Why Do you love Your Gun? - Page 2

markj · September 1, 2009, 04:32 PM

The only gun I love is a plastic blow up model.

Guns are tools to be used for a specific purpose, they cannot love you in return like say a puppy can.

Love your kids and family, use the gun to protect them if needed or provide them with food.

Loving a gun is like loving a favorite fence post.....

spacemanspiff · September 1, 2009, 04:34 PM

Wow, your triggers go off pretty easily, professor. I have to squeeze mine to get anything to happen. I hear its common in men my age.

Wildalaska · September 1, 2009, 04:50 PM

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loving a favorite fence post.....

hey so yer the one who was playin' with my first wife

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Evan Thomas · September 1, 2009, 04:56 PM

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Guns are tools to be used for a specific purpose, they cannot love you in return like say a puppy can.

Your puppy doesn't love you in return either. It's just that they're pack animals. Unlike guns... mine, at least.

NickySantoro · September 1, 2009, 04:57 PM

I don't "love" any inanimate object. I do "appreciate" their usefulness, depending upon the object.

B. Lahey · September 1, 2009, 06:48 PM

The only guns I love are the ones passed down through my family, and even then I can recognize that they are not perfect mechanical creations.

The rest of them I just like, or don't like. The ones I don't like anymore, I send to Wildalaska and he conjures up the voodoo spirits and turns them into piles of money.

Then I get more guns I like.

Folks can say my guns suck, that's ok. Sometimes they are right.

Wildalaska · September 1, 2009, 07:18 PM

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Folks can say my guns suck, that's ok. Sometimes they are right.

Dude that Hakim truly sucked

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Big Caliber · September 1, 2009, 07:23 PM

I don't love my gun, we just have an understanding.

raftman · September 1, 2009, 07:28 PM

Love is a funny word. One can love their spouse, or one can love root beer, and hopefully it doesn't mean the same thing in both cases. If we're talking in the latter sense of the word, then loving a gun is just fine.

I don't think I'd ever personally say I love any of my guns, I certainly like them... well except one.

21CFA · September 1, 2009, 07:35 PM

No your problem is NOT, "...You give me too much credit. Im just a poor depraved cynic ." Your problem is that you have a computer that is logged to this website. (You and I are not the only contributors with that malady.) To your question: Yes,I do love my gun, and all of the above-mentioned comments are fitting. But the Real Question is, "Is your gun's name 'Loretta', or 'Karlos'? I reckoned over this awhile, and found that none of my guns have names. I just usually refer to their caliber, and gender never comes into the conversation. Just because "Gaston" is Glock's daddy's name does not make it a Wussy gun; latest BATFE (7/2009) numbers have Glock selling TWICE as many pieces as any other single maker in the U.S. HMMmmmm.

yamaha24 · September 1, 2009, 09:11 PM

Love my gun? Well I tend to love all of them the same,,, untill I get bored with one and I move on and love another gun and so on and so on,, you get the picture,, some guys really love there gun or gun's, can be a little creepy

, I like strange gun sometimes to

CUBAN REDNECK · September 1, 2009, 10:36 PM

I neither like nor dislike or love/hate my firearms. To me they are just instruments of recreation and self-defense. I do appreciate well made firearms over ones that are cheap and unreliable. They are also commodities that can be exchanged for money from time to time. I also prefer being armed as opposed to unarmed.

Kyo · September 1, 2009, 11:00 PM

you can love an inanimate object, half way anyway. You can like the way it looks, the way it feels, what it does for you, and most importantly HOW it makes you feel.
Just like women. You like how they look, the way they feel, what they do for you, and how they make you feel.
The gun+dog don't talk back though, i suppose thats why i love my dog and my gun so much. Cause, the dog just loves me no matter what, and I love that about my dog

Seriously the subject of the gun, using the gun, and just the subject of guns gave me, my dad, and lots of others in my family to hang out more often. Same with reloading. The whole culture promotes hanging out with friends/family. How do you not love that?

flippycat · September 1, 2009, 11:23 PM

Best said by Tina Turner..."What's Love Got to Do with It".

It in my opinion it is about choices, and freedoms to make choices on a plethora of reasons. Most people do not realize or take into consideration, that because it is not their choice does not make another's choice wrong. As any choice in firearms all have one equalizer in common and that is the responsibility that is expected by owning one.

