Recently I have posted a few times about weapons - to which i have gotten mixed reviews - let me clarify my position - whether you give a crap or not - it will make me feel better to explain myself:

48yrs old white male, married, 3 kids all out of the house, safety professional by trade, home owner, drive a 99 ford crown vic and ride my 96 savage every chance i get,l race radio controlled cars for my hobby...oh yeah and collect guns:

why guns? - I was on a plane about 3 years ago setting beside the new CEO of Remington Arms - he was on his way to the Corp HQ in Madison NC - I was on my way home from doing a safety inspection of one of our facilities.

During the plane ride we struck up a conversation during which he showed me the new Remington Arms catalogue which had a $27,000 collector gun in it - I asked do people really spend that kind of money on a gun that will most likely never be fired - he said yes and continued on to say that statistics show that there are 3.8 guns per person in America...I told him I am not part of that statistic since I did not own a single gun at that time, never had owned a gun as a matter of fact - other than I bought a 12 guage pump shotgun when i first got married to wife 2 and she made me sell it the next day since she did not want any guns in the house with the children then 3, 5, & 13. (1992)

So move ahead to 2008 September - economy sucking wind, election coming, potential for things to get much worse before they get any better, with the economy, illegals, politics, jobs, etc.....things that make people do crazy things like decide they have to TAKE what they want/need from others (home invasions etc.)......The wife says to me "you know with the way things are going and if this elections does not go well things are probably going to get worse, I think it is time got a gun to protect our home."... I thought......well our anniversary was coming up in October so I got her a .32 revolver, we went to the shooting range and what do you know I find out I am married to Wyatt Freakin Earp....not worried about her hitting the target.....well I decided I needed a "man gun" got an Italian 9MM target pistol - home defense and new hobby target shooting, not so much the Wyatt Earp type more of a "Do you feel lucky Punk" type......

ok re-cap 0 guns (in 45 years) to 2 in less than 2 weeks in October 2008......now at 9 including 30.06, .22 rifle x 2, 20 gauge (turkey shoot gun), .32 revolver x 2 both hers, 9MM, Yugoslavian SKS, and 12 gauge pistol grip pump shotgun (home defense on steroids)....now I am firmly in the statistic of gun owner-ship.....

Why tell - now you know where I came from and where I stand going forward - before I could not defend myself, wife, home, animals, way of life in general, etc...

Now if someone threatens my way of life - I am fully prepared to defend it.

some felt if the Democrats got in they would start the process of making it harder if not impossible to get a gun.

I have freinds in Massachusetts who cant get over the fact that i was able to go from 0 guns to 9 guns in less than 2 years - they cant get a gun legally up there according to them - only criminals have guns up there in MA according to my friends who live there.

Weracerc, most people who own guns (myself included) don't brag about them and express fantasies about boogie-men entering their homes and how great it would be to kill them.
The crap you are posting about the big black democrat gonna' grab your guns, and fearless children killing bad guys is sheer nonsense.

Don't worry about our southern red necks Star ,I think they all sit around drinking beer and dream of ways to kill Obama,they talk tough but no action.

interesting Ed - me too - Quaker that is.

I enjoy target shooting, and feel I'm prepared for self defense, but don't obsess over it. Ammo prices did go up since Obama became pres, but It may just be coincidence.

My girlfriend didn't own any firearms up until earlier this year. I used to go to the range alone, or she'd come along and just watch me. One day I asked her if she'd like to put a few rounds through my Ruger P95 (9mm) and she accepted. Soon after she took to shooting my .45, then applied for her FID card and handgun purchase permits, just to "maybe get a .22 pistol." When she got her permits we went shopping for her .22. The salesman showed her a couple of guns and said "so, do you see anything you like?" She said "I like Joe's .45" She wound up buying a .22 pistol, and started shopping for 9mm's. A caliber that has a nice kick to it, and isn't that expensive to shoot. She took about a month shooting 9mm's and doing research. One day I'm shooting my S&W .38 Revolver and asked her if she'd like to put a few rounds through it, and the love affair was born. Long story short, she wound up buying a S&W Model 19 .357 Combat Magnum Revolver. My kind of woman

I really don't have anything against gun ownership, but I myself prefer archery. I own a couple of re-curve bows and a crossbow pistol. You don't have to worry about waking the neighbors when you have to fire it against an intruder.   and you can re-use the ammo without having special equipment to repack ammunition brass.

Serowbot wrote on 10/25/10 at 18:31:19:


Quite true and I have just created this new one as well.