Not sure what is normal now days. i live buy this saying every day. Better to have & not need. Then to need and not have. And for the some out there that thinks we not normal we are just a different bread. We want to make sure we keep our family safe and protect the ones who can’t defend their self. And we buy ammo, guns, go to the range for practice.
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I’ve got more than I need…I feed an addiction to weapons of all types. Everything I buy now is because I just had to have them hand it to me at the gun store… shouldn’t have touched it…lol.
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Aaaannnd that is why I own a MK4, FNX.45 tactical, my Eotech optic, same with my Vortex razor!
touch, touch ooohhhh that’s nice…. 
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Guns will never be enough to feed that addiction. You’ll also need plenty of ammo. 
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Life is simpler (and much happier) when you understand that that dumb word “need” is easily substituted by “want”… 
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How does their .223 shoot?
I have had great luck with their .22lr!!!
It’s Smokey when you shoot it, so I figured it would muck up my guns in 50ish rounds…. But after hundreds through my 15-22 it was barely any worse than shooting CCI! And the accuracy is there too!
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It’s capable of MOA at 100. I love it. If you get them in thousand rounds cases they are cheap and loads of fun to shoot.
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Define “normal”. Today’s definition seems rather broad and very loose…
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That really describes my ex-wife.Broad and very loose…lmao.
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Back to the original post that we seem to have drifted from in December 2022:
“How many guns does a normal person have?”
“About five.”
“That sounds like a gun enthusiast to me.”
“No, a gun enthusiast has fifteen.”
“That sounds like someone obsessed with guns.”
“No, people obsessed with guns have hundreds.”
“That sounds like a psycho.”
“No, psychos seldom own guns, or maybe have one or two.”
“But that sounds like a normal person though.”
“No, a normal person has about five. We already covered that.”at a weekly wrap up with some co-workers before the Thanksgiving weekend, just shooting the breeze, when the subject of guns came up.
“I’m so glad Ron quit,” one woman said.
“I know,” said another colleague. “Did you know he has more than like 25 guns?!”
“Who needs more than one gun?” the first woman asked. “Who even needs A gun??”I’m just sitting there, looking at my gun database on my iPhone, counting my current inventory, and keeping my oh-I-so-want-to-tell-you mouth zipped shut, as I imagine their jaws dropping to the floor to learn that there’s a CCW right under their noses.
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That’s the crazy thing about this hobby, it’s a perfectly legitimate, legal, safe, fun hobby that tons of Americans engage in, but in so many places and circumstances, we basically have to keep it secret. No one has to keep it secret that he builds race cars, or fishes, but collect and shoot guns, and people you work with (or neighbors, etc) will think you’re some kind of psycho.
I’ve worked at the same place for about 10 years. Only within the last few years have I quietly found out that three co-workers are also gunners. Now we talk openly about range trips and shooting, but for a long time everyone stayed hush hush, to not concern other co-workers.
If more people in this country knew how big this hobby/lifestyle is, and how many normal, average Americans are going about their business exercising their 2A rights, it would take a lot of wind out of the Anti-gunner’s sails.
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My workplace today where nobody knows (or even has a hint of) my “hobby” is far far different than my workplace of 25+ years ago where I took my staff to a retreat to celebrate a major software release. We visited Coyote Valley Sporting Clays and shot skeet for several hours. Today, that would get me fired, and maybe worse.
Oh, how Silicon Valley has changed – and not for the better.
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