Me personally, though there is no need to justify my choices. I like to defend my choices (especially those in fine working order) in this particular arena because not everyone has the ability to make the best choices when it comes to monetary items.

MauiDoc · September 2, 2009, 12:09 AM

I 'love' my gun 'cuz it was my dad's and it's about all I got left of him, other than memories and what he taught me about shooting--just the basics really, but it got me to where I am today.

B. Lahey · September 2, 2009, 12:30 AM

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Dude that Hakim truly sucked

Yep.

But right now somebody is carefully fitting a new barrel, fixing the trigger, and giving that rifle all sorts of love.

Dude, I think I know the guy who bought the sewer hakim. It sold immediately after I told him about the auction, so I would say it's a safe bet. Look at his friggin' living room ceiling...

That's serious rifle love.

Trashcan-man · September 2, 2009, 01:50 AM

B. Lahey, I don't think that is a living room, unless I'm mistaken those are bed posts. So that's his

bedroom

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I think you sit in the back room of your shop, making Judge chokes and custom barreled NAA minis in your hello kitty spandex outfit

This comment made me fall off of my bed laughing, want to puke a little, and want to cry all at the same time.

Trashcanthankgodidontknowwildalaskasoicantgetamentalimageman

B. Lahey · September 2, 2009, 02:41 AM

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unless I'm mistaken those are bed posts. So that's his bedroom

You were looking at furniture in that photo? Weird. Are you sure you didn't sign up for the wrong forum by accident?

CortJestir · September 2, 2009, 08:54 AM

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You were looking at furniture in that photo? Weird. Are you sure you didn't sign up for the wrong forum by accident?

LOL! Reminds me of a sign I saw at some tchotchke store SWMBO dragged me to. It read: "Look up! Half the store is above you!"

MLeake · September 2, 2009, 09:16 AM

.... or rifle insulation.

Never seen them packed like that.

Uncle Billy · September 2, 2009, 09:17 AM

<<Changed my mind>>

Nightowl · September 2, 2009, 09:40 AM

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I love my guns because they never talk back unless I pull the trigger.

Amen to that! 'Nuff said.

Trashcan-man · September 2, 2009, 12:15 PM

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You were looking at furniture in that photo? Weird. Are you sure you didn't sign up for the wrong forum by accident?

LOL...I saw the rifles, but how can your eyes not be drawn down to the bottom half of the picture? Maybe I'm a little OCD.

Evan Thomas · September 2, 2009, 12:41 PM

I don't much care for the bedposts, but that looks like quite a nice old drop-leaf table.

Back on topic for just a second here... I think WA's question taps into a couple of things: there's how we feel about our own personal guns, including whether we think they love us back

-- but there's also that whole brand-loyalty thing: the interminable Rem. 870 v Moss. 500 threads, the love/hate relationships people have with Glocks, etc.

By analogy with other products, a lot of this must have to do with the way guns and gun brands are marketed. Ford v. Chevy comes to mind here: a Ford truck and a Chevy truck are functionally interchangeable, but so many people (well... guys, if we're speaking truth here

) are "Ford Truck Men." Or not... And this depends on appeals to emotion, not to reason.

So what are the equivalent marketing strategies used by gun manufacturers, to turn someone into a "Glock Guy," for instance?? How do they persuade us to love what we love?

Or is it just that we've been conditioned by advertising to regard brand choices in general as part of who we are... so we more or less have to identify with one brand or another?

(Disclaimer: I know we all have our own brand loyalties, and we're all convinced they're completely rational, but for the sake of discussion, let's pretend that, say, Ruger and S&W are just as functionally interchangeable as Ford and Chevy. No flames, please.

)

MLeake · September 2, 2009, 01:19 PM

... some weapons just match my body better than others do, so some of my loyalties are purely based on ergonomics. This could be trigger reach, trigger feel, grip shape and size, length of pull for a longarm, control position, control size and shape, etc.

... some customer service departments have earned better reputations than others, both in terms of interpersonal relations, and in terms of weapons actually being repaired to proper operating condition.

... some manufacturers are more responsive to requests for support items (higher capacity magazines, grip adapters, etc) from their customer base.

... the only "emotional" attachment I have to a given brand will depend on whether it primarily uses US labor, or overseas labor. This doesn't mean I don't ever buy foreign: my CZ's, SIGs, and Browning BAR were all produced overseas; it does mean that aside from exceptional cases where those particular weapons were specifically what I wanted, I have made an effort to buy weapons made here, whether S&W, Ruger, Kahr, Dan Wesson, Remington, or SaberDefense. In much the same way, my motorcycle was a Harley, and my last four cars and trucks were all Ford or GM.

