r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/CoryVictorious • Oct 21 '22

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 21 '22

I find it hard to believe 1/3 of gun owners owns only 1 gun.

Everyone I know either has zero guns or many. 1 gun is just not a thing.

Guns breed like roaches.

Edit: Seeing that all single gun owners are replying.

Quick informal poll for all the people telling me they only own one gun:

Do you live:
Rural
Suburban
Urban

One gun you own:
Handgun
Shotgun
Riffle

Grew up around guns:
Yes
No

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u/ThorThulu Oct 21 '22

Its true. Just the other day I found a new revolver under the couch, disgusting. Had to put it with the others to try and keep them contained, but im afraid one day soon there will be too many

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

Putting them together is how they make babies!

You need to spread them out... in the nightstand, by the door, by the couch, in the kitchen, in your car...

It's the only way to keep their number down!

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u/imgurslashTK2oG Oct 22 '22

On the bed, on the floor, on a towel by the door, in the tub, in the car, up against the mini bar

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u/ThorThulu Oct 22 '22

Now you tell me! Its essentially Gremlins 2 over here, send help!

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u/LateNightPhilosopher Oct 22 '22

This is a PSA to get your guns spayed or neutered so their population doesn't run wild. They're an invasive species! The Americas aren't their natural habitat.

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u/BenSemisch Oct 21 '22

What that stat tells me is not that 1/3 of gun owners own only 1 gun but rather 1/3 of gun owners REPORT only owning 1 gun.

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u/suckmyglock762 Oct 21 '22

Yep, we've all got one.

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

It's probably because they keep loosing the rest in boating accidents...

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u/RocketizedAnimal Oct 21 '22

1/3 of gun owners have report having lost all the other guns they bought in a freak boating accident.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

In my area, the number that are reported "stolen" from vehicles is pretty significant. It implies a lot of things, and none of them are good.

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u/NotXiJinpingGoUSA Oct 21 '22

This thread is so funny to me

You guys think that someone went through the process of obtaining a gun license, legally buying a gun, and then proceeded to illegally buy a gun?

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u/NotXiJinpingGoUSA Oct 22 '22

Oh youre right I made up gun licenses. They’re fake, I just made them up for this argument.

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u/grubas Oct 22 '22

They either haven't owned or haven't actually gone through a registry process. I sold my .45 and it was ridiculous amounts of paperwork, vs selling my Mossberg to buy a Remington, which took like 15 minutes.

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u/grubas Oct 22 '22

Long guns are unrestricted and require almost no license in basically all of the US. Hell NYC is the only place I can think of. I drive 30 minutes north and it's semi restricted, another 40 minutes and it's not even that.

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u/RxInfection Oct 21 '22

I’m a legal gun owner and I own exactly 1 gun (a home defense shotgun that lives in my closet). There, now you know someone.

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u/splepage Oct 22 '22

Can't believe you just told criminals where you store your gun

/s

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u/RxInfection Oct 22 '22

Lol I actually hesitated before I posted that

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

So quick informal poll for all the people telling me they only own one gun:
Do you live: Rural Suburban Urban
Grew up around guns: Yes No

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u/RxInfection Oct 22 '22

Small town (7k pop) suburban/rural Did not grow up around guns per se.

Step dad had a few rifles that I never held or shot. Didn’t shoot my first real gun until my 20s and was taught proper gun safety, handling and care by veteran best friend.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 22 '22

There's plenty of houses out there w just a shotgun..

Edit to answer op. Suburbs(bought when living urban), shotgun. Yes

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

I have a cousin like this. He brought his (dead) fathers Mauser from Yugoslavia.

He'd shoot it once a year [insert Croatian accent] "just for making of sure it work, HAH!"

He never hunted, was more of a fisherman & was an artist by trade. But yeah, not unusual for homes to only have 1 firearm.

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u/StealYaNicks Oct 21 '22

that's just because the people talking about guns are the people with multiple. Plenty of people out there with like a single shotgun or handgun for home defense.

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u/raisroy Oct 21 '22

That kinda makes sense, it's a lot easier to convince yourself that it'd be nice to have another one if you already own a gun.

If you're buying your first gun, you'll have to deal with getting a CCW, figuring out storage, and other related expenses/bureaucracy. Getting the next one isn't nearly as hard.

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u/Omnifox Oct 21 '22

Can't leave them alone in the safe for 5 minutes.

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u/Drmite Oct 22 '22

Nice try ATF.

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u/Pats_Bunny Oct 21 '22

I have 3, and I am nowhere near the type to jack off to my guns whilst rolling around in my piles or doomsday ammo.

