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Originally Posted by alwaysinboost
^^^ do you just like to collect guns like some people collect baseball cards or are you expecting to actually use some of those weapons to defend yourself if WWIII pops off?
Serious question because it looks like you have one hell of a stock pile of weapons, more then some 3rd world countries.
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...collect, well, trying. I'm more in to modern weaponry than the old WWII stuff (except I still need to pick up an M1a, practically unchanged throughout every variation in the past 50 years, and still widely used), and new guns rarely come out. It just amazes me how such a simple reaction is so complicated! This years to buy list was updated to FN FS2000, Bushmaser ACR (even though bushmaster is making it instead of magpul
), FN SCAR (do out 4th quarter of 08, expected 1st quarter 09), find a good deal on a slightly used or 2nd hand NIB SIG 556 (even though I passed on one already and sold it to my brother, I think they "feel" like junk, but they are smooth weapons), and one of the Steyr Aug copies, don't know which yet.
Some of the guns I have only have a hundred or so rounds through them, and others, I had my fun with and they were packed up along with ammo (for instance the PS90, it's in storage for good).
Not only do they interest me in the complex actions, but they are a great investment! Over the years, desirable guns have vastly outperformed the stock market. Plus, if God forbid the gov't decides to implicate another ban, at least I will have the chance to own them and keep them forever.
So collector (I wish I could be more of one!)/ investment purposes, plus just because I can. Trust me, my collection sucks compared to the majority out there! I was working at one of the executives of Wachovia in Villanova and no kidding, he had about 10,000 guns, worth well over a million dollars. Another collector is a big time commercial builder in the area and has a 2000 sq/ft HIDDEN BANK VAULT (the entire wall slides out to reveal a true bank vault door) in his basement, with about a million in guns. Someone with 1 F/A (NFA) gun can have as much in to the gun as I do my entire collection...often LOTS more. I wish I was rich!