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If You Have More Than 10 Guns, Does That Make You a Gun Nut?
The Atlantic ^ | October 3, 2015 | James Fallows and others

Posted on 10/04/2015 2:05:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If 10 makes you a nut, I guess I’m a freaking lunatic.


21 posted on 10/04/2015 2:26:26 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. Idiots.


22 posted on 10/04/2015 2:27:30 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Boonie

“there were only muzzle loaders and THAT is all we can legally have”

Then freedom of the press only applies to 18th century printing technology.


23 posted on 10/04/2015 2:27:34 PM PDT by all the best
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Handguns are easier to collect & store than motorcycles.

Jay Leno owns more than 100 classic automobiles but he has his very own underground parking garage to keep them in.

Anyway, what do you call someone who owns over 100 firearms?

Beginner!


24 posted on 10/04/2015 2:27:41 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is wrong with being a “gun nut?” I used to aspire to that status!


25 posted on 10/04/2015 2:29:39 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Hmm....they may have a point...

...oh that only applies to Christians not Muslims? Gotcha....

26 posted on 10/04/2015 2:30:09 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Army must have changed. I was drafted in 1969. At the physical they asked me if I could hear the ligtning and see the thunder. I said what? They said “yer good to go.”


27 posted on 10/04/2015 2:35:51 PM PDT by umgud
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I currently own around 15 powder burners and maybe 20 airguns.

I consider myself nearly disarmed and could use a lot more but right now can’t afford them.


28 posted on 10/04/2015 2:36:11 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you have more than 10 books, does that make you a book nut?


29 posted on 10/04/2015 2:42:48 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Hugin

If asked what my favorite gun is, I would have to say it’s the one that I happen to be shooting that day. They are all different and because of that each one has its own pleasure in shooting.


30 posted on 10/04/2015 2:44:13 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Boonie
Tell him that by his "logic" then the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to digital or electronic communications since none of them existed at that time.

Or, take another tack. At the time the 2nd Amendment was written, it was protecting (note, protecting not granting) our right to own exactly the same weapons as our military had at that point. So it could be construed as to protect our right to be armed equally as the military...

31 posted on 10/04/2015 2:46:07 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yesterday I quoted a reader who said, on the contrary, ten or more guns could be a perfectly reasonable collection for perfectly non-threatening citizens to have.

Before the boat accident, I used to have more than ten guns, but now I only have a water gun, a nerf gun and the big stuff... a Red Rider BB gun.

32 posted on 10/04/2015 2:46:57 PM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OMG! I went to check how many guns I have and for the first time in my life realized I was a “GUN NUT!”

I have 2 12ga shotguns, 1 410 shotgun, 1 410 “snake charmer”, 7 various .22 pistols ranging from seimi-automatic to revolvers, a .22 Henry rifle, 1 .22 magnum Henry rifle, 1 “big boy” 7mm mag rifle and others.

I will try to get rid of them so that my number of firearms goes below 10 so I won’t be called a “gun nut.”

Whew! I’m glad I found this article!


33 posted on 10/04/2015 2:48:11 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
I have over 13 guns and all of them have killed fewer people than Ted Kennedys Oldsmobile.

I started to agree with you, but then I realized that I can't say that for certain, as I own three Mosin-Nagants, and an 1868 Swiss Vetterli. I can say that that is true while they've been in my possession...

34 posted on 10/04/2015 2:49:12 PM PDT by TexasBarak (I aim to misbehave!)
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To: Boonie

If that’s true then freedom of the press only applies too hand-operated, sheet fed, vertical letterpress printers.


35 posted on 10/04/2015 2:49:21 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every time my wife asks me how many more I want always say “Just one more”.


36 posted on 10/04/2015 2:51:01 PM PDT by Duckdog (Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.)
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To: Boonie

He says when the 2nd Amendment was written, there were only muzzle loaders and THAT is all we can legally have...

So his opinion doesn’t count, because when the 1st Amendment was written there were only type-presses.


37 posted on 10/04/2015 2:53:22 PM PDT by El.Cid803
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To: TexasBarak

You got me there, too. I do have guns that have a history. I should have qualified that with “while in my possession”.

One is an 1895 Mosin, captured by the Finns in the Winter War and redone into a Model 39 in 1968. It still bears the mark of the Czar.


38 posted on 10/04/2015 2:55:05 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some people collect Barbie Dolls. What does that make them?


39 posted on 10/04/2015 3:00:37 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
10 guns? Actually I have 10 guns. I don't consider myself a "gun nut." I'm a 2nd Amendment supporter and firearms enthusiast but... Actually several are not even in "active rotation" or use, being family heirlooms. In fact one, my Uncle's service pistol, I've never fired. I clean it and maintain it, but have no plans to ever fire it. It will eventually go to my son who, like my Uncle, is also serving in the Air Force.

What is a "gun nut" anyway? To me it implies some measure of irrationality. But what is irrational? Collecting firearms? Hey, lots of people collect lots of odd stuff. A guy at work collects Pez dispensers. Is it irrational to have multiple firearms? I don't think so. There are many different styles, features, manufacturers... Even having several of one style seems reasonable. Consider the AR. There are so many variations you could easily have a dozen and no two configured the same.

40 posted on 10/04/2015 3:01:00 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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