Posted on 07/07/2009 11:59:24 AM PDT by mudblood
If you're like me, you've been married for a few years and have all but resigned yourself to emasculation. You can't go hang-gliding, bungee jumping, white-water rafting, sky-diving or any of the cool things you thought you'd get to do when you "grew up". But there is one manly, super cool thing you JUST might get to do if you play your cards right, and that is: purchase a handgun.
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Heh. My wife came with guns. She did sell my .357 which pissed me off.
I had more weapons than he did.
[scary more]....LOL
Lol she sold your gun ?! That’s insanity :) How/why did she sell it?
I recently got into guns myself. They really are a lot of fun. I have:
- sig sauer 225p6, 9mm
- sig sauer 250 in .40
- AR15 by Olympic Arms (.556)
I’m hoping to get a mossburt 590 in a few months.
“If you’re like me, you’ve been married for a few years and have all but resigned yourself to emasculation.”
No. I’m not like you. I kept riding motorcycles, shooting, hunting etc. I’d never marry any woman who would object to me doing those things. I taught my wife to ride and shoot. Now she plans our yearly motorcycle tours and tells me to make sure our daughter knows how to use a gun.
I bought it from a man who helped raise her. When he died, she sold it back to his son so he would have one of his daddy’s guns.
Still....
Ahh ok understood. I thought it was a “You don’t need that old thing anyway” kind of story.
Here’s a better way to broach the subject. Grow a set of cajones and tell your better half that you are getting not just one firearm, but many and joining a sportsman club. My wife is not a huge fan of firearms, but when she met me I was in the Marine Corps, owned firearms and played all day long with firearms. Not much she could say about it. I only wish she would go out shooting with me. Any suggestions on how to get that done would be appreciated.
Written by a wussy-ass babyface liberal, no doubt?
Mrs. Freedomlover had her concealed carry before I did.
Alternate version:
1. Sell/trade your way up. She’ll complain about it, but “well, I sold X Y and Z to get it, so it didn’t cost us anything” ends that argument pretty quick.
2. Facts, appropriate for age/situation. “Here, read this: ‘the majority of kidnapped children are dead within 4 hours, with most of the rest dead within 24 hours.’” Make it clear, without you actually having to say anything, that YOU, suitably equipped, are the only one preventing that scenario. Cops exist only to write reports about the subsequent mess.
3. Give her something to brag about you. “People email my husband out of the blue asking him to be an expert witness.” (or whatever is suitable.) Be good enough that you ARE impressive one way or another. Don’t meddle, don’t fiddle, EXCEL.
4. Get others to tell her the lowdown on the subject. “Oh, yes, you really should get a carry permit, my husband got me a Glock 19 and I’m so thankful he did. There’s one in the kitchen behind the coffee too.”
5. Get a bonus. Somehow, earn enough off the budget in a way that makes it CLEARLY “yours” to play with. And make sure SHE gets something pricy too. “Sure, honey, you can buy that Steyr .50BMG - but you have to pick it up at the factory in person, and that means taking ME to Austria.”
6. Just do it.
We’re having a rough time financially, but my wife won’t let me sell my guns.
On my first date with my wife, we went to a very nice restaurant, and when we got ready to pay out, she insisted that I allow her to cover the tip,,,,I objected, but she insisted, so I said OK if that makes you feel better, she said it does, and she opened her purse to get some cash and exposed a large frame .357 Model 19 Smith. I was staring at that, and she smiled, and I said, “You will do. Pay the tip.”
I sure as the world would not be in any relationship where I was allowed or not allowed to do anything. I cant believe that men subject themselves to that. Likewise, I cant believe that women would either. That isnt what the relationship is about. I fly, I skydive, river raft, I shoot, I build guns—sometimes in the house, I reload, and I kill things, if anyone has a problem with that, then they need to take it up elsewhere.
Remind her of how many times you've gone shopping with her.
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What is the P6 designation of the 225? I have one...nice little pistol but I’ve never heard of the p6 part.
Convince her?
She demanded that we have guns!
If it wasn’t for my wife, I would probably be in prison. So I listen to her advice. I don’t need very much.
my hub was a lib and wasn’t into firearms when i met him...i told him that if it was going to work out between us, he had to like guns...took him to the range the following week and he turned out to be a freaking marksman...now he listens to rush and just spent most of our savings on guns and ammo... haha.
ditto.
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