Silly question, but I'm curious. How many guns does an owner need to have for it to be considered a "collection"?
Posted by High_Af_Osrs@reddit | Firearms | View on Reddit | 38 comments
In your opinion does a "collection" need to have a theme, era, or specific platform?
ILikeScrapple@reddit
How many do you need to be considered an arsenal?
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
Unless you're a Government entity you don't have an arsenal.
ILikeScrapple@reddit
Or a liberal newspaper is reporting on someone’s collection.
dooshlaroosh@reddit
I know you’re kidding but that has become a very loaded term used by anti-gunners to describe any number of guns & pretty much any amount of ammo more than one box 😵
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
A 10/22 and a Ruger MK IV along with a brick of .22 LR would be an arsenal to some people. To me, it's a fun afternoon.
If I bring the dedicated .22 LR AR with the Super Safety it's around an hour of fun.
OG_Fe_Jefe@reddit
Unless you're counting them by crate or weight, it's NOT an arsenal....
OG_Fe_Jefe@reddit
A collection is simply defined as n=Age /5*9.
You must subtract two for each duplicate of variants, ... unless you have ALL the variants, then you may count n+3 for the sub-collection.
Only buy, no sell.... gifting is OK... so is for upgrading same arm for better grade.
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
Is it OK if I surpass that formula by a lot?
OG_Fe_Jefe@reddit
Yes... most collectors have...
bassjam1@reddit
Minimum of 2. Having just one means you have a collectable item, but adding a second can turn it into a collection.
That being said, all collections are 2 or more, but not every instance of having more than one gun is a collection. Meaning, if every firearm you have has a useful purpose as a tool, those aren't collectable items.
DNCOrGoFuckYourself@reddit
I would say 5 of the same platform, theme or era.
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
It can start with two, as long as you intend to get more.
My eight Daggers should be considered a collection of Daggers.
DNCOrGoFuckYourself@reddit
Yeah that’s all one specific thing.
Like me, I have guns of no specific platform but more retro.
CAR-15 on an A2 upper, CZ-75BD, SKS, 1911 (this one is hitting race gun territory), almost all parts matching Tantal, 590 Retrograde. The Retrograde & CAR both rocking “retro” (late 80s - early 00’s lights and optic). So I’d consider that a Retro collection, but you and your 8 Daggers would fit a Dagger collection.
Side note, they any good? I’m pondering on buying one next time some frames come on sale, I hate the frame cuts though. Would they pair well with magwells?
PrometheusSmith@reddit
A "collection" is not a handful of random Glock clones or 'customized' Glocks and a few rifles with a cheap shotgun.
A collection is part or all of what you own, but with some common theme. I'm starting to collect US Milsurp, so the Garands, M1 Carbine, 1903, and 1917 rifles are that collection. My weird collection is dumb single stack pistols, like the Benelli B76, HK P9s, HK PSP, and SIG P239.
Just throwing whatever you own onto your bed and calling it a "collection" is what people do to justify hoarding dumb guns, or justify buying 17 striker fired, polymer pistols, or just buying whatever cheap guns they can find so they can justify it to random strangers on the internet.
When I go to a gun shop and look through the used pistols, I'm looking for things that would fit in that "dumb single stack, 9mm pistols that were unique or considered to be "futuristic" when they came out." I'm not just saving a little money and buying whatever I can afford as often as I can.
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
I don't go to the LGS. I have a Gunbroker addiction.
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
Putting all your guns on the bed or floor, taking a picture, posting the picture, and calling it a collection is a sign of someone one who's so mentally weak they need the affirmation of random strangers to feel good.
I don't give a fuck how many guns you own at whatever age. If you haven't put the maximum into your Roth, have a years salary in savings, and are buying on credit then you're a fucking shortsighted fool.
I broke my back in the Marines. I always knew that some day that injury was going to radically change my life. So I made sure I was prepared.
