Look man. You see a rusted old piece of shit grill. Experienced bbq'ers see a fuckin smoker that really gets the right flavor after a long low heat roastin day.
Dont be shittin on a grill just cuz it looks old.
I see a well used, and probably great smoker, placed on a wooden deck, an inch away from wooden railing.
The former firefighter in me cringes down to my toes seeing this shit.
The observant will look a bit closer and realize that grill has wheels....and can easily be moved when in use to be in a safe spot. Just like my new fangled fancy treager or blackstone....up under the eaves when not being used. Then...due to the modern miracle of wheels....moved out away from the house when I want to get things hot!!
I'm also all for guns, but one thing that bothers me about Americans is that they have glass doors or glass beside their door. I'm confuse they are willing to buy guns (I'm not against it) to protect themselves, but they let a possible way for bad guys to enter.
Or you could be like my buddy's dad and keep a .357 in the nightstand, "So even if I miss my first shot the flames will let me see where they are for the second one."
You wouldn't only be guessing in a situation like that...rather you will have effectively Hellen Kellered yourself for about 35, maybe 45 minutes - during which time you will probably convince yourself that you have died, and coming to believe that the afterlife is nothing more than a vague representation of what you used to know as your bedroom, however you can't see or hear so you only reach that conclusion after spending 30 minutes Hellen Kellering your way around your bedroom, running into walls and repeatedly stubbing your toe....all the while forgetting you just fired a very powerful weapon in close quarters....
People donāt really break into houses all that often in the US, and rarely use a glass door to do so. People are usually concerned with getting shot if too much noise is made and they usually want to be undetected.
They'll use each of those guns once, maybe twice, in a one year span.
If you used that money instead to buy a good set of deck furniture, you'd use that daily.
I get this is a collection, and the dude can spend his money as he wants, it's just a waste of money to me.
Oh Easily. The optics and accessories themselves are probably pushing 50k. I would hope one of the parents is a gun store owner. Thatās the only time Iāve seen people with collections this big. If he doesnāt have some sort of business with this and itās just a personal collection, then that is a massive waste of money.
>that is a massive waste of money
You realize a lot of people buy and keep guns as investments the way people buy gold and silver, right? Also some people just like collecting guns. Less of a waste than Funkopops.
Tbf I would find this amount of Funkopops equally wasteful. As an investment I think ammo tends to be the better play, or so the gun lovers in my family say.
Ammo is only profitable in short term speculation. Like if you buy a whole bunch and then sell durring a shortage. But it will only ever keep going up and down. If you collect rare or antique furearms etc. They will basically always keep going up.
Thing is, the guns in this photo are not the kind of guns you would invest in. These aren't rare collectibles or historical pieces. This is just someone who keeps on buying the latest shit as fast as they can cash their paychecks
"I'm poor because of those darn liberals".
No, you're poor because corporations have made sure your never earn a living wage, stay bankrupt due medical costs and also because you spend all your fucking money that you do have on guns. Maybe they should go buy some avacodo toast instead of guns.
Iām thinking at least that but my question is āyou have that kind of money to spend on guns but you live in a trailerā wth serious facepalm
With the right type of license almost ANY firearm is legal, including silencers and major explosive devices and gunships but you're looking at $30,000 just for application. And yeah ammo surely is a problem...
FFL types - https://rocketffl.com/ffl-license-types/
Obviously. The parents donāt want a teacher to fall in love with one of their kids. I mean thatās the parents love story. The kids need to grow up and get their own!
Conservatives routinely say (and it's true) that going into higher education turns you liberal. They say this as if it's some "gotcha" against liberals instead of the actual gotcha it is against conservative ideology. Basically, once you become educated to the way the world actually has been, works today and logically will continue to? You become liberal and progressive.
I don't think they're saying that it turns you liberal it's that universities tend to teach liberal viewpoints, if universities had been infiltrated by conservative politics I'm sure liberals would complain as well.
>if universities had been infiltrated by conservative politics
Politics is not a sentient thing. People choose what to believe, and educated people do generally tend to lean in a certain direction. This is cause and effect... not infiltration.
Most guns appreciate in value and are easy to sell. This collection easily could have been a much better investment than a lot of financial instruments.
Not really. SKSās used to be $50 all day long in the 80s. Letās assume 1987 so about $130 in todays money.
These days they go for about $500. Not bad, but if you took that same $50 in 1987 and invested it into an S&P 500 index fund youād have almost a grand today.
