Perspective

[fightingquaker13]

Mine is smaller than it was. I'm about 10 guns lighter. BUT, now what I have is what I want/need (for generous values of need ), without me having had to spend money. There are just a couple of guns I think might fit into the (need) niche. After that, its just toy shopping. And and I like toys.
FQ13

[alfsauve]

I'm fortunate in the wife doesn't think we have nearly enough for WTSHTF, but my sons and friends all think in terms of one handgun, one shotgun and one rifle.   I tell them I only have one.....of each caliber....okay I do have several .22lr and three .223s, but for the most part I have just one gun.

What bugs me is the way some people, the media especially throw around the word "arsenal".   It seems anytime someone has more than one gun they call it an arsenal.     I think of an arsenal as containing many of the same gun.  You know,  100 M4s,  or a 100 PT92s, or a 100 Rem 870s.   Bunches of the same gun used to outfit many people.  What I have is a "collection".   Only one person to be outfitted, but many different guns for many different uses.   With a few exceptions none are the same caliber and those that are are distinctly different.   (e.g., a national match A2 vs a varmint A4 w/scope)   Each gun has a distinctly different purpose.   A collection....not an arsenal.

I still need a .243Win, a .260Rem, a 7mm-08, a .308, and oh what was that other thing a 7.62x54R?  yeah one of them.  Plus I never had a .41Mag or a .44Mag, much less a .38Super.   And I hear the FN5.7 is a fun plinker.

One gun is all I have.    My perspective.

[tombogan03884]

Technically they are correct

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arsenal


1 a : an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment b : a collection of weapons

It would be more accurate to use the term "Collection", or "Battery", since each has a specific purpose, but refering to your arsenal, (However humble    ) is proper English.

[Walter45Auto]

I get that reaction sometimes. I love it. 

I also love when someone comes to me and says "I hear you're heavily into guns." or "I hear you like guns." It always puts a big smile on my face.

[Dakotaranger]

My Step-dad who is more of a hunter than a shooter thinks I'm nuts for having a semi-auto 'coyote rifle',  was spooked that the sight of  my Bowie, and thinks my SOG Fusion folder is a big knife...It maybe a good thing he doesn't know about the auto-kinves

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[blackwolfe]

I don't have a collection.  I don't have an arsenal.  I have an addiction.  Firearms are my Mistress.

[TAB]

Doesn't really count TAB, You live in a relatively prosperous area.
Heck, Even you are married to a Doctor  

who is still a half a mil in debt with school loans, her bring home pay is just a hair over 3k, from almost 15k gross.


You know its funny, all the guys I know with big gun/car/boat/ what ever collections, all busted thier ass for decades to get where they are now.  

[DonWorsham]

I have more guns than I can shake a stick at (but my stick is very small).

[Hazcat]

I'm fortunate in the wife doesn't think we have nearly enough for WTSHTF, but my sons and friends all think in terms of one handgun, one shotgun and one rifle.   I tell them I only have one.....of each caliber....okay I do have several .22lr and three .223s, but for the most part I have just one gun.

What bugs me is the way some people, the media especially throw around the word "arsenal".   It seems anytime someone has more than one gun they call it an arsenal.     I think of an arsenal as containing many of the same gun.  You know,  100 M4s,  or a 100 PT92s, or a 100 Rem 870s.   Bunches of the same gun used to outfit many people.  What I have is a "collection".   Only one person to be outfitted, but many different guns for many different uses.   With a few exceptions none are the same caliber and those that are are distinctly different.   (e.g., a national match A2 vs a varmint A4 w/scope)   Each gun has a distinctly different purpose.   A collection....not an arsenal.

I still need a .243Win, a .260Rem, a 7mm-08, a .308, and oh what was that other thing a 7.62x54R?  yeah one of them.  Plus I never had a .41Mag or a .44Mag, much less a .38Super.   And I hear the FN5.7 is a fun plinker.

One gun is all I have.    My perspective.

GET THE MOSIN!! 

[tombogan03884]

who is still a half a mil in debt with school loans, her bring home pay is just a hair over 3k, from almost 15k gross.


You know its funny, all the guys I know with big gun/car/boat/ what ever collections, all busted thier ass for decades to get where they are now. 

No doubt, but never leave out luck and timing,you busted your butt to and where's your business ?
Truth is, I'm probably in the hundred plus group, just not all at once