You may be a gun nut if... - Page 2

yorec · July 3, 2005, 02:09 AM

What do you mean "MIGHT" be a gun nut?

There is absolutely NO doubt in my mind...

But for those that do wonder -

if your favorite newspaper lacks a business section, an entertainment section, and comics because it is really a firearms wish cataloge...

or if you keep back issues of such publications much longer than the adds' prices could ever be expected to be honored...

or if you undertake other hobbies (like leathercraft, reloading, wood finishing, lathe operation, metal plating, etc.) because it would be useful in furthering your interest in firearms...

Yeah, I don't wonder at all if I might be a gun nut.

Doesn't worry me either!

utaherrn · July 3, 2005, 02:17 AM

I don't appreciate you guys talking about me behind my back like this.

I'm going to go pout at the gun store.....

Wraith · July 3, 2005, 02:54 AM

You might be a gun nut... if you're constantly finding .38 brass on the deck that you somehow missed.

farmall · July 3, 2005, 05:10 PM

If you ever bought a gun because you already had dies to load for it.
If co-workers have guns for sale, they come see you first.
If you ever contemplate strategy for sneaking a new gun past the significant other.
If you drive a 22 year old car with 270,000 miles everywhere, because a car payment would cut into the gun fund. (84 Olds 88 Diesel)
If you've ever been held up at the airport because you had used your carry on bag as a range bag the day before.
If opening the door on any vehicle you own is accompanied by the sound of brass falling out.
These all sound familiar to me!!!

big daddy 9mm · July 3, 2005, 05:35 PM

you have lost track of how many rounds you have fired through your guns.

anyone here use hopps9 for after shave?????

sm · July 3, 2005, 10:41 PM

Not me, nope...nuh uh...

Granted I did just spent 3 hrs in TFL archives going back to 1999 doing research.

Gabe McMillian on rifles, labgrade on sneaking up and going "boo" at deer [ miss those now gone...sniff]

Tamara and LawDog's vehicle accidents, survived the LawDog files again, along with the Hottentots by Mike Irwin, and no matter how many times I read it "duct tapped ceramic plates for .308" by a mall ninja - I lose it.

CRSam's advice and him taking "alternate routes" - he never gets lost...took tours of various Library sources [ Thomas.LOC.gov]...

...me a gun nut ...can't be. All I was doing was looking for something in reference to Colt Woodsmans...got a "wee bit sidetracked" - but had one helluva of time.

Now where was I headed? Oh yeah...http://www.colt22.com/

willsjeep · July 4, 2005, 03:15 PM

You might be a gun nut if you can flip the top of your coffee table over & use it for a gun cleaning stand.
My wife even calls me a gun nut. (Well, nut anyway)
Will

UziAnnie · July 4, 2005, 06:34 PM

If you give all your guns names!

If the smell of Hoppe's #9 really turns you on!

If you would rather go gun shopping than jewelry shopping.

If you take a part-time job in a gun shop just so you can feed your habit.

If the inmates are afraid of you!

(I work in a prison)

If you spend all of your free time at home on gun forums or reading gun magazines and books.

If you buy a gun on the 4th of July just because it seems the right thing to do to celebrate. (Ruger Vaquero)

aaaBob · July 4, 2005, 07:19 PM

After cleaning the house you clean your guns
so your house have a clean fresh sent of hoope's # 9
all day

Avizpls · July 5, 2005, 10:05 AM

BEFORE cleaning your house, you clean your guns.

cls12vg30 · July 5, 2005, 02:45 PM

Quote:

when children are coming over you have to run around and de-gun the house.

LMAO.....guilty, sooo guilty.

ATW525 · July 5, 2005, 03:14 PM

You almost never clean your house, but your guns are always spotless.

When you do clean you use Hoppes for everything from the toliet to the kitchen floor to the dishes, because you don't own any other cleaning products.

You keep a package of cleaning patches in the bathroom because "one of these days you're going to remember to buy some toliet paper".

You order take out every night because your oven is always full of gun parts being refinished.

You destroyed your microwave trying to refinish gun parts faster.

Kevin Quinlan · July 5, 2005, 03:26 PM

I used to laugh when I saw my mail man.I got EVERY gun mag published.I also got a subscription for Martha Stewart Living, and Home Beautifull for my girlfriend but they came addressed to me. Probably thought I had the cleanest guns around.

Kevin

Ramcharger · July 5, 2005, 04:52 PM

The local gunshop owner went to my Dads funeral. Does that count?
AND he retired less that a year later....

Capt. Charlie · July 5, 2005, 05:01 PM

"You keep a package of cleaning patches in the bathroom because "one of these days you're going to remember to buy some toliet paper".