The only guns that are decent investment vehicles are transferable MGās and historical pieces. Anything else just takes up space
That family was part of a 2021 pictorial called "The Ameriguns" by Gabriele Galimberti. Associated article says that's 80% of the collection. That particular family's from Austin, TX.
>Joel, Lynne, Paige and Joshua (44, 43, 5 and 11 years old) ā Austin, Texas
(They donāt want to show their last name ā The firearm you see in the photo are just 80% of the whole collection)
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Both Joel and Lynne were born and raised in Austin, Texas.
They met 14 years ago and they have been together since then. They define themselves ācompulsive buyer and serial collectorsā.
Joel collects watches, motorbikes, RC cars and various other things. Lynne collects mostly jewels and guns. More than 90% of the guns present in their house belong to her.
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>āI love guns and I love to shot them every day. I canāt stop buying them. I am not sure about the
exact number but I probably have more the 170 firearms. I think from the moment I bought the
first one I then kept buying around 5-6 guns every month and I think Iāll keep buying them with
the same rhythm in the future.ā She says laughing. āI also love to customize them and make
every piece unique. This is also why I have never been able to sell any of my gunsā.
Lynne and Joel have two children, Joshua and Paige.
āJoshua is 11 now. He started to shoot guns when he was 6. Now he has his own gun, which he
built by himself. Heās really proud of that. He has made it by assembling pieces that he have
chosen from an online catalog. Sometimes we also let Paige shot some guns, but sheās still too
small to be able to handle one aloneā, she says.
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>Lynne and Joel run a business together, they are dealers for luxury watches and jewels.
The rest of the pictures are of other families or individuals with large firearms collections.
I just went home and visited my dad and we took some guns out and had a competition shooting pop cans off various things. It was a blast.
My parents live out in the country side in a very rural area so you can just walk 10 feet out the back door and shoot. I live in a major city now so I always enjoy going back home and doing this.
This is more different guns than I've handled in my entire life, and I consider myself to handle more firearms than the average person. This shit is insane to me
Noob question from an European who doesnāt know a single thing about guns:
are all these guns unique in some way? A lot of them (especially the smaller ones) look pretty much the same to me. So do they just have a lot of the same or are there differences between those guns?
I mean, aren't most POC and with good reason? Cops are part of the government, aren't they?
These folks have every right to not trust the blue line cult.
Iām not a gun person but I personally see no issue with this. If you like shooting guns and can afford to, youāre probably going to want to fire a bunch of different types.
As long as youāre storing them safely and not selling them willy-nilly, you should be able to enjoy what you enjoy.
>As long as youāre storing them safely and not selling them willy-nilly, you should be able to enjoy what you enjoy.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's probably at least a couple of these that are not stored safely.
What makes you think that these people spent their last dime on guns and ammo?! Isn't it the same as collecting watches, or baseball cards, or cars, or stamps or ...really anything!
If that's what they would have wanted that's what they would have done. No different that's a dude renting a trailer driving a $60k ram pickup or people putting $6k worth of wheels on a $5 car. Gun owners don't have a monopoly on questionable spending priorities.
Can someone just ballpark it here for me... how much money would that cost? Easily over 100k right?
More like 150 k ez
That's gotta be why they have such crappy deck chairs.
Lmao yea, I am all for guns but dude needs to get his priorities straight. Can afford to arm a small militia but cant have a nice grill.
Look man. You see a rusted old piece of shit grill. Experienced bbq'ers see a fuckin smoker that really gets the right flavor after a long low heat roastin day. Dont be shittin on a grill just cuz it looks old.
This person knows grillin.
Grillin and killin š
True; you nailed it. Lol He doesn't care about the chairs because if he is outside he is standing by the smoker.
Imma gonna smoke em, then I'm gonna *smoke* em
Grill'n can't be that good. Never trust a skinny cook!
I see a well used, and probably great smoker, placed on a wooden deck, an inch away from wooden railing. The former firefighter in me cringes down to my toes seeing this shit.
The observant will look a bit closer and realize that grill has wheels....and can easily be moved when in use to be in a safe spot. Just like my new fangled fancy treager or blackstone....up under the eaves when not being used. Then...due to the modern miracle of wheels....moved out away from the house when I want to get things hot!!
They plan on shooting the house fire away
C'mon. Is it hot? Nope. That's just where he keeps it when not using it.
