How many of you are closet gun owners?

[45th Med]

Enquiring Minds want to know.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. I absolutely refuse to let my closet have any guns.

I mean the thing knows where I sleep.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. But seriously, I have owned more guns than I can remember

over the years.
All gone now. Even though I am highly trained in their use, my kids are not.
I rate the chances of needing a gun much less than the chances of a gun being used improperly by one of my children even though I am training them about leaving them alone. I could never live if something like that happened to one of my girls.

And besides, if I ever do need a gun, I will just go take one from the nearest idiot with one.

[alwynsw]

29. Do what I did

Buy a safe(s)

on edit: To answer the question, let's just say that they number in the dozens. Not a single illegal one in the bunch, either!

[Booberdawg]

2. I have no use for a gun

[BiggJawn]

3. Me neither.

But then, I hope I never have any use for my car insurance or catastrophic health coverage, either...

[rwheeler31]

7. I have to go to Houston next week.

I still have not bought a gun, I am worried about their food and water

[KCDem]

10. um, where are you coming from that you're so afraid of Houston?

Sheesh, that's a pretty scary attitude you've got. It's perfectly safe down here. It's not exactly a 3rd world country, you know.

[Kamika]

67. if you go out in downtown at night

You should really have a gun. You don't need one if you will only spend time in the suburbs etc though.

And you buy water here

[Wcross]

4. I am out of the "closet"

I own over 10 firearms, I am not ashamed of it at all. I own pistols, shotguns and rifles. I even own a couple of those "evil" assualt rifles. Last time I checked, you don't have to give up self defense in order to be a good Democrat. To keep gun ownership in the "closet" shows a real lack of charactor.

[short bus president]

9. "you don't have to give up self defense in order to be a good Democrat"

Right the f*ck on! And you don't have to give up the fun of target shooting to be a good left-leaning unaffiliated voter, either.

[rwheeler31]

15. I do not want the gun thing

We thought we were giving a a young child a wourld view just giving parents a vacation.

[45th Med]

28. AMEN TO THAT!

Before today my only civilian means of personal defense was a Louisville Slugger and the kitchen knife block. When I come to think about it, it is probably more humane to shoot an assailent than beat them to death with a baseball bat or stab them......too much mess! Too much trauma!

[Zuni]

46. here here

I LOVE shooting guns. I go to the range all the time to get some stress off. I will still vote democrat, but I still believe in the right to own a firearm for law abiding citizens.

[Kamika]

68. yes Amen

Right to self defence is a right every human on earth should have. Most of Europe is deprived of that right

[GregW]

5. Own 'em ... don't keep 'em in the closet

They're locked in a safe.

[CoNnOc]

6. I have a 22 never use it...

Dad bought it for me.

[johnnie]

8. Used to..

I used to own a few....one of my inner conflictions in life. But they are all gone...I still have my Love gun from the Kiss love gun album though..does that count?

[sendero]

11. I own...

... a shotgun (12 gauge), a .22 rifle, a Glock .40 (you do not want to get hit by this thing) and a little .25 auto.

I used to be a "gun hater" but I got in touch with my masculine side and I enjoy shooting. I keep my guns in a locked cabinet, since I have 3 boys.

My intention is to buy a new gun every year. But I might have to skip this year, recession and all ya know :)

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. nope

I don't even like toy guns. :D

[izzie]

13. I think every one I knew has a gun but me.

They are pretty much in the back ground and hardly ever talk about them.

[Ready4Change]

14. What? Do Closet guns have really short barrels or something?

I mean, they probably don't have to be very accurate to shoot that far, and a long barrel would just get in the way. But it's sounds kinda pointless. I mean, how many gunfights occur in closets, anyway?

[rwheeler31]

21. I think I am afraid of Texas

we have to go for my job reasons.

[incontrovertible]

62. um, you'll be fine

Don't go breaking into people's homes when they're there, and chances are you won't be getting shot. I've lived here my entire life and never so much as seen a gun get pulled in public, except by a cop. Texas is not Sierra Leone, for God's sake.

[dweller]

23. Derringer

for tux attacks?

dp

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. Doesn't this belong in the gun dungeon???

:shrug:

[short bus president]

20. none of the gun owners in the gun dungeon are closeted.

[alwynsw]

31. Nah

It's just a question. And who wants to be harrangued by that evil toad that roams the dungeon, ready to lash out at anyone who either owns firearms or is sympathetic to firearms owners?