ROFLMAO!

For me it's usually an old copy of "Shotgun News"

.

Redondo · July 5, 2005, 06:20 PM

Capt Charlie, actually the answer is, "you would rather air dry than use your old Shotgun News"!

willsjeep · July 5, 2005, 08:33 PM

Update to my earlier post:
You might be a gun nut if on a trip to Wal-mart you run to find your wife and take her to the jewelry counter and spend money on her (because she is special to you!). Then on the way out you go back by the gun department and buy the rifle you saw when you first came in.
A Henry Big Boy 44 (and fifty empty brass cartridges) now resides in my gun cabinet (and a new ring on my wifes finger, there went this years bonus check)

Will

ATW525 · July 5, 2005, 08:55 PM

You might be a gun nut if you sleep on a $50 air matress because buying a real bed would mean one less gun you could potentially buy.

QuickTrig · July 5, 2005, 08:56 PM

You may be a gun nut if your "wish list" of firearms easily out values the cost of your house, car, pretty much every other none firearm possesion you own.

DT Guy · July 5, 2005, 08:58 PM

Ummmm....

My dogs are named "Cooper" and "Colonel Jeff"....I think I might be a gun nut

Larry

Skeetin'870 · July 5, 2005, 09:22 PM

When you dont want to clean out the trunk of your car because then you would lose count of how much ammo you fired last week

USP45usp · July 5, 2005, 09:31 PM

.... when you get your FFL03 and you shake like a leaf from excitment when you sign a copy over at a local store and you DON'T have to wait that extra 5 minutes for a check.

.... When You actually look forward to completely breaking down a gun because you have to clean off the cosmo (and I'm talking down to the last screw/pin on some of them

).

.... When you look at the gun "porn" on the boards and realize that you don't have penis envy, you have gun envy

(if that last one was out of line, please delete).

Wayne

rugerdude · July 6, 2005, 07:15 PM

If the smell of federal shells being fired is better than anything you can remember smelling.

If you can't have fun without something going BOOM!

If the value and usage of your guns exceeds that of your car, or anything else you own. (not really fair in my case because I can't drive my volvo station wagon 'cause I'm 15)

If your friends don't like watching action movies, playing videogames with you because you constantly say how unrealistic everything is or just start naming all of the guns you see.

When people ask you a gun related question they lose interest because the answer is so long and complicated.

If your friend tells you that his brother got a gun and you ask him what it was and he doesn't know.......so you proceed to ask him details about it so that you can figure out what it is so that you can say: He should have bought a...

If you have a shotgun shell collection with shells 7 different colors.

You can't get your point across in a gun rights debate because your answers get far too complicated by going into EXACTLY how a particular gun works. (Can I get an amen skeetin'870?)

If when you talk to someone you don't know at school and they say "You're that gun guy right?"

Skeetin'870 · July 6, 2005, 08:38 PM

Quote:

You can't get your point across in a gun rights debate because your answers get far too complicated by going into EXACTLY how a particular gun works. (Can I get an amen skeetin'870?)

Amen my brother amen.
Our school is full of antis and getting into a gun control debate somebody said that shooting holes in concentric circles on paper is training to kill somebody. And that assault weapons are weapons that can kill.
I need to get a new set of assault weapons cause mine dont seem to kill people. Just concentric circles and clay pidgeons

USP45usp · July 6, 2005, 10:32 PM

Yeah, I've noticed that my firearms aren't worth anything either. They go out and "kill people" but mine haven't in over the 20 years that I've owned a couple of them, the 10 years that I'm owned half of them, and 30 years since I'm owned all of them.

Stupid guns

Wayne

July 3, 2005, 02:09 AM	#26
yorec Senior Member Join Date: February 2, 2000 Location: Wyoming Posts: 2,328	What do you mean "MIGHT" be a gun nut? There is absolutely NO doubt in my mind... But for those that do wonder - if your favorite newspaper lacks a business section, an entertainment section, and comics because it is really a firearms wish cataloge... or if you keep back issues of such publications much longer than the adds' prices could ever be expected to be honored... or if you undertake other hobbies (like leathercraft, reloading, wood finishing, lathe operation, metal plating, etc.) because it would be useful in furthering your interest in firearms... Yeah, I don't wonder at all if I might be a gun nut. Doesn't worry me either! __________________ What part of "... shall not be infringed..." don't you understand?

July 3, 2005, 02:54 AM	#28
Wraith Senior Member Join Date: July 22, 2004 Location: The Free State Posts: 498	You might be a gun nut... if you're constantly finding .38 brass on the deck that you somehow missed. __________________ June 23, 2003 GRATZ et al. v. BOLLINGER et al. The day America died. Never Forget 9/11. Cold dead hands...