Cheers,

M

September 1, 2009, 04:34 PM	#27
spacemanspiff Senior Member Join Date: January 16, 2002 Location: alaska Posts: 3,498	Wow, your triggers go off pretty easily, professor. I have to squeeze mine to get anything to happen. I hear its common in men my age. __________________ "Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person hypocrisy begins." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

September 1, 2009, 04:57 PM	#30
NickySantoro Junior member Join Date: July 14, 2008 Posts: 217	I don't "love" any inanimate object. I do "appreciate" their usefulness, depending upon the object. Last edited by Shane Tuttle; September 1, 2009 at 06:44 PM. Reason: Inflammatory remarks

September 1, 2009, 06:48 PM	#31
B. Lahey Senior Member Join Date: March 17, 2008 Location: Indiana Posts: 2,857	The only guns I love are the ones passed down through my family, and even then I can recognize that they are not perfect mechanical creations. The rest of them I just like, or don't like. The ones I don't like anymore, I send to Wildalaska and he conjures up the voodoo spirits and turns them into piles of money. Then I get more guns I like. Folks can say my guns suck, that's ok. Sometimes they are right. __________________ "A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards." -George Orwell

September 1, 2009, 07:35 PM	#35
21CFA Junior member Join Date: September 19, 2005 Posts: 146	Wildy: No your problem is NOT, "...You give me too much credit. Im just a poor depraved cynic ." Your problem is that you have a computer that is logged to this website. (You and I are not the only contributors with that malady.) To your question: Yes,I do love my gun, and all of the above-mentioned comments are fitting. But the Real Question is, "Is your gun's name 'Loretta', or 'Karlos'? I reckoned over this awhile, and found that none of my guns have names. I just usually refer to their caliber, and gender never comes into the conversation. Just because "Gaston" is Glock's daddy's name does not make it a Wussy gun; latest BATFE (7/2009) numbers have Glock selling TWICE as many pieces as any other single maker in the U.S. HMMmmmm.

September 1, 2009, 10:36 PM	#37
CUBAN REDNECK Senior Member Join Date: May 8, 2009 Location: SW FLORIDA Posts: 318	Just an instrument I neither like nor dislike or love/hate my firearms. To me they are just instruments of recreation and self-defense. I do appreciate well made firearms over ones that are cheap and unreliable. They are also commodities that can be exchanged for money from time to time. I also prefer being armed as opposed to unarmed.

September 1, 2009, 04:32 PM	#26
markj Senior Member Join Date: October 27, 2005 Location: Crescent Iowa Posts: 2,971	The only gun I love is a plastic blow up model. Guns are tools to be used for a specific purpose, they cannot love you in return like say a puppy can. Love your kids and family, use the gun to protect them if needed or provide them with food. Loving a gun is like loving a favorite fence post.....

September 1, 2009, 07:23 PM	#33
Big Caliber Senior Member Join Date: October 10, 2006 Location: S. CA Posts: 421	I don't love my gun, we just have an understanding.

September 1, 2009, 07:28 PM	#34
raftman Senior Member Join Date: May 4, 2009 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,890	Love is a funny word. One can love their spouse, or one can love root beer, and hopefully it doesn't mean the same thing in both cases. If we're talking in the latter sense of the word, then loving a gun is just fine. I don't think I'd ever personally say I love any of my guns, I certainly like them... well except one.

September 1, 2009, 09:11 PM	#36
yamaha24 Member Join Date: June 29, 2009 Posts: 28	Love my gun? Well I tend to love all of them the same,,, untill I get bored with one and I move on and love another gun and so on and so on,, you get the picture,, some guys really love there gun or gun's, can be a little creepy , I like strange gun sometimes to

September 1, 2009, 11:00 PM	#38
Kyo Senior Member Join Date: April 14, 2009 Posts: 897	you can love an inanimate object, half way anyway. You can like the way it looks, the way it feels, what it does for you, and most importantly HOW it makes you feel. Just like women. You like how they look, the way they feel, what they do for you, and how they make you feel. The gun+dog don't talk back though, i suppose thats why i love my dog and my gun so much. Cause, the dog just loves me no matter what, and I love that about my dog Seriously the subject of the gun, using the gun, and just the subject of guns gave me, my dad, and lots of others in my family to hang out more often. Same with reloading. The whole culture promotes hanging out with friends/family. How do you not love that? __________________ 1. The gun is *always* loaded. 2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. 3. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you are ready to shoot. 4. Be be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

