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Hortensis

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42. We have old friends in California who collect butter churns and guns.

Thu Jul 7, 2022, 04:23 PM

Jul 2022

The guns started first with him, a very outdoorsy, mechanically minded sort. They were a typical couple with no interests in common beyond their lives and children together, so everyone who knew them was immensely tickled when they developed a passion together for searching out and acquiring antique butter churns. He still does guns, but the scope is mostly limited to those at least somewhat related to his hobby of competitive distance shooting.

Even if hanging a sunburst of polished rifles that are almost never used over a sideboard filled with butter churns sounds incredibly pointless, and even more so the much bigger display that covers the walls of the den, it's not to them. They do it for the dusting.

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Like Many Other DUers, I Have Relatives Who Are Right-Wingers [View all] MineralMan Jul 2022 OP

Gun hoarders. CrispyQ Jul 2022 #1

Indeed! LOL! MineralMan Jul 2022 #7

The photo was taken by a European photographer who travelled around the USA CrispyQ Jul 2022 #13

Fascinating! MineralMan Jul 2022 #16

A $20 per gun yearly tax feels pretty rad about now for some reason, I can't put my trigger on it? Brainfodder Jul 2022 #41

If they are all loaded, they are threat multipliers Moostache Jul 2022 #2

Not really. If you are in a fixed location, MineralMan Jul 2022 #8

Also,... ProfessorGAC Jul 2022 #39

K&R, I can understand shotguns for sport shooting but not PGRs (pistol grip rifles) !!! uponit7771 Jul 2022 #3

Well, depends what sort of "sport" shooting you're doing, really. MineralMan Jul 2022 #9

We have television shows showing interventions of hoarders CrispyQ Jul 2022 #4

Yeah, well, gun hoarders don't really want a crew MineralMan Jul 2022 #11

Well, I'm no fan of guns, but ... Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2022 #5

Yes, those awful mass guitar murders kcr Jul 2022 #10

Hmm...that sounds like a good excuse, rather than a reason. MineralMan Jul 2022 #12

I've Got 13 Guitars ProfessorGAC Jul 2022 #40

To me this is good reason to make guns really friggin expensive Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2022 #43

Excellent Idea! MineralMan Jul 2022 #46

Collecting guitars isn't quite the same as collecting guns, though. Ocelot II Jul 2022 #38

Again, I'm no gun fan in any way, I've never owned one, but I know people who do Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2022 #44

But just think how *manly* you'd look if you carried an AR-15, finger on the trigger, Ocelot II Jul 2022 #6

I don't know. I have a full beard, which is ample evidence MineralMan Jul 2022 #15

But the combination of the beard *and* all those guns! OMG! Ocelot II Jul 2022 #45

Its an idol. milestogo Jul 2022 #14

BiL is a huge collector Amishman Jul 2022 #17

Yes. Well, my question for your BiL would be the same. MineralMan Jul 2022 #18

I once saw Rambo shoot two machine guns at once. Qutzupalotl Jul 2022 #19

Point and shoot. Works for cameras, but not so well MineralMan Jul 2022 #21

Collecting is a hobby. maxsolomon Jul 2022 #20

Well, I think he's going to have a lifetime to contemplate MineralMan Jul 2022 #22

I Don't Think RobinA Jul 2022 #23

Oh, I understand the mindset just fine. MineralMan Jul 2022 #24

They all think they are Burt Gummer... Wounded Bear Jul 2022 #25

I had to look that up. MineralMan Jul 2022 #26

Right down to the "I'm the good guy with a gun(s) who's gonna save the world"... Wounded Bear Jul 2022 #30

I never saw any of those movies. MineralMan Jul 2022 #31

If you're talking about Burt Gummer, he's in Tremors... Wounded Bear Jul 2022 #36

Yeah, I learned that when I looked up the name. MineralMan Jul 2022 #37

As investments in the resale market? mainer Jul 2022 #27

Hmm...maybe. MineralMan Jul 2022 #28

It's a sickness... slightlv Jul 2022 #29

Well, it's more a symptom of something than an illness itself. MineralMan Jul 2022 #32

You know, MineralMan, of course, slightlv Jul 2022 #35

The way it was explained to me here on DU is this... Midnight Writer Jul 2022 #33

Well, I have lots and lots of wrenches. MineralMan Jul 2022 #34

We have old friends in California who collect butter churns and guns. Hortensis Jul 2022 #42