July 3, 2005, 05:35 PM	#30
big daddy 9mm Senior Member Join Date: May 3, 2005 Posts: 451	mmmm... you have lost track of how many rounds you have fired through your guns. anyone here use hopps9 for after shave?????

July 3, 2005, 10:41 PM	#31
sm Senior Member Join Date: February 5, 2002 Posts: 1,819	You may be a gun nut if... Not me, nope...nuh uh... Granted I did just spent 3 hrs in TFL archives going back to 1999 doing research. Gabe McMillian on rifles, labgrade on sneaking up and going "boo" at deer [ miss those now gone...sniff] Tamara and LawDog's vehicle accidents, survived the LawDog files again, along with the Hottentots by Mike Irwin, and no matter how many times I read it "duct tapped ceramic plates for .308" by a mall ninja - I lose it. CRSam's advice and him taking "alternate routes" - he never gets lost...took tours of various Library sources [ Thomas.LOC.gov]... ...me a gun nut ...can't be. All I was doing was looking for something in reference to Colt Woodsmans...got a "wee bit sidetracked" - but had one helluva of time. Now where was I headed? Oh yeah...http://www.colt22.com/ __________________ Use Enough Gun TFL Alumni

July 4, 2005, 06:34 PM	#33
UziAnnie Senior Member Join Date: February 12, 2005 Location: Western Kentucky Posts: 120	If you give all your guns names! If the smell of Hoppe's #9 really turns you on! If you would rather go gun shopping than jewelry shopping. If you take a part-time job in a gun shop just so you can feed your habit. If the inmates are afraid of you! (I work in a prison) If you spend all of your free time at home on gun forums or reading gun magazines and books. If you buy a gun on the 4th of July just because it seems the right thing to do to celebrate. (Ruger Vaquero) __________________ I am not your typical old librarian!

July 3, 2005, 02:17 AM	#27
utaherrn Senior Member Join Date: March 16, 2005 Location: Happy Valley, USA Posts: 649	I don't appreciate you guys talking about me behind my back like this. I'm going to go pout at the gun store.....

July 3, 2005, 05:10 PM	#29
farmall Senior Member Join Date: December 7, 2004 Location: Beatrice Nebraska Posts: 613	If you ever bought a gun because you already had dies to load for it. If co-workers have guns for sale, they come see you first. If you ever contemplate strategy for sneaking a new gun past the significant other. If you drive a 22 year old car with 270,000 miles everywhere, because a car payment would cut into the gun fund. (84 Olds 88 Diesel) If you've ever been held up at the airport because you had used your carry on bag as a range bag the day before. If opening the door on any vehicle you own is accompanied by the sound of brass falling out. These all sound familiar to me!!!

July 4, 2005, 03:15 PM	#32
willsjeep Senior Member Join Date: February 8, 2005 Posts: 180	You might be a gun nut if you can flip the top of your coffee table over & use it for a gun cleaning stand. My wife even calls me a gun nut. (Well, nut anyway) Will

July 4, 2005, 07:19 PM	#34
aaaBob Member Join Date: April 25, 2005 Location: low & to the left Posts: 25	After cleaning the house you clean your guns so your house have a clean fresh sent of hoope's # 9 all day __________________ Bergara M40-ish Remington 700 223 Smith & Wesson 357 mag

July 5, 2005, 10:05 AM	#35
Avizpls Senior Member Join Date: November 9, 2004 Posts: 774	BEFORE cleaning your house, you clean your guns.

July 5, 2005, 03:14 PM	#37
ATW525 Senior Member Join Date: March 14, 2005 Location: Concord, NH Posts: 2,723	You almost never clean your house, but your guns are always spotless. When you do clean you use Hoppes for everything from the toliet to the kitchen floor to the dishes, because you don't own any other cleaning products. You keep a package of cleaning patches in the bathroom because "one of these days you're going to remember to buy some toliet paper". You order take out every night because your oven is always full of gun parts being refinished. You destroyed your microwave trying to refinish gun parts faster.

July 5, 2005, 03:26 PM	#38
Kevin Quinlan Junior member Join Date: June 28, 2005 Posts: 93	I used to laugh when I saw my mail man.I got EVERY gun mag published.I also got a subscription for Martha Stewart Living, and Home Beautifull for my girlfriend but they came addressed to me. Probably thought I had the cleanest guns around. Kevin

July 5, 2005, 04:52 PM	#39
Ramcharger Senior Member Join Date: December 26, 2004 Posts: 371	The local gunshop owner went to my Dads funeral. Does that count? AND he retired less that a year later....