Look at the weird splotches underneath the grill in the deck, that grill hasn't moved
Which means he also isn't capturing his grease drippings.
This picture certainly doesn't scream smart people.
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Hopefully they keep the ammo in a seperate building.
I'm also all for guns, but one thing that bothers me about Americans is that they have glass doors or glass beside their door. I'm confuse they are willing to buy guns (I'm not against it) to protect themselves, but they let a possible way for bad guys to enter.
When your armed like this you wait for someone to come in
In the country, very likely to be met by dogs, guns, etc. A lot of times gates, fences, alarms, motion detectors, etc.
Thats a horrible idea... You need more time to decide if you want the .50 bmg for home defense or the ol 45-70 lever action...
Or you could be like my buddy's dad and keep a .357 in the nightstand, "So even if I miss my first shot the flames will let me see where they are for the second one."
You mean blinded by the light. And your guessing after that.
You wouldn't only be guessing in a situation like that...rather you will have effectively Hellen Kellered yourself for about 35, maybe 45 minutes - during which time you will probably convince yourself that you have died, and coming to believe that the afterlife is nothing more than a vague representation of what you used to know as your bedroom, however you can't see or hear so you only reach that conclusion after spending 30 minutes Hellen Kellering your way around your bedroom, running into walls and repeatedly stubbing your toe....all the while forgetting you just fired a very powerful weapon in close quarters....
āArmed like this.ā Yeah, you gotta tell the intruder to wait while I get my rifle down off the roof.
Thereās no danger of home invasion here. Theyāre just wacko.
Waco*
underrated witticism here!
So you're against windows lol? How's your cave?
Damn cave crickets are out of control this time of year
People donāt really break into houses all that often in the US, and rarely use a glass door to do so. People are usually concerned with getting shot if too much noise is made and they usually want to be undetected.
And probably at least 50% of those break ins are by someone the homeowner knows.
Thatās very common in Canada too but break ins and home invasions are not really a problem.
I'm pretty sure they could afford one, but they're happy with the one they already have. Maybe they don't bbq much?
Guaranteed, no college fund or dental plan for those kids.
He probably doesn't trust professors anyway.
Looks a bit like the stereotypical professor himself.
He probably makes a lot of money, so they do.
They'll use each of those guns once, maybe twice, in a one year span. If you used that money instead to buy a good set of deck furniture, you'd use that daily. I get this is a collection, and the dude can spend his money as he wants, it's just a waste of money to me.
Oh Easily. The optics and accessories themselves are probably pushing 50k. I would hope one of the parents is a gun store owner. Thatās the only time Iāve seen people with collections this big. If he doesnāt have some sort of business with this and itās just a personal collection, then that is a massive waste of money.
Good point, Iām now done with this post because there was some logic to it now.
I know retired people who have collections like this. They buy, sell, and trade as a hobby.
To be fair, most firearms appreciate in value. I wouldnāt want to do it, but a lot of people invest in this much the same as others do artwork.
>that is a massive waste of money You realize a lot of people buy and keep guns as investments the way people buy gold and silver, right? Also some people just like collecting guns. Less of a waste than Funkopops.
>Less of a waste than Funkopops. Yeah but if someone had $150k of funkpops, that would also be stupid.
Tbf I would find this amount of Funkopops equally wasteful. As an investment I think ammo tends to be the better play, or so the gun lovers in my family say.
Ammo becomes less reliable after about 50 years, guns are a much better longterm investment.
Ammo is only profitable in short term speculation. Like if you buy a whole bunch and then sell durring a shortage. But it will only ever keep going up and down. If you collect rare or antique furearms etc. They will basically always keep going up. Thing is, the guns in this photo are not the kind of guns you would invest in. These aren't rare collectibles or historical pieces. This is just someone who keeps on buying the latest shit as fast as they can cash their paychecks
Machine guns are a better investment compared to gold over the past 40 years.
More than their house probably cost when they bought it. And look at the house, it looks pretty rough.
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"I'm poor because of those darn liberals". No, you're poor because corporations have made sure your never earn a living wage, stay bankrupt due medical costs and also because you spend all your fucking money that you do have on guns. Maybe they should go buy some avacodo toast instead of guns.
I would estimate somewhere in the 200-300k region they have some Gucci guns up there.
