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Do you own any firearms?
Oh, I'm in good shape!
Nice! I was wondering what you have and your opinions on what you own.
It's stupid how fast a gun collection grows on you.
I started out never thinking I'd own a gun, but then my neighborhood hit a sharp decline. :( Lots of drug dealers with pit bulls running loose, it didn't feel safe. More of a pit bull problem than a drug dealer problem.
So I bought my first gun, Beretta 92fs, 9mm, got proficient with it, and felt better for having it in the house. This was, oh, '98? '99 now?
Roll forward a few years, my grandfather passes away, leaves his guns to my dad. My dad has a massive heart attack and passes away, leaves that collection to me.
So the first thing I did was get grand dad's Remington 721 .30-06 bolt action cleaned up and made safe. Problem was it had a defect in the trigger and could just "go off". Armorer fixed that.
Then I'm looking at what dad had collected. He had this little .22LR Hi Standard Derringer, which was cute but useless.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Standard_Derringer
And I'm like "OK, I like the IDEA, but I can do better..."
So I bought a Bond Arms Ranger II for myself that shoots .45 and .410 shotgun shells.
https://www.bondarms.com/bond-arms-handguns/ranger-ii/
The Ranger II has the opposite problem of the High Standard... it's a BRICK. Not really decent for concealed carry.
After I had MY heart attack, and decided that I needed to start carrying concealed, I got my permit and picked up a .380 that just DISAPPEARS when I'm carrying. You'd never know it was there, which should be the whole point of concealed carry.
https://ruger.com/products/lcp/models.html
But then THAT got me thinking, "Wait... let's do an inventory here..." All these guns from dad and grandad and no shotgun?
So picked up a Mossberg Shockwave to fill that gap.
So, yeah, all told, between dad's guns, grand dad's guns, and my guns, I've ended up with something like 13 or 14 of them? Pistols, rifles, competition target pistols, semi auto, bolt action, lever action, breach loaders... it's all covered.
That's a nice collection!
Do you recommend .30-06 semi-auto rifles like the ones built similar to the AR-10 receivers or should I stick to buying a bolt action one?
I don't know that .30-06 is really a good semi-auto round. All the semi-auto rifles I've shot are the .556 / .223 AR rounds.
Though I've heard good things about .300 Blackout, .308, .350 Legend and .360 Buckhammer. I think I'd be leery of getting any semi automatic at this point given how there's potential legislation on them... unless your PLAN is to be part of a legal action, then it's all good. ;)
What legislation on semi-auto?
Varies state by state, but Biden is angling for a Federal Assault Weapon Ban like what we had from 1994 to 2004, and given the assassination attempt, there may be a good chance it gets done this time.
It sounds like you are encouraging me to buy semi-auto before FFLs are hypothetically no longer allowed to sell them; they can't force purchases competed after a law is passed suddenly make everyone a felon.
I have a disability that makes using my hands that the motion a bolt action forces you to do very difficult, so I'll go out and look for good semi-auto rifles to buy. Which is too bad because I love some of the beautiful wooden furniture some hunting rifles have.
Lever action for me, but whatever floats your boat! :)
Holy crap that thing looks gorgeous!
Henry .45-70 with a scope from 1895 Scopes.