September 1, 2009, 11:23 PM	#39
flippycat Senior Member Join Date: January 30, 2009 Location: Hamilton, Ohio Posts: 213	Best said by Tina Turner..."What's Love Got to Do with It". It in my opinion it is about choices, and freedoms to make choices on a plethora of reasons. Most people do not realize or take into consideration, that because it is not their choice does not make another's choice wrong. As any choice in firearms all have one equalizer in common and that is the responsibility that is expected by owning one. Me personally, though there is no need to justify my choices. I like to defend my choices (especially those in fine working order) in this particular arena because not everyone has the ability to make the best choices when it comes to monetary items. __________________ Basics VS Marlboros both will kill you one just tastes better Ohios Firearm Classifieds profirearm.com

September 2, 2009, 12:09 AM	#40
MauiDoc Senior Member Join Date: June 28, 2007 Location: Mountainside Posts: 126	I 'love' my gun 'cuz it was my dad's and it's about all I got left of him, other than memories and what he taught me about shooting--just the basics really, but it got me to where I am today.

September 2, 2009, 09:16 AM	#45
MLeake Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2007 Location: Outside KC, MO Posts: 10,128	Not sure if that ceiling is a case of rifle love... .... or rifle insulation. Never seen them packed like that.

September 2, 2009, 09:17 AM	#46
Uncle Billy Senior Member Join Date: June 10, 2009 Location: Small city in New York Posts: 482	It's a matter of tactile stimulation... <<Changed my mind>> __________________ Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains? Last edited by Uncle Billy; September 2, 2009 at 10:54 AM.

September 2, 2009, 12:41 PM	#49
Evan Thomas Senior Member Join Date: July 7, 2008 Location: Upper midwest Posts: 5,631	I don't much care for the bedposts, but that looks like quite a nice old drop-leaf table. Back on topic for just a second here... I think WA's question taps into a couple of things: there's how we feel about our own personal guns, including whether we think they love us back -- but there's also that whole brand-loyalty thing: the interminable Rem. 870 v Moss. 500 threads, the love/hate relationships people have with Glocks, etc. By analogy with other products, a lot of this must have to do with the way guns and gun brands are marketed. Ford v. Chevy comes to mind here: a Ford truck and a Chevy truck are functionally interchangeable, but so many people (well... guys, if we're speaking truth here ) are "Ford Truck Men." Or not... And this depends on appeals to emotion, not to reason. So what are the equivalent marketing strategies used by gun manufacturers, to turn someone into a "Glock Guy," for instance?? How do they persuade us to love what we love? Or is it just that we've been conditioned by advertising to regard brand choices in general as part of who we are... so we more or less have to identify with one brand or another? (Disclaimer: I know we all have our own brand loyalties, and we're all convinced they're completely rational, but for the sake of discussion, let's pretend that, say, Ruger and S&W are just as functionally interchangeable as Ford and Chevy. No flames, please. ) __________________ Never let anything mechanical know you're in a hurry.

September 2, 2009, 01:19 PM	#50
MLeake Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2007 Location: Outside KC, MO Posts: 10,128	Vanya, assuming equal functional reliability and accuracy potential... ... some weapons just match my body better than others do, so some of my loyalties are purely based on ergonomics. This could be trigger reach, trigger feel, grip shape and size, length of pull for a longarm, control position, control size and shape, etc. ... some customer service departments have earned better reputations than others, both in terms of interpersonal relations, and in terms of weapons actually being repaired to proper operating condition. ... some manufacturers are more responsive to requests for support items (higher capacity magazines, grip adapters, etc) from their customer base. ... the only "emotional" attachment I have to a given brand will depend on whether it primarily uses US labor, or overseas labor. This doesn't mean I don't ever buy foreign: my CZ's, SIGs, and Browning BAR were all produced overseas; it does mean that aside from exceptional cases where those particular weapons were specifically what I wanted, I have made an effort to buy weapons made here, whether S&W, Ruger, Kahr, Dan Wesson, Remington, or SaberDefense. In much the same way, my motorcycle was a Harley, and my last four cars and trucks were all Ford or GM. Cheers, M