He's got a good list, and I've got a few additions of my own:
- If you've ever bought a firearm because you have the same gun but it's too sentimental/fragile/dangerous to shoot, you might be a gun nut.
- If you carry a gun for self-defense and base wardrobe decisions around your carry piece, you might be a gun nut.
- If you've bought magazines for a particular firearm knowing that they were less-than-adequate, but wanted more for range time, you might be a gun nut.
- If you've ever bought a gun you didn't particularly care for simply because there was a chance it could be banned, you're almost certainly a gun nut.
- If you see a cop/security guard's sidearm and your first thought is "Glock, Sig, or S&W?", you might be a gun nut.
- If you bought a firearm accessory solely for the purpose of making said firearm "more evil", you are definitely a gun nut.
- If you've bought a magazine/holster/other random accessory for a gun you haven't fired in 10 years, you might be a gun nut.
- If you get e-mail newsletters from more than one firearms warehouse or gun store, you're a gun nut.
- If the employees of the local gun store know you by sight, you're a gun nut.
- If the employees of said local gun store call you up if you haven't been by in a week and they're concerned for your health, you're definitely a gun nut...
What are your own "you might be a gun nut if" answers?
That is all.
32 comments:
If you've ever picked up a spray bottle and indexed your finger along the side to keep your booger hook off the trigger...
OMG, yes. BTDT...
Hi everyone! My name is Mopar, and I'm a gun nut.
Hi, mopar...
The last one one the list its happened to me yup im a gun nut.
If guns are banned but you can still whip out a backup crossbow you may be a gun nut.
allright, Jat, I'll throw a few out...
If your kids are counting the days until they turn 10 because they know that's when they get their own 22, you're a gun nut and have infected your kids.
If your kids would rather take a trip to the rifle range than the water park, you have a family of young, budding, gun nuts.
If your 8 year old goes with you to the range and starts the "Safety Nazi" routine, reciting Cooper's Four Rules whenever she sees them being broken, yup, you're a gun nut. Double that if you're proud of her for speaking up.
If your wife buys you a coffee table that - SUPRISE! - opens to reveal itself to be a six rifle storage device, you are a gun nut and are fortunate enough to be married to one.
If you name the family pets "Remington, Savage, Walther, Sig, etc," you are a gun nut.
If you've lost count of how many you own............
"If you see a cop/security guard's sidearm and your first thought is "Glock, Sig, or S&W?", you might be a gun nut."... and if it's not apparent, you have no problem walking right up and asking. Sir, is that a...
If you read Rick's comment and wonder where might MY wife buy such a coffee table..... you might be a gun nut.
"If you carry a gun for self-defense and base wardrobe decisions around your carry piece, you might be a gun nut."
EVERY one of these cold mornings I've went to Weather.com just to see if it'd stay cold enugh for me to carry the 1911.
And I get pissed to see it jump up into the 70s in July and wishing it would stay cooler!
Yep, Gun nut!
If you see an XYZ Police Officer/Security gaurd and say "well, he's XYZ and I know he has a Glock/Sig/1911/S&W because thats what they carry", you might just be a gun nut.
If you say EBR instead of AR, you might be a gun nut.
If your watching an action movie and randomly blurt out "thats bad trigger discipline", you are a gun nut.
If you carry a gun for self-defense and base wardrobe decisions around your carry piece, you might be a gun nut.
No, in that case you're just being sensible.
Now, if you insist on wearing entirely-inappropriate-for-the-season clothes just because you want to carry a particular piece, then you might be a gun nut.
What if you're watching a historical film, say Gettysburg and you find yourself trying to identify all the various guns used by various characters therein -- does that make you a gun nut?
If you spritz on a little Hoppe's No. 9 before going on a date...
If you change the furniture on your AR to match your mood...
If you've ever wanted a Mauser but can't decide between Service Select, Collector Select, or Premium Select grade from mauser.org...
