You know you are a gun nut when you rationalize a gun purchase by...

[rvb]

I once had a dream the house/family was being attacked by a polar bear. I complained to the wife that I didn't have anything large enough to defend against a polar bear... until I finally got my first .308 (M1A). I then told the wife I could finally sleep at night.

-rvb

 

[rvb]

This summer when the paperwork clears on my .22 silencer, I'll be justifying a couple new purchases to have something to mount it on (don't want to thread / hack on the ones I already have).

-rvb

 

[jamil]

Don't know if anyone else has kept track, but IMHO I'd say so far the top excuse award is a tie.

Top excuse:

JetGirl - buying sights that happened to come with a new gun wrapped around them.

MCGrease - Finding a trigger and having to build a gun around it.
​

Honorable mention:

cook4army - Being "forced" to buy a gun because he bought two too many mags as a gift.


​

 

[silverspoon]

I recently had to purchase a SxS 20 gauge because everyone knows you can't hunt rabbits with a over and under 20 gauge. It just doesn't work that way. Over and unders are for bird hunting and clay shooting. Pfffffft

 

[Leo]

Don't down play the investment angle. I paid for 3 years of Grad school selling off three safes of gun collection. I made money on every one, up to 100% on some of the ones I bought right. In that same period of time Merrill Lynch lost 32% of my savings

 

[radar44]

My wife is a golfer . You don't play golf with 1 club . Different clubs do different things .



'nuff said ----

 

[Dale1320]

I like using "It's cheaper than a race car..."

 

[churchmouse]

I like using "It's cheaper than a race car..."

Uh...it is.......

I have proof.

 

[Leo]

Uh...it is.......

I have proof.

+1

 

[BugI02]

I have a number of guns that are no longer in production. Many models I have in pairs (or more). The excuse is if one has a failure I can still run one while I hunt for parts; or, in extremis, pull parts from one to revive another.

I have also used the 'Black shoes' argument, as in:

Wife: "Do you really need another handgun?"
Me: "Do you really need 8 pairs of black shoes?" Be wary. This tack seems to create grudging acceptance combined with background level of anger, probably due to the implied criticizm of shoes

 

[BluePig]

My friend (coronet67 on INGO) and I were at an auction a while back.
He won a bid on some mixed ammo boxes.
It wasn't much, like maybe $20 total.
Digging around in the boxes, he found a complete box of 50 AR that had never been opened.
He had nothing that would shoot this caliber.
So, this last weekend he went to the 1500 to pick up a Desert Eagle in 50 AE.
Now he can shoot the ammo.

 

[Psode27]

I bought 1k rds of ammo for a rifle I didn't own, but I got a great deal.... so along came the rifle soon after.
I also bought 20 mags for a rifle I didn't own (G3, 99¢/piece!), couple months later I found a CETME...
I had to own something firing every major NATO caliber to satisfy most SHTF scenarios I could dream up....
Another one is the need for parts. I would much rather stock an entire rifle to just pull parts from.... or two. Sometimes people forget the value of redundancy...
My wife doesn't believe any of my reasoning anymore anyway, I could probably just stop making excuses for new toys....

 

[nwigunguy]

Well, mine was a Browning m1919a4 as a bday present and investment. Wife calls the gun "Gunzilla". Its big, its heavy and cant wait to make it rock and roll. LOL. Just got it yesturday. Then as another bday present yesturday got a IWI Tavor and put my 4x acog on it. She just shakes here head at me lol

 

[kiddchaos]

I now find myself saying things like "That costs about 3-AR's".

 

[bradmedic04]

How about buying a holster and finding the box was marked incorrectly but rather than returning, just buying a gun that fits the holster?

This is a hypothetical. Totally. I mean a friend did that. I wasn't even there. WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME?

 

[tallend]

Over the years, Thompson Center has offered barrels in over 200 calibers--------I only have 118 so far---------------I'm still looking------my last "wonderful find" was a (TCA) barrel chambered in ".17 Mach IV"------case formed from a 221 Fireball

tallend

 

[Bigdog357]

I have bought guns that I didn't even want to own just because they were a good deal, thinking that I am going to flip them for a profit. Problem is I never sell them, once I clean them up and shoot them I don't want to sell them. Its a sickness with no known cure

 

[Joseph]

My single rationalization was well if shf I have to make sure I have as many calibers as possible so when trying to fiND supplies and you come across ammo you have something that will shoot that caliber... it's simple. Plus multiple guns in the same caliber just means if one happens to break you have a back up.

 

[bigelowe]

I tell my wife i dont drink, i dont smoke , i dont go out and party with my guy friends and i dont go on guy trips to where ever, but i could start. Or i could by this gun.

 

[church]

I'm not married, I need no justification to buy more guns.