July 5, 2005, 05:01 PM	#40
Capt. Charlie Moderator Emeritus Join Date: March 24, 2005 Location: Steubenville, OH Posts: 4,446	"You keep a package of cleaning patches in the bathroom because "one of these days you're going to remember to buy some toliet paper". ROFLMAO! For me it's usually an old copy of "Shotgun News" . __________________ TFL Members are ambassadors to the world for firearm owners. What kind of ambassador does *your* post make *you?* I train in earnest, to do the things that I pray in earnest, I'll never have to do. --Capt. Charlie

July 5, 2005, 06:20 PM	#41
Redondo Senior Member Join Date: August 19, 2001 Posts: 287	Capt Charlie, actually the answer is, "you would rather air dry than use your old Shotgun News"!

July 5, 2005, 08:33 PM	#42
willsjeep Senior Member Join Date: February 8, 2005 Posts: 180	Update to my earlier post: You might be a gun nut if on a trip to Wal-mart you run to find your wife and take her to the jewelry counter and spend money on her (because she is special to you!). Then on the way out you go back by the gun department and buy the rifle you saw when you first came in. A Henry Big Boy 44 (and fifty empty brass cartridges) now resides in my gun cabinet (and a new ring on my wifes finger, there went this years bonus check) Will

July 5, 2005, 08:55 PM	#43
ATW525 Senior Member Join Date: March 14, 2005 Location: Concord, NH Posts: 2,723	You might be a gun nut if you sleep on a $50 air matress because buying a real bed would mean one less gun you could potentially buy.

July 5, 2005, 08:56 PM	#44
QuickTrig Senior Member Join Date: June 26, 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 157	You may be a gun nut if your "wish list" of firearms easily out values the cost of your house, car, pretty much every other none firearm possesion you own. __________________ Gun safety is my religion....Preach it

July 5, 2005, 08:58 PM	#45
DT Guy Senior Member Join Date: February 4, 2001 Posts: 959	Ummmm.... My dogs are named "Cooper" and "Colonel Jeff"....I think I might be a gun nut Larry __________________ He who fights and runs away had better run pretty damn fast. Government, Anarchy and Chaos

July 5, 2005, 09:22 PM	#46
Skeetin'870 Senior Member Join Date: April 11, 2005 Location: Tulsa,Ok. Posts: 288	When you dont want to clean out the trunk of your car because then you would lose count of how much ammo you fired last week __________________ Mental prep for skeet 1 Look for the Bird 2 Gun speed to target speed 3 Head on the gun 4 Follow Through

July 5, 2005, 09:31 PM	#47
USP45usp Junior member Join Date: May 17, 2000 Location: Eugene, OR Posts: 3,427	.... when you get your FFL03 and you shake like a leaf from excitment when you sign a copy over at a local store and you DON'T have to wait that extra 5 minutes for a check. .... When You actually look forward to completely breaking down a gun because you have to clean off the cosmo (and I'm talking down to the last screw/pin on some of them ). .... When you look at the gun "porn" on the boards and realize that you don't have penis envy, you have gun envy (if that last one was out of line, please delete). Wayne

July 6, 2005, 07:15 PM	#48
rugerdude Senior Member Join Date: July 6, 2004 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Posts: 1,443	If the smell of federal shells being fired is better than anything you can remember smelling. If you can't have fun without something going BOOM! If the value and usage of your guns exceeds that of your car, or anything else you own. (not really fair in my case because I can't drive my volvo station wagon 'cause I'm 15) If your friends don't like watching action movies, playing videogames with you because you constantly say how unrealistic everything is or just start naming all of the guns you see. When people ask you a gun related question they lose interest because the answer is so long and complicated. If your friend tells you that his brother got a gun and you ask him what it was and he doesn't know.......so you proceed to ask him details about it so that you can figure out what it is so that you can say: He should have bought a... If you have a shotgun shell collection with shells 7 different colors. You can't get your point across in a gun rights debate because your answers get far too complicated by going into EXACTLY how a particular gun works. (Can I get an amen skeetin'870?) If when you talk to someone you don't know at school and they say "You're that gun guy right?" __________________ "The SKS is a rifle, made the way they should be, out of a heavy block of crappy commie steel, set in an inletted semi-reshaped 2x4." Not my quote but I agree completely.

July 6, 2005, 10:32 PM	#50
USP45usp Junior member Join Date: May 17, 2000 Location: Eugene, OR Posts: 3,427	Yeah, I've noticed that my firearms aren't worth anything either. They go out and "kill people" but mine haven't in over the 20 years that I've owned a couple of them, the 10 years that I'm owned half of them, and 30 years since I'm owned all of them. Stupid guns Wayne