Bill Nance
Banned
The first year I could legally own MY OWN guns, I was 18 and still in the military. They supplied the guns and ammo.
After I was out of the military at 21 I could own guns without a permit but didn't own any. I was busy paying rent and tuition.
At 25 I was burgled. I was afraid to enter my own home (turns out to have been a smart, move, my burglar was arrested with a .25 auto). The next day I went to a gun show and bought a piece of SHIT Ruger P90 in .45 ACP which I carried concealed for a while. On the night I got robbed, I vowed I would never again be defenseless in the presence of armed criminals.
Absent immoral state laws which have prevented me from doing so for periods of time (Mass. sucks ASS) I have kept that vow and never been unarmed since.
The first year I bought the Ruger, I sold it and bought a browning Hi-Power. Later that year I bought a second gun, a S&W 1076. Two guns was as many as I ever owned for years and years. It wasn't until my 40s that I had the disposable income to have a "collection."
It's not the number, it's the intent and the competence.
My wife insists that I include HER experience.
The first year after she got her LTC we bought a 1911, a Ruger Security Six, A Ruger mini-14, a SIG 556, a Beretta 92fs, a S&W 2506, a Sig P220, a Marlin 336 RW a Marlin Glenfield .22, a Winchester 1300, a Colt Woodsman and a Lee Enfield. -That's when the gun fund ran out.
So ya, that's 12 guns in the first year she was "allowed" to own them under Mass.' immoral gun laws and she went hog wild. All but two of those purchases were HER guns.
Come to think of it, the prohibition of guns under Mass. law may actually make for MORE rabid gun-nuts than free states' lackadaisical approach. You ALWAYS want more of what you "can't" have.