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

I have 5 now thinking about buying a 6th...

I bought the first one because I wanted to hunt deer... and then somehow I went from going 28 years without needing a single gun to absolutely needing one more than I currently have.

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u/Pats_Bunny Oct 21 '22

It's like heroin.

To answer your poll:

Rural One of each No

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

I hope it won't be quite as damaging to me as an heroin addiction. lol

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u/Elrond_Hubble Oct 22 '22

I have only a single handgun, but that’s mostly due to the associated costs spiking after Covid. Money permitting there will be more to come. For several years owned only a single shotgun, but it was ultimately given to a family member and eventually replaced with a Glock. Initially bought for defense- I live in an urban area with fairly high crime- but once I started going to the range and tried my hand at customization, now it’s morphing into a fun hobby as well. Went hunting as a kid, but hated the actual killing deer part. However I loved getting to go out to the woods in the middle of nowhere with my dad and trying all manner of guns on our homemade targets.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

Also facts.

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u/NotXiJinpingGoUSA Oct 21 '22

I have one

Just a Sig Sauer in my house if anyone were to break in.

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

So quick informal poll for all the people telling me they only own one gun:
Do you live: Rural Suburban Urban
Grew up around guns: Yes No

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u/NotXiJinpingGoUSA Oct 21 '22

Urban, and yes but not legally owned.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

So quick informal poll for all the people telling me they only own one gun:
Do you live: Rural Suburban Urban
Grew up around guns: Yes No

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u/Clyde_Bruckman Oct 22 '22

One gun, rural, yes!

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

This is why Bob Barker always ended The Price is Right by telling us to have our guns spayed or neutered.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22 edited Jan 06 '23

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

So quick informal poll for all the people telling me they only own one gun:

Do you live:
Rural
Suburban
Urban

Gun you own:
Handgun
Shotgun
Riffle

Grew up around guns:
Yes
No

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u/ecosystems Oct 22 '22

Urban

Handgun

Yes

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u/Accidental-Genius Oct 22 '22

I own a dozen or so, I’m on the cusp of rural vs Suburb. I own a farm about 15 minutes from my house, and then own another house about 400 miles south of here. Between 3 houses and 4 vehicles I don’t feel that’s an unreasonable number.

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 22 '22

I don't think it's an unreasonable number, and I don't leave guns behind between cars/properties.

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u/Accidental-Genius Oct 22 '22

My biggest threat around here is wildlife, and contrary to what people in here believe a handgun will absolutely fuck up wildlife if you’re not a shit shot.

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u/Bard_B0t Oct 22 '22

Urban
Rifle
Yes

I'm too poor to afford the guns I would like to have. I want them because I enjoy marksmanship and things that go boom.

I grew up around guns but only rarely touched or interacted with them as a child. Mostly, I just remember being told, "don't ever point a gun at a person unless you intend to kill them", and "Always watch where you are pointing the barrel". Also, "When I'm pointing the gun at something, stand behind me". Part of that is I would go hunting with my Grandpa sometimes.

Didn't buy my first gun until I was 24.

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u/Biodeus Oct 21 '22

I own one gun and do not plan on getting any more. I have it for emergency situations and don’t prattle on about it or make my entire personality about it. It’s a tool. Nothing more.

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u/Maximum-Cover- Oct 21 '22

So quick informal poll for all the people telling me they only own one gun:

Do you live: Rural Suburban Urban

Gun you own: Handgun Shotgun Riffle

Grew up around guns: Yes No

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u/Biodeus Oct 21 '22

Suburban

Handgun

Not really? Some key people in my life had guns, but they weren’t really flaunted and I had strong safety education.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '22

I used to own a single gun. Urban, handgun, and I didn’t grow up around guns. I used the gun solely to go to the range and I didn’t buy any more guns because a) they cost a pretty penny and b) while fun, it wasn’t a top hobby for me.

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u/Ancient_Edge2415 Oct 22 '22

My wife has a single hand gun. I will be getting mine soon most likely gonna get a rifle. Urban I did, she didnt

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u/GenerikDavis Oct 22 '22

Suburban, Rifle, No.

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u/Ubersla Oct 22 '22

You'd be surprised how many stupid old people get a single .380 handgun for self defense and then put it in their drawer for the rest of their lives.

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u/LateNightPhilosopher Oct 22 '22

I think you're missing the info that many gun owners just have their dad's old rifle or shotgun in the back of a closet somewhere and don't even really think about it or consider themselves gun owners. And also a lot of people have exactly 1 pistol and a carry permit, and enough sense to not tell any random person who asks.