Does your wife know how many guns you own?

I was thinking today about a new rifle, I just recently bought one, I never did mention it to my wife nor do I have any intentions about letting her know about the next purchase. I know she has no idea how many I do own, they all do look a like and I have no idea how many I own, so it would be impossible for her to know.

Am I the only husband out there not sharing every detail with his wife when it comes to firearms? She knows I am always tinkering with something, she has never once asked if I am finished with it. It seems to me that if she were altering a dress at some point in time I would expect her to be finished.

My wife and I are very open with our finances. She doesn't care about the number of guns I have or purchase, so long as the purchases don't affect our financial goals.

She's knows what I buy and I know what she buys. I think that goes a long way with her being comfortable with how many guns I have.

I don't think that I know how many I have. I'm an FFL and mostly do custom orders. I don't stock much as inventory. When a customer asks for a specific gun, I may order two. One for me and one for the customer. Then I sell the extra as a used gun (full disclosure to the customer) if it ends up that I don't use it much or particularly care for it as much as I thought I would. What is my total personal count (in my personal safe and not the business safe) at any given time? I have no idea. They are all written down, but I'd have to count the active entires in the log book to know for sure.

My wife and I were at a meeting with our financial advisor. Something came up about me always buying guns. My financial advisor informed my wife that if you buy the right gun at the right price then it is an excellent investment. She doesn't say anything about me buying guns anymore! Yes, she knows how many guns that WE have.

Me and my girlfriend live together and have been for probably 5 or so years (so might as well be married). She does not really know how many I have (heck, I really don't) and does not really care. Same thing about buying new ones. As long as all the bills are paid and we are not going into debt, she does not care. She says most all of them look the same to her. There are only a few she knows specifically by make and model, mainly because they are extra fun or different (example: Desert Eagle). She does like shooting too, so that helps with new gun and ammo purchases. We also have separate bank accounts so purchases made by one does not effect the other.
She also knows how thrifty I am and how I scour everywhere for the best possible deal before I buy, sometimes saving myself hundreds. Then I show her how much I saved and she always says good job.

I don't hide them if that's what you're getting at.
Do you know/ask/care how many pairs of shoes your wife has? LOL

No did not mean hide. My wife has her own guns, she shoots and throws knives, can't make that up. The money aspect has never really been part of it for us. The excess might be though. How many pairs of shoes she owns, I have no idea, maybe an excessive amount.

I also recently bought one and never told my wife and also am not trying to hide it either. When I was younger I would buy but never sell any gun I had, I had several when we married 40 years ago and I bought a Remington pump because I wanted one and as she was a city girl I got her to go with me a few times. She enjoyed it so we bought her a 243 Remington auto and she has killed a bunch of deer with it and still is the only gun she wants to shoot. As I have gotten older and don"t hunt as much, I have sold a few I haven't shot in years and put the money in a gun fund. That is what I use now to buy barrels that I use in my 2 Axis, Stevens 200 sa and 111 la, she doesn't care if I buy parts to swap around but that usually comes out of the gun fund. The only gun I would have to talk to her about is the 243 that is hers. This is second marriage for both of us and we have always trusted each other when it comes to finances, she worked like I did and we retired at the same time so we spend a lot of time together - hard to hide things when you are together as much as we are.

My wife knows she carries one of my guns. She knows I have multiple in the safe. As for the number, she asked once and said she didn't even know what was in the safe. I told her it would just keep her awake at night....

Nope. The key is to get more than six so they become "all those" guns.

But she does have all my pistols on her unrestricted permit, and I hers. ;-)

2 words - hell no. And she could care less anyway...the bills get paid.

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Originally Posted by big honkin jeep

Do you know/ask/care how many pairs of shoes your wife has? LOL

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I am thinking around 1200.

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Originally Posted by Stumpkiller

Nope. The key is to get more than six so they become "all those" guns.

But she does have all my pistols on her unrestricted permit, and I hers. ;-)

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Wait, you have to list your pistols on your carry permit???

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Originally Posted by plasticweld

I know she has no idea how many I do own, they all do look a like and I have no idea how many I own, so it would be impossible for her to know.

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Except for a couple of pronoun substitutions, that accurately describes what I know about the number of purses my wife has.