That time came earlier than I thought. A couple months before my 52nd birthday. I had a job I loved. City Letter Carrier, I'd been on the same walking route for 15 years. Loved the job, loved my customers. But my back decided that I'd no longer be able to do that or really any other job.
I applied for a medical retirement from the USPS, it took over a year for that to be approved and money to start coming in. I also, as part of that, had to apply for Social Security Disability. I was approved for that 13 days after I hit submit on the application, but there's a six month waiting period before they pay. That mean 8 actual months before payments started.
It took 14 months for the increase in my VA money to start.
We had enough money in savings to allow up to live during that time. We had intended to move out of Oregon the next spring. But in January we found I had an advanced prostate cancer. That delayed our move for a year.
In 2014 we moved to Texas. One of the best decisions of my life. Both vehicles were paid for in cash, the boat was paid for in cash, the building for the truck and the boat, a 60x30x15 metal building, was paid for in cash.
I'd always been interested in guns. But I had a budget. When we moved I owned 31 firearms. I've added over 10 per year for every year we've been in Texas.
I have more money coming in now than when I was working.
I've never had to sell a gun to make the rent/house payment. Never had to get a title loan to make rent/house payments.
None of us can predict the future. But we can prepare for it. Having a bed full of cheap guns at 18 and no money in the bank is fucking stupid.
Unlikely_sniper@reddit
I have 60+. I believe I'm past "collection" and now considered a hoarder
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
Those are rookie numbers.
Add a one to the front of that and you're close to me.
I picked up four new handguns last Saturday, and I ordered three more this week.
I believe that makes 11 so far this year.
sirbassist83@reddit
Idk, probably at least 2
OG_Fe_Jefe@reddit
Minimum is not a collection, it is the sign of having more than just a man card.
It should conduits of one of each type of arm:
1 shotgun, ie: scatter gun 1 rifle, ie: long gun 1 pistol, either wheelgun or Browning. (hbhHn) 1 PCC; for neither fowl nor fish... ....
This is the Minimum.
Just like minimum work days of the week.
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
Work....what's that?
UnrepentantBoomer@reddit
However many you can stash on your boat
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
Oh Christ, my boat has a metric shit ton of storage space. 24' Sportsman Master 247. You'd be up to the gunnels before you filled all that storage space with firearms.
High_Af_Osrs@reddit (OP)
Which unfortunately sank in an accident. 😔
Ornery_Secretary_850@reddit
A collection follows a theme. I have a collection of Ruger MK II pistols, around 12 of them.
That's a small part of the overall conglomeration or accumulation of firearms I own.
ARMilesPro@reddit
I have my reasons.
EBK357@reddit
Two is a small collection, I'd say.
So, yeah, two.
walmarttshirt@reddit
It’s the start of a collection.
OG_Fe_Jefe@reddit
Two is either a pair or a brace, not a collection.... but a simple start.
BoseSounddock@reddit
2
CALLTangoOscarMike@reddit
One more from the same kind of weapon that you can shoot. So two.
Sad-Wave-4579@reddit
Two’s a pair but three’s a crowd
Agammamon@reddit
That is up to you.
One is still a collection.
CodenameDinkleburg@reddit
I’m just reminded of the Unsubscribe podcast story about the “mannequin”. TLDR some lady decided to start collecting them after she “found one” on the street in the snow, turns out it was a frozen dead addict. I won’t elaborate further, watch it for yourself but not if you’re easily unsettled. Point is, a collection starts at 1 with the intention of gaining more
Substantial_Rich_946@reddit
Just one more.
ImCaffeinated_Chris@reddit
Collection = n+1
n being the current number of guns you own.
High_Af_Osrs@reddit (OP)
And then the one after that!
Pox_Americana@reddit
Intent to process, maintain, or continue to expand— and even those criteria can be very different from one another.
The themes are how you get multiple collections ie WWI, WWII, family heirlooms, etc.