If the guy at the ammo counter at Wal-Mart stashes a couple boxes of 9mm 'cause he knows you'll be in to check...
If you've decided against buying a car you really wanted because the lumbar support hits your carry gun the wrong way...
If you've taken pictures of your targets to post on Facebook...
If you get mad because that one winger ruins the picture you were going to take of your target and post on Facebook...
If you've custom-ordered a firearm just to get a custom serial number...
mopar - I asked the wife that. Turns out she had it custom made for me by a local woodworker.
Gotta love a woman who knows what her man wants.
dOOd I got a perfect score on your test :-)
Do I get extra points for buying accessories for a gun I havent shot in 15 years?
...Or having to make a multi page excel spreadsheet to track reloading components, ammo, and magazines ?
...Or deciding that I should split up the magazine page because belts and links deserve their own page?
:-)
If you ask your date if he brought "protection" and he knows you're talking about eye and ear. . . you're a gun nut.
Sheesh. You get 18 comments I get one.
Hey, I started off with linky love!
If you've ever wanted a Mauser but can't decide between Service Select, Collector Select, or Premium Select grade from mauser.org...
If you know Mitchell's Mausers is way overpriced, so you go and get a FFL03 so you can buy one for less money from a wholesaler......
If you've decided against buying a car you really wanted because the lumbar support hits your carry gun the wrong way... Did that, bought the truck instead!
If you go to pull onto the base on a Saturday or Sunday morning and the gate guards are asking what you're shooting today.
Oh yeah, and I'm sure I hit everyone of those too...
I don't have any guns I haven't shot for 10 years. The one that gets the least range time stills gets some exercise every year. Other than that, I nail the list.
The guys in the gun shop would definitely email me if I didn't show up regularly.
My addition: You might be a gun nut if you plan your vacation dates so that you don't miss the local USPSA matches.
When someone asks if you own a gun and all you can do is smile and laugh, you might be a gun nut...
If the folks at the arms exchange see you walking in and say they have just the thing for you, you might be a gun nut
Further more if those same people know you by name you are a gun nut
Okay - so I've asked a co-worker, whose husband happens to be a cop, what type of gun he carries. She had to ask him, but the answer is "Glock".
If you scream at the TV about every breakage of the safety rules, you might be a gun nut.
If you know CMP is all backordered but you have staggered multiple ammo orders anyway...
If the FedEx guy doesn't ask "What's in this box, it's really heavy?"...
During the family photo op, if your wife's cousin puts her arm around your waist and "discovers" your carry but doesn't say anything...
Rick in NY, if ANY of those apply to you, you should be packing up those kids AND your wife and getting out to an Appleseed Shoot - we need you.
And I was about to call BS on this one - "If you've bought a magazine/holster/other random accessory for a gun you haven't fired in 10 years, you might be a gun nut." - because I don't HAVE any guns I haven't fired for 10 years. Got one that I haven't shot for a couple of years, and now that I've realized that, the 1858 Army is going to the range... hope the black powder is still good. But for 10 years?? No way. And I've owned guns for almost 30 years.
If you know CMP is all backordered but you have staggered multiple ammo orders anyway...
I guess I'm not the only one?
if you are driving long distance and you realize that out of habit, your trigger finger is extended along the support of the steering wheel instead of wrapped around the grip area like all of the other fingers...
then yeah, you spend too damn much time at the range
You buy ammo for a gun you don't have because you need an excuse to buy another gun.
You're watching a cowboy movie and have to point out the good guy is using an 1892 Winchester and the story is set in 1870.
When you subconsciously flick the safety off an imaginary pistol (or any similar action) every now and then.
When you're arranging your music collection on your computer and instead of typing "Rock" in the Genre section you accidentally type "Glock".
When you see a movie poster containing an attractive woman holding a gun, and the first things that go through your head are what kind of gun it is and her poor trigger discipline.
When you and your significant other are expecting a child and the first question you ask yourself is not what to call it or what raising a child will be like, but when and how you will teach them to shoot.
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