[Zuni]

49. I agree

I get really sick of the self ordained priests of progressivism that thrust their morals on to me. They really annoy me after a while

[dani]

18. I have a 9mm handgun

I'm not closeted about it, but it has remained locked in the closet (in a lock box) for over a year now.

[Lefta Dissenter]

19. HAHA, I HATE guns,

and we had lived in this house for 15 years before discovering that a gun had been hidden on top of a duct in the basement the entire time! We called the sheriff's dept, just to make sure it wasn't from some murder years ago, or something, but then after they checked it out, they said we could keep it. Oh yippee. What the hell were WE going to do with it? My husband had gotten rid of his hunting rifles the first year we met (OK, did I mention I hate guns?), and now we have this over/under whatever it is kind of gun that shoots two different kinds of bullets, I guess.

OK, we have a pellet gun and a bb gun, too, but I don't think those count.

So, yes, I'm a closet gun owner... or at least a ducted gun owner.

AND I HAVE SEVERAL CANISTERS OF PEPPER SPRAY, SO LOOK OUT!!!

[salin]

22. closet gun... is that like a staple gun, or a glue gun?

(or some other innocuous household noun-gun) ;-)

[rwheeler31]

26. Thanks

nt

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

24. Not me. I do own one, but it's in a safe deposit box at the bank.

Belonged to my Great Grandfather who was a "for-real" cowboy. He actually knew the James boys. I consider it an artifact rather than a gun. Part of my retirement.

However, in keeping with the 2nd amendment, I do have a thermonuclear device in my basement and an ICBM in my back yard. Everything's connected to a dead man's switch implanted under my armpit which will connect if my pulse stops.

By the way, there are lots of for sale signs around my house.

[Syrinx]

25. I don't currently own one

But I liberally interpret the 2nd amendment to mean that I can legally own one, if I so decide (again).

[45th Med]

27. I grew up around all kinds of weapons......

My dad was Army. We lived on Army bases all my life and I did 5 years active duty in the Army.....had my own M16 and M9 and had to depend on them to defend myself as a part of a deployed unit in a war zone. I was part of a Combat Aviation Brigade, attack helicopters and all kinds of crazy stuff. I've been shot at and I can say with personal experience.....I didn't like it at all. Still traumatized by it, actually. When I've gone to the range with my father, I'm really very sensitive to what other's are doing around me and last time I was there....someone swept me with their muzzle and I got deeply offended and gave this podunk hick a real dressing down.

My dad bought me a Beretta when I graduated High School but I never have had it in my possession until today. I've always enjoyed target shooting with my father, it's something we've done together as a bonding activity. We never did the football throwing thing or any other activity. It was something he enjoyed and he has a collection of over 15 guns, AR15's, shotguns, semi-auto pistols, revolvers....ect. I kind of always figured he would pass them down to me, I didn't think it would be this soon. Today while I was visiting, he wanted to give me his collection....he says the collective value is around $15k. I have no need for all these firearms, I'm happy with the one I have. It is the same kind I was issued in the Army and I know how to use it and maintain it. SO.....I declined for now. He has a big safe that he wanted to give me too......too much responsibility for me to keep these things around my house. I live alone but still....you know what I mean.

So.....I was just gauging how you all feel about this subject. I just got back from his house and brought my Beretta home with me. I guess I still feel obligated to the oath I took to do no harm.....I might give it back for him to keep in the safe.

[dweller]

30. Ithaca 20 ga. pump, short barrel

given to me by my father to learn to hunt, and yep, it's in the closet. Shells are in a different hidden location that only i know about. I take it out and oil it yearly and hide it back in the closet.

Excellant bird gun, wide spread shot pattern. I learned to hunt birds with it in my youth, was a great bonding experience with my dad. We ate some really fine dove and quail meals together from our take.
I used it to shoot rail at the coast in the swamp with my uncle, and won a turkey with it at the fair when i was 14. I shot a target, not a turkey, but won the frozen turkey competing against several adults. My dad talked about that for many days.

I own 2 pet cockatiels now, and put out seed for wild birds on a regular basis. Have no regrets, and would bring down a meal of game bird if i had to, but never shoot a living thing just for a sport any longer.

I feel a minor sense of security knowing it's there, but could just as easily disarm it and keep it for the sentimental value alone. Reminds me of my youth, and reading of Crockett, Boone and Kit Carson and the wilderness that was once this country.

