises in this particular forum might suggest many did) responded to the poll, and a majority of them said "yes".


A poll run 2-3 yrs ago indicated most DUers owned at least 1 gun?

No. It did not.

[benEzra]

97. Six or eight, between my wife and I.

The two of mine that get the most use, by far:







My wife's:




BTW, Swede, most U.S. cities have indoor ranges where you could shoot the .22, and centerfire rifle ranges within a modest driving distance. I'm not sure what the situation is in Canada, but I'd think there'd still be ranges available.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

99. Let me count.

Springfield XD-40 Tactical 40 S & W, Browning Buckmark, Ruger 10/22, Ruger .357, AR-15, S & W .22 Revolver, 2 S & W .38 Revolver, .22 Pump passed down, 12 gauge Mossberg 500, 410 bolt action shotgun. That would make 11. I'm about to buy a few more.

David

[michreject]

100. Over 50

Most of them are handguns. About 15 long guns

[pipoman]

106. ...and others

[TheWraith]

107. Two. A 12ga shotgun and a .308 Enfield/Ishapore.

If you ever want to get rid of that Remington .308, let me know. :D

[SsevenN]

110. 10? 11?

I haven't been shooting since last summer...

[ManiacJoe]

111. 1 shotgun, 6 rifles, 7 handguns at my house.

More via inheritance are yet to be inventoried, still at my parents' house.

[BigBluenoser]

113. I own enough to be ready for a war...

Unfortunately that war is world war II.

I tend to buy milsurp guns from the interwar period to the early cold war. Not much into commercial firearms other than S&W revolvers and old .22s for target shooting.

[slackmaster]

114. In the event of a regional catastrophe I could arm numerous households with WWII-era rifles

And earlier. Mostly Mosin-Nagants and Mausers.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

116. I have 7... if we're counting silencers as "firearms" I have 10

Federal law classifies a silencer as a firearm. ???
Seems silly, but those are the rules.

[Xela]

119. 8

1 swede M38
1 swede sporter M96/38
1 Mosin Nagant, Finn M28/30
2 Russian Sks, Tula
2 1991 Colt's
1 Beretta 85

[krispos42]

120. Not enough

I'm ill-prepared for the Rise of the Zombies. :-(

[Endangered Specie]

121. Sadly, I lost all of mine in a tragic boating accident...

:(

[eallen]

122. Two pistols, one my father's 1911 from his WW II service

Just used for range shooting. We live in a safe neighborhood, so I keep the ammo and guns apart.

:hippie:

[Xenotime]

123. Zero.

I heard a transit authority official say "The only people who have them are cops and criminals."

[benEzra]

126. Given that there are ~80 million gun owners in the USA

representing nearly half of U.S. households, I think some math would suggest that your transit authority official is speaking out of his own prejudices. Where do you live, BTW?

The overwhelming majority of gun owners are neither LEO's nor criminals, just regular people.

[virginia mountainman]

127. LOL!! That is one stupid transit official....

How did he get that position?

[pipoman]

129. -snick-

Transit authority officials are known for their neurosurgeon like intelligence...there you have it...

[rl6214]

128. At last count, 57.

I collect arms from WW2 because I love the history behind them and have quite a few modern ones as well.

[TXRAT2]

131. I'm sure I have a couple laying around here some where.

[57_TomCat]

132. More than I need...

not as many as I want.

[TxRider]

133. 5

2 semi a .308 M1A and a semi version of an AK.

1 .40 Browning hi power pistol

1 winchester .45 LC lever action

1 12ga Ithaca featherlitw