"How many TMP members are gun owners?" Topic

1. I own a hand gun
2. I own a rifle
3. I own both a hand gun and rifle
4. I own a few of each
5. If my house is ever raided, the news media will call it an "Arsenal"
6. I own no firearms of any type

7. Break into my house and find out.

BTW Hydra gets all the really cool guns. We can't shoot them very well, but they sure do look cool.

My house is the designated fallback point in the Zombie Apocalypse. I think it may actually be in the office manual.

8) Shotgun
9) Pellet Gun
10)BB Gun
11)Speargun

1., 3 x 2., 8., 9. and 12. Musket

2 – Old WW2 Arisaka

8)

Several of both types, a cannon, and a bunch of swords.

I own a "few" guns.

I own a few of each.

Definitely getting more when I can afford it. My favorite right now is my M1 Carbine. Want to pick up an SKS, AR-15, AK-47, and Browning Hi-power pistol. After that I'll get more selective…

My business owns lots of guns, some of them quite big!

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6. never will own a gun.

12: None of your business…

2) Replica long-land brown bess smoothbore

shotgun, rifle

3b) Both pellet pistol and pellet rifle.

My favorite right now is my M1 Carbine

I second that!!

Many, though all but two are replica black powder weapons for reenacting.

In 1800mm scale? None. Otherwise thousands.

Several and both my wife and myself are licensed for "conceal carry". And we do!

Dave

I have biceps.

13. I live in a country where getting a licence to own a gun is very difficult.

Used to own & occasionally use a bunch of long arms, was issued a pistol to carry & keep at home. Sold some, gave some away.

Professionally I can now access an ecclectic assortment of firearms from WW2 90mm mortars down to tiny pistols, including .50 Brownings, Spandaus, M1919's, bazookas…you know, stuff. And what we don't have we can pretty much make – the boss is patching up a 105mm howitzer in his 'spare' time and has made full sized blank firing artillery from scratch – the background guns firing in 'Thin Red Line' for example.

No guns (frowned upon here in the UK), but I do have a razor sharp wit and am planning a Death Ray installtion, something I call a "laser".

G.

Guns are illegal in the UK without a license (and licenses are difficult if not impossible to obtain).

no, and never fired one..or intend to either

14. Potato cannon. Every self respecting household should have it's own artillery piece.

I have a glue gun…

5 Won't elaborate beyond that!

7. When I lived in locations in which gun ownership was legal, I owned guns. Now that I don't…. I don't.

I've got a couple of nail guns does that count?

"and licenses are difficult if not impossible to obtain"

Not really, but you do need a good reason.

Anyway, my 'guns' are all BB guns or deacs. My re-enactor pals have real guns though – everything from flintlock pistols to K98s.

13 as cerdic , where on arsenal matter swords and knives count almost the same as fire arms when they whish to put you into trouble thus are included in the damn "arsenal" thingy .

Guns are illegal in the UK without a license (and licenses are difficult if not impossible to obtain).

same if not worse in france

Not really, but you do need a good reason.

hunting permit for guns …but well would be strange if tried as I'm vegetarian

otherwise if ever I get to live in a country where owning is legal I shall for sure ,as some french "mens in blacks" would certainly come around

None, grew up with the toubles in N.Ireland. was enough to put me off guns for life.

None. But I grew up happily using guns in the countryside.

If I ever moved to the country again I'd get a shotgun and set about the local rabbit population.

My farther once told me "that every home should have at least one gun for each adult and enough ammunition to make the second wave think twice before they try it again."

I consider that advice to be among the best he ever give me. So the answer you question is;

12: None of your business

Handguns, rifles, swords, knives/daggers.

Some of each. Need to reenforce.

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Doug

With the man of the House named Karl Joseph Walther, sone of Karl Joseph Walther, etc., what do you think?

Derek H,
I never needed a gun to stop people like you killing innocent rabbits!

Over the years, I often asked kids in my high school classes (in Chattanooga) how many guns were in their houses. (This was a fairly expensive private school.) Pretty consistently about 40% would say NONE, but the others would have at least several, and maybe 20% would have a dozen or more.

Multiple of #2. I own some knifes too.

I have served in the army (twice,techically in two different countries) .I like guns.I like the craftmanship put into it,the ingeneering.I am a big fun.
But,I would never posses a gun.Personal guns are for sissies.I do not need a gun.My hands are registred as weapons.Also,I live in Canada.

I grew up with guns, my parents lived on the edge of town with lots of open country around but I didn't have any for years after. When I bought an industrial building in the city I had several break-ins, one of which, when caught, turned out to be a recently released recidivist convicted of manslaughter for beating his stepson to death. I decided to buy a shotgun.

After that I just seemed to start accumulating them. I only bought one more for myself, a very high tech .22 rifle but people kept giving guns to me. My wife bought me a surprise present for Christmas, a Remington 700 with a Leopold scope. A fellow I did some sculpting work for gave me two M1911 Colt 45's (he knew I was a big fan of 'The Shadow') and my brother-in-law started picking up Webleys (he is in the North-South skirmish association and goes to a lot of gun shows) for me because I said I liked their peculiar character.

So now I've got a safe full of them.

None here. Wife is afraid that I would shoot the kids.

Intentionally.

4.

I had a 1-inch bore replica hand-gonne for a while, but I sold it when I moved. Now I rely on cold steel.

5 – Pretty sure that they would have a field day with it.

Including various historical pieces stretching back to the Civil War I have a slew of hunting rifles, hand guns, shotguns and guns which are just fun.

I do find the media's portrayal of guns somewhat funny. Growing up I was out hunting squirrel and rabbit with my 22 almost as soon as I could reach the trigger with the butt more or less on my shoulder. Later on, I would do some hunting on the way to school and kept a rifle and shotgun in my car (OMG – they would have fits to think that a 16 year old kid came to school with a high powered rifle and a shotgun).

In terms of using them, we get mountain lions and coyote with somewhat regular basis. A warning shot generally sends them scampering else where. We also live within eye shot of the Interstate so I get the occasional migratory meth head who decides it would be a good idea to spend the night in one of my barns. The boxers on leash with a 12 gauge in hand keeps them in place long enough for the sheriff to show up and haul them away.

"Several" pistols.

Used to be a '1' many, many years ago, now it's a '6'.