I couldn't care less how many bags she has as long as it doesn't put us in the poor house, and she feels the same about my various hobbies. Now, I've got a good friend whose wife knows about between 15-20% of his firearms purchases. He has three safes, and she only goes into one of them, so she doesn't have a clue what's in the others. To be fair, they're a relatively happy growing family with no financial issues... but we routinely joke that she would be absolutely shocked if she had any clue how many guns he actually owns. He buys and sells so frequently that the volume is obscured by the flow.

I showed him this thread yesterday, and I told him that there's a series of questions he should ask his wife just for kicks:

"How many guns do you think I own?"

"How many guns do you think I should own?"

"How many guns do you think I want to own?"

Feel free to add others... :)

My wife encourages me. On a rainy day,"Why don't you go . down to your gun room and play?" often followed up by,"When was the last time you cleaned your gun room?"

We shoot together as a family. My kids both in their late 30s both are active shooters. My son Russ and his wife's version of date night is a trip to the range, I good date weekend a trip to an out of state gun range. Everyone has a concealed carry permit with the exception of my daughters husband. At Christmas this year it was show everyone your carry gun, even my 82 year old mother carries all the time. My wife and I gave ammunition for Christmas gifts this year.

The topic came to mind when I realized I never mentioned my last purchase. I told her I joined the forum and had an itch to work on something. I bought an Axis to mess with then, thought what I really needed a finished gun with more capability.

She's glad to see me playing with something again. When she goes shopping on the weekend I have no idea what she is shopping for, I just know she is happy when she is doing it.

In NY we have the same goofy system. I have my conceal carry permit which is filled and then an additional card that is full to. So I have to carry two cards. Some of her guns are on mine, none of mine are on hers, she does not want to carry two cards.

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Originally Posted by Sled

Wait, you have to list your pistols on your carry permit???

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Originally Posted by plasticweld

In NY we have the same goofy system. I have my conceal carry permit which is filled and then an additional card that is full to. So I have to carry two cards. Some of her guns are on mine, none of mine are on hers, she does not want to carry two cards.

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I feel for you guys that live in states like that. I had a KY State CDW permit for about 3 years after I retired, then GW signed the LEOSA Act, and now I just carry under that. When I qualify, I use the same gun (Beretta 92F) I carried on the PD, but when I carry it is always something else, usually a Sig P320 or S&W Bodyguard. (depending on how I'm dressed).
One of the directives I have given my friends, is if I die, they are to get over to the house immediately and make sure the wife doesn't sell my guitars and guns for what she thinks I paid for them...… lol

My wife just complains about stubbing her toe on the one's sticking out from under the bed. :rolleyes: I've got a gun case out in the garage I bought two months ago waiting to be stained so I can move it into the gun room. Just haven't gotten around to doing it yet. It's on my "to do" list.

No, when we married I had a FFL, a government job and no other vices, I bought a gun of some kind two or three a month sometimes more. That’s was one of the things we talked about before marriage so I’ll had a gun fund account up today.

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Originally Posted by Sled

Wait, you have to list your pistols on your carry permit???

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By make, caliber and serial number. Have to be on the carry (concealed) permit and also registered/updated every five years with the state police.

You do not want to be found with one on your person off your property with one not on your permit. Gov Cuomo sucks on the 2nd Amendment.

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Originally Posted by Stumpkiller

Gov Cuomo sucks on the 2nd Amendment.

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Just on the second amendment?

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Originally Posted by Stumpkiller

By make, caliber and serial number. Have to be on the carry (concealed) permit and also registered/updated every five years with the state police.

You do not want to be found with one on your person off your property with one not on your permit. Gov Cuomo sucks on the 2nd Amendment.

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Move somewhere between the coasts. Oklahoma just passed a Constitutional Carry law that takes effect November 2019. Carry whatever you want without a permit. There are several other states between the coasts that have the same law.

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Originally Posted by scootergisme

Move somewhere between the coasts. Oklahoma just passed a Constitutional Carry law that takes effect November 2019. Carry whatever you want without a permit. There are several other states between the coasts that have the same law.

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I used to tell people that all the time when they said they lived in California, NY, Illinois, etc., but then I realized, if all the gun owners move to places like Kentucky, Oklahoma, etc., then the gun grabber own those states in perpetuity. Better that freedom loving people stay and fight to elect better representation.

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Originally Posted by Sled

I used to tell people that all the time when they said they lived in California, NY, Illinois, etc., but then I realized, if all the gun owners move to places like Kentucky, Oklahoma, etc., then the gun grabber own those states in perpetuity. Better that freedom loving people stay and fight to elect better representation.