Now tho, i guess you would need a tank,
dp

[henslee]

32. I got springfield rifle from the 1840's (?) that my granpa gave me.

I've had it since I was 6.

[Zuni]

51. Now that is worth money

A civil war collecter might be interested in Springfields from that era, which were widely used by both sides.

[hussar]

33. I own a 9mm semi automatic pistol

I am not in a closet

I am ex British army and fully trained in range safety

I enjoy target shooting

If the shit hits the fan I will be ready

[45th Med]

34. My dad has several FAL's......

He builds these things himself. Built a replica British Inch Pattern L1A1, has an L2A1....one of those Aussie Squad Automatic Weapon FAL's with the bipod.

He has a Springfield Armory IMBEL SAR4800 .223/5.56mm FAL.

A German G1 replica and an Imbel FAL.

I LOVE HIS FAL'S! I love the FAL more than the M16/AR15! It's truly a classic! I always pick a FAL to take to the range with us when we go.

[alwynsw]

36. OT

Hiya! I've been off a bit. IM me if you'd care to.

[45th Med]

37. In fact, here is a picture of one of his FAL's.....my fave....the 5.56mm

[hussar]

40. 7.62 is the way to go dude

If you read the book "Black Hawk down" you would know that the 5.56 round was not putting the "target" down, took 2-3 rounds but they were drugged up.

[45th Med]

43. I've seen damage done by both.....

I was a medic, you see. Both are bad news. I was shot at in Croatia. Our foot patrol caught a couple of Serbs planting mines in a field....shot at us and all I had to defend myself was an M9 Beretta 9mm. The other boys put down a fearsome amount of fire, unlike anything I've ever heard or seen in my life. Bad guys got away.

We'd have kids and civvies come into our hospital everyday with legs blown off by mines, gunshot wounds, all kinds of stuff.

[hussar]

53. Me posing with Browning 9mm

This was in 1979 many many years ago

http://www.villagephotos.com/image.asp?id_=6817877&sessionkey=

[Zuni]

50. It depends

7.62 NATO makes a clean wound, slicing through the body. It has a lot of stopping power behind it. The 5.56 does not have the same punch, but the light caliber bullet twists when it hits solids, causing worse wounds.
The 5.56 is effective for stopping people at less than 400 yards. Beyond thet 7.62 is far more effective

[Zuni]

48. NICE! That is a CAL, not an FAL if I am not mistaken

But it is a damn fine looking rifle if I have ever seen one.

[45th Med]

52. It's the Brazilian MD3.....

Imported by Springfield before the AW Ban. SAR-4800 5.56mm MD3. NATO STANAG M16 Mag adapter. Takes standard USGI M16 magazines. You should see my dad's semi-auto BAR.....made by Ohio Ordnance.

[Zuni]

55. Have you ever seen the Belgian BARs?

They have a pistol grip and a different shaped butt. I know someone on the eastern shore (Maryland) who has one. A real beastie it is, but nice lookin.

[Zuni]

57. BTW---I like

how he used woof on his FAL rather than plastic. I like the classier look with the wood grips and stocks.

[kodi]

35. not in the closet, i have cwp

9mm sig, sweet as a honey bee.

[Mountainman]

38. I own a gun but it's in my bedside drawer not the closet

I keep the ammo in another room in a cupboard so it isn't loaded ever only when I go target shooting.

[Endangered Specie]

39. For self defense...

I have a 10lb lockbox under my bed, loaded with about 10lbs of stuff. I guarentee that with my arm length I could knock someone clean out with it.

Also a nice collection of kitchen knives.

If you are going to take someone out, more manly to do it up and personal.

[45th Med]

44. No pun intended but.....

I'm just not cut out for that kind of thing. I'd hate to go out that way, myself.

[Zuni]

56. also more gruesome

I couldn't kill with a knife. Just too personal. If I had too, I could use a gun but doubt I could stab someone.

[scarlet_owl]

41. I refuse to have a gun in my house.

As someone who has had a gun pointed in her face and made to beg for her life, I don't like the vibes that they give off. My house is a house of peace. The worst I have is my f.i.l.'s machete from Vietnam, and that kind of creeps me out, although he only used it to cut vegetation.

[annagull]

42. Dad insists I have one--Mom actually shot someone

When I was growing up. Dad was out of town, basically guy tried to break in, had opened the kitchen door. Mom warned him to go away, she had a gun. he kept coming, so she shot. He was wounded, police came, ended up the guy was wanted in 2 states for rape and murder. Ever since, Dad insists I have a gun.

