How many guns are enough?

[TitoFan]

This story was in the news last month about this old fella that died but had two tonnes of ammunition in his home and over a thousand guns.

Palisades Drive man found decomposing in his car had 1,200-gun arsenal | Daily Mail Online

Can someone confirm if there is limit on the amount of guns you can own in the USA?

Sick selfish laws.

Unfortunately there is no limit. It's wide open, so you can claim that you need four machine guns, five shotguns, half a dozen handguns, and two or three high-powered rifles to protect your home and your family. That being said, you can always try your luck and claim you need a rocket launcher and half a dozen hand grenades as well.

@TitoFan. Why should it matter to anybody else how many guns I own? It is not your business. If I use a gun to commit a crime, what crime could I possibly commit that is not already going to catch me an extra 20 years?
The simple fact of owning a lot of guns....if you and I went shooting with 15, 20 different guns, you would be a convert.

Who knows, grey.... I might.

Still, I think my objection is pretty much summed up below.

The more guns there are the more chance they could fall into the wrong hands.

Look at the Adam Lanza shooting spree. The guy pretty helped himself to an assortment of all sorts of guns owned by his mother, much like Arnold shopping for guns in that armory in that very old movie, "Commando". The woman, had she lived, should have been brought up on charges of major stupidity on at least two counts.

Having that many guns easily accessible in her home.
And two..... with a mentally unstable son like that, she should've never been allowed to have any guns in her house in the first place.

It was all too easy.

She had always conducted herself responsibly and legally. Who has ever had a child and thought "my baby is a lunatic that will someday murder me and go on a killing rampage"? And, if we agree that children should not pay for the sins of their parents, how do you justify restricting the rights of a parent based on what their child may or may not do at some future time?

Pleeease grey......

I take it you've never been a parent. Somehow I find it hard to believe that little Adam was a perfectly normal boy all his life, raised normally as all other children..... and somehow developed this mental instability and murderous rage that made him steal those guns.... kill her.... and wipe out an elementary school. And all this time the mother had no clue there "might be a problem".

You believe that.... and I've got some beachfront property in Nebraska I'd like to sell you.


That's the problem with the pro-gun crowd. Nothing is up for debate. It's all in.... take it or leave it.... my way or the highway. No second-guessing that maybe there's something wrong with this picture. Shit..... I didn't live with Adam Lanza and even I can tell from his picture that there were a few loose bolts in there.

[Beanflicker]

I didn't live with Adam Lanza and even I can tell from his picture that there were a few loose bolts in there.

I think I said this in the other thread, but they should make a rule that if you have a bowl cut, you can't buy a gun.

[TitoFan]

I didn't live with Adam Lanza and even I can tell from his picture that there were a few loose bolts in there.

I think I said this in the other thread, but they should make a rule that if you have a bowl cut, you can't buy a gun.

Not only that..... his hairdresser should get jail time.

[Beanflicker]

I didn't live with Adam Lanza and even I can tell from his picture that there were a few loose bolts in there.

I think I said this in the other thread, but they should make a rule that if you have a bowl cut, you can't buy a gun.

Not only that..... his hairdresser should get jail time.

That would probably be either him or his mother.

[TitoFan]

I didn't live with Adam Lanza and even I can tell from his picture that there were a few loose bolts in there.

I think I said this in the other thread, but they should make a rule that if you have a bowl cut, you can't buy a gun.

Not only that..... his hairdresser should get jail time.

That would probably be either him or his mother.

I like the rule, though. If you consciously subject yourself to having a cereal bowl placed over your head, and a pair of scissors to finish a one-minute haircut..... then go out into the street like that..... then no..... no guns for you, young man.