You Might Be a Gun Nut If...

Keep and Bear Arms ^ | Randy Lyman

[SJackson]

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[SJackson]

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[newgeezer]

...you went to the gun show intending to buy a 4" .357 revolver, but came home with a 2" and a 6", and called it a "compromise." (I did.)

[6ppc]

...you cannot recall how many firearms you own.
...you own reloading dies for calibers that you do not shoot.
...you ever bought two brands of the same weight and type of bullet, just to see if one "shot better." (Not as silly as it sounds!)
...you have your own BATF agent (mounted any suitable way).
...you have more gunpowder stashed in your home than your local sporting goods store has on hand.

I resemble quite a few more of these remarks, but these are the closest!

[eureka!]

LOL

[TheRealLobo]

...you cannot recall how many firearms you own.

True

...you buy a gun that's just like that other gun you have except the barrel is 1/2" shorter (or longer).

Guilty, and the wife bought the story. (She shoots too)

...you buy a gun at a shop only to find out you used to own it a couple of years ago.

Happened with a Glock .40 that I used to own. Ended up losing a net $60 on it.

...you ever bought ammo in a caliber for which you have no gun, because you thought some day you MIGHT get a gun in that caliber.

Nothing wrong with this. ("But honey, look at the PRICE")My friends give me a hard time about it tho'. :)

[scooter2]

you keep a loaded gun hidden in every room in the house, including the bathroom and kitchen, "just in case," and then keep one on you at all times just in case someone breaks in while you're in the hallway.

What's so unusual about this?

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

....If you are a 20 year old college student, and at 2 in the morning, a drug-crazed psycho turns your front door into toothpicks, and chases you around the kitchen table with a 10 inch blade for 10 minutes. Then you go to the arraignment, and find out that the perp has 3 previos assults with a deadly weapon on his rap sheet.

[freedomvent.net]

I know a guy who named his son Gage. I think he qualifies.

FreedomVent

[FreedomFarmer]

...you identify the gun on the cover of Dillons Blue Press before you even notice the girl.

I just checked, by gawd, there is a girl on it.

[M Kehoe]

Sheesh! I've been 'outted'!

5.56mm

[Hoosier]

...you are the only one at the gun show with a shopping cart. ...you are shopping for your fifth gunsafe. ...you lose sleep thinking that you might not have the latest 1911A1 variant to ensure your collection is complete. ...you have been named Colt Customer of the Year...5 years straight.

[patton]

....kids are named Degtreyev and Kalashnikov.

[Space Wrangler]

you cannot recall how many firearms you own.

Guilty!

you ever clean a gun that hasn't been shot in the week since you cleaned it last.

Guilty!

you buy high capacity magazines for a gun you have not bought yet.

Sadly, yes, I have done this. (Space W. shrinks away with head bowed!)

your mother-in-law asks what new gun junk you want for Christmas this year.

Every year, and then I have to point it out in the catalog, and circle it and make CERTAIN she gets the right thing!

you consider it unpatriotic not to own at least one .45 and one .22.

Now this one's just right on. Everybody believes this one, right??

you have guns in your safe that you can't, for the life of you, remember how you came by.

Got about six like this, but she thinks the number is 9, since I have bought a few new ones since we've been married, and pulled the 'ol "No, honey, can't remember where I got that one, but I've had it a while". That's a little technique I picked up from an old Pat McManus story in the back of Outdoor Life magazine. Should work for as long as I have space in the safe! Those things start re-producing if you don't keep your eye on 'em!!

[aomagrat]

...your attic is filled with the cardboard boxes your guns came in.

(mine is)

[Sender]

...you feel the need to use up some of your ammo because it might be getting old...and then you order a thousand more to replace it.

[300winmag]

Sheesh! I've been 'outted'!

About two-thirds of that list applies to me. I'm still working on the rest.

[Shooter 2.5]

You actually hate deer season because of all of the "amateurs" who show up at the gun range.

The garbage can in your room is an old powder keg.

You have as much enthusiasm in shooting a $30 chinese pellet rifle as a $800 Anschutz.

[PatrioticAmerican]

...if you immediately clicked on this thread.

[PatrioticAmerican]

..if you were hoping that this thread might give you some pointers.