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Good point Sled! We all need to make sure that we are all active voters. Supporting the NRA helps as well.

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Originally Posted by scootergisme

Good point Sled! We all need to make sure that we are all active voters. Supporting the NRA helps as well.

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Yeah, sadly I dropped out of the NRA years ago when LaPierre pissed me off with his "Jack Booted Thugs" comments. I am joining again though, it really is the best organization fighting for our rights. And besides... Dana Loesch... Wow!!!:usa2:

The NRA is not perfect but when you compare them to Pelosi, Schumer or any name on the 2020 Dem president list, they really begin to shine.

If my wife knows how many guns I have I'm in deep trouble because I'm not married. lol

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Originally Posted by scootergisme

Move somewhere between the coasts. Oklahoma just passed a Constitutional Carry law that takes effect November 2019. Carry whatever you want without a permit. There are several other states between the coasts that have the same law.

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Our family history in NY goes back to 1644 after relocating from the VA Colony. I'm not moving because of current politics. We stay and fight.

Stumpkiller i feel for you folks in northern NY. My wife nephew lives in New York and from what I have seen and how they try to control you it’s bad. The south easterner part your state is sucking the blood from you all. When we went to visit him when he was living in Malone I was amazed at the homes and farms. Because if you fix your place up they will tax the heck out of you and the farmers also get hit..
Soil and water is another thing with them with on their laws. No field tiling because it will destroy the land and wild life.
Anyway where I live most of the county is building up with new homes for the people that work in or around Cincinnati, so to find a place to hunt is getting hard to find.

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/st...fILcpBPL02oS3s

New York continues to be one of the leading states in the country where people are moving out of.
According to United Van Lines, a St. Louis, Missouri-based moving company, New York ranked as the third most moved-out-of state in 2017, ahead of only Illinois and New Jersey. Despite the ranking, it is actually a continued improvement from previous recent years. New York ranked second in 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012, but remains in the top three states people are fleeing for the seventh year in a row.
During 2017, 61 percent of moves to and from the state were outbound, according to data gathered in the company's 41st Annual Movers Study. There are various reasons why people left.

• 46 percent of people left for job-related reasons
• 18 percent of people left for lifestyle reasons
• 19 percent of people left for family reasons
• 5 percent of people left for health reasons
• 29 percent of people left for retirement reasons

The largest age population of those who left were those aged 55 to 64. Those 65 or older ranked a close second, with those aged 18 to 34 not far behind. The largest income group of those who moved out made an annual $150,000 or more.

I'm surprised NY, NJ IL and CA haven't passed legislation to tax anyone moving out of the state based on their net worth yet.

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Originally Posted by J.Baker

I'm surprised NY, NJ IL and CA haven't passed legislation to tax anyone moving out of the state based on their net worth yet.

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I bet they're writing up that legislation as we type!

My fairly recent EX (2013) knew how many I had but I didn't even try to keep it a secret. Some of them were mine before we married, some were inherited and some purchased while we were married. She had her own pistol and her Dad's Winchester 30-30. She didn't even bring them up during the not-so-nice divorce but we never kept financial secrets.

I don’t think my wife cares how many guns I have as long as I’m not buying them on a credit card. She knows boys toys are expensive (it ain’t fair!). I try and make sure she gets the things she wants too.

She knows approximately how many. It is irrelevant to her, as it does not significantly negatively impact our lives or finances.

She doesn't ask, and I don't tell!

nope, they all look the same to her. That said, I did bring home a blue laminated airgun and she picked right up on that one.

I do brag to her all the time about how many guns I have and also the ones I still need. I think she knows

Probably. I'm not really sure. I work on a lot of guns for friends and family. So at any given time I may have a few extra that are not mine and she has never asked about any of them.

Yup she shakes her head now and then. Especially when it comes to 50 cals and suppressors lol. Every gun and suppressor is covered under insurance riders so she know exactly what they’re worth to. I picked a good one I guess!!

Mine supports the pairs of shoes to guns ratio. I got cute one time and counted individual guns as shoes. 15 pairs of shoes equals 30 guns. She was delighted to restore balance to the ratio.

My wife has bought me a couple of handguns ans a rifle,but she has no idea how many guns I have.:cool: