Does your wife know how many guns you own?

[plasticweld]

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.

[Apollo117]

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.

[Frontier Gear]

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.

[scootergisme]

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.

[JeepsAndGuns]

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.

[big honkin jeep]

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

[plasticweld]

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.

[Wayne Nixon]

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.

[Robinhood]

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

I am thinking around 1200.

[DeltaNu1142]

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.

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... :)

[plasticweld]

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.