[Zuni]

45. Right here

but quite open about it.

[caledesi]

47. No guns here. nt

[NickB79]

54. Currently 3 of them

A CZ 452 in .22LR (great squirrel and rabbit rifle), a CZ 527 in .223 Rem (good coyote/woodchuck varmint gun) and a Ruger 10/22 in .22LR (nice semi-auto when you want to shoot fast). Currently saving up for a handgun, leaning towards a Beretta NEOS in .22LR for a plinker/target gun. I'd also like to pick up something in 7.62x39 sometime in the future, maybe an AK clone or Saiga semi-auto for plinking and short-range deer hunting. Basically well-built but economically-priced guns that shoot cheap ammo so you can shoot a long time. I used to have a Rem 870 12-gauge pump shotgun and a Ruger 77/22 in .22 Win. Mag, but sold them to buy college textbooks. I grew up with guns on the farm, and love just plinking at cans and dirt clods in the field at the farm.

[Ellen Forradalom]

58. Not me.

It is not a good option for me. Small child, urban environment, mood disorder. Bad idea all around.

[incontrovertible]

59. Two firearms.

1) Winchester defender pump-action 12-guage loaded with five shells of 00 buckshot. Someone's breaking in, this is what I go for. It's in my closet, but will be mounted in a hidden panel in the wall beside my bed as soon as I'm able to construct this.

2) .357 magnum Smith & Wesson revolver, loaded with two jacketed .38 rounds and three hollow-point .357 rounds. Loaded to alternate - jacket, hollow, jacket, hollow, hollow. Jacket punches a hole, hollow blows it open. This is what my wife will use at point-blank range if I'm gunned down in the living room (unlikely, considering a firefight between some meth'd-up scumback with a .22 vs. a 12-gauge Earth Destroyer).

I have personally known two women who were raped, tortured and murdered in their homes. 911 will not save you - competent predators cut your phone lines, and good luck finding your cel when there's a 200 pound maniac sprinting towards you at full speed.

I will always own these two firearms. It does not matter to me what children find their parents unlocked guns, or what criminal type sells what pistol from Virginia on the streets of New York. I am entitled not to spend the final moments of my life dying from a knife wound to the liver while my wife is raped and murdered in front of me. Sorry.

[Frangible]

60. Closet? Heck, I CCW!

<-- gun nut and proud of it!

I'm an abomination of nature; a liberal gun nut. Oh nos, teh horror.

[solinvictus]

61. Guns

A 12 gauge bolt action with the polychoke set to open, a Tokarev 7.62 X 25 mm pistol, and a CZ70 .32ACP. My short list of upcoming purchases is going to be filled once I get my Curio and Relic approved. It'll include:
1) A nice Mosin Nagant M91/30 which I'll scope with a new Byelorussian P/U scope.
2) A Yugo SKS and 98K.
3) A CZ52 pistol.
Cases of ammunition and spare parts for each.

In addition, I'm getting a Winchester pump 12 gauge, a S&W .38 revolver, and a Marlin Model 60 .22 rifle. That will do it for my collection all for under $700.

[Piperay]

63. Have about a dozen guns

of all types, rifles, hand guns etc. etc. I HATE guns but I inherited them from various relatives and with the neo-cons running around maybe it isn't so bad to have em to protect my liberties (what few are going to be left after Asscrap). :shrug: :evilgrin:

[VOX]

64. Used to have a cache for many years, but they served no purpose...

And their very presence was an invitation to all kinds of grief and mischief.

For many reasons, am much better off without hardware around the house.

[Don_G]

65. I Have Three

A .45 ACP Colt Pistol, 7mm Remington Magnum Rifle and an antique LeFever 12-Ga Double-Barrelled Shotgun.

I'm not a gun nut by any means but I grew up with firearms, hunt a little and these serve my needs adequately.

[Kamika]

66. Always been out of the closet here, family has 7 guns

My parents became gun nuts when they came here.. We've always had a rifle behind every bedroom door(4) and the bathroom door.

My dad, mom and sis has a pistol each

And my freeper cousin bought me a small pistol when I was 18. He is pretty cool even though he's a freeper.

On top of that I have pepper spray.

I love guns, they make me feel safe and I don't go around shooting ppl that shouldn't get shot. (well didn't shoot anyone yet)