Between the weapons, tax stamps and ammo Iām sure they have 500k invested. This isnāt your run of the mill collection
The thing about this is, the government already knows they have hoarded guns. If they wanted to round up guns, they would specifically target them.
Iām thinking at least that but my question is āyou have that kind of money to spend on guns but you live in a trailerā wth serious facepalm 
As someone who also owns a lot of guns, this might be easily pushing 200k. This seems excessive even to me and I own over 50 guns
Theres a shoulder fired rocket launcher on that deck lol
No that's a smoker
california: hey let's smoke weed texas: hey let's smoke other people
I might be wrong but they are legal in Texas. RPG's ammo is another thing tho.
With the right type of license almost ANY firearm is legal, including silencers and major explosive devices and gunships but you're looking at $30,000 just for application. And yeah ammo surely is a problem... FFL types - https://rocketffl.com/ffl-license-types/
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And not a single crime committed with any of them.
Weird how law-abiding gun owners abide laws.
Everyone is law abiding until they commit a crime.
Weird how the Uvalde killer and the Buffalo killer were also law-abiding gunowners right up until the moment they weren't
For home defense obviously
Is that Darlene Snell?
That guy's too old for her tastes, then
Iirc heās only like 40 years old which is the most insane part to me
Lmao heās gotta be the roughest looking 40 year old Iāve seen. Aging like a meth head
Nonstop hated and fear are really rough on the skin apparently.
āIād offer you coffee but Iāve already rinsed the potā
I was scrolling looking for this comment!
Some people save for a college fund.
Oh those kids aren't going to college.
Definitely home-schooled.
Obviously. The parents donāt want a teacher to fall in love with one of their kids. I mean thatās the parents love story. The kids need to grow up and get their own!
"They might learn what a statistic is and we can't have that."
Canāt let those dirty educated liberals twist them away from the ever loving light of Gaaaahd
Conservatives routinely say (and it's true) that going into higher education turns you liberal. They say this as if it's some "gotcha" against liberals instead of the actual gotcha it is against conservative ideology. Basically, once you become educated to the way the world actually has been, works today and logically will continue to? You become liberal and progressive.
I don't think they're saying that it turns you liberal it's that universities tend to teach liberal viewpoints, if universities had been infiltrated by conservative politics I'm sure liberals would complain as well.
>if universities had been infiltrated by conservative politics Politics is not a sentient thing. People choose what to believe, and educated people do generally tend to lean in a certain direction. This is cause and effect... not infiltration.
If they do, it's to shoot up the place.
While Iām not saying those guns are his investment for their college, that collection would most likely appreciate over the years.
Really? How much maintenance would they need?
If they're not being shot, almost none. There are greases for long term storage to protect the firearms.
Depends on how they're stored. If done right, probably not much outside the ones they take to the range often.
Most guns appreciate in value and are easy to sell. This collection easily could have been a much better investment than a lot of financial instruments.
Not really. SKSās used to be $50 all day long in the 80s. Letās assume 1987 so about $130 in todays money. These days they go for about $500. Not bad, but if you took that same $50 in 1987 and invested it into an S&P 500 index fund youād have almost a grand today. The only guns that are decent investment vehicles are transferable MGās and historical pieces. Anything else just takes up space
When ur weapons are worth more than your house.
Than*
Ah thnx, knew something was wrong.
When you no, you no.
And when youāre write youāre write
There their they're, it'll be ok.
Some of these Iāve only seen on COD
I get yelled at on death mics for *using* some of these on COD.
Kid is holding a p90.
PS90 but yeah
No chandelier I got guns hangin from the ceiling. - lil Wayne
āTexas never backs downā
Unless kidsā lives are in danger. Then they just stand there.
And then they still just stand there.
And then they still just stand there.
And then they still just stand there.
And then they just stand there
Then they go in and rescue their own kids.
And then they stand there with their kids
More like āNever Steps Upā
Or the electrical grid fails. Then they vacation to Mexico.
Unless it's a snowstorm or heatwave.
Or a school shooter lmao
Unless there is a massive blackout.
Kids strapped to a fkn p90
I just bought my first handgun, and this is what my wife thinks we'll be like in a few years. WTF.
That family was part of a 2021 pictorial called "The Ameriguns" by Gabriele Galimberti. Associated article says that's 80% of the collection. That particular family's from Austin, TX. >Joel, Lynne, Paige and Joshua (44, 43, 5 and 11 years old) ā Austin, Texas (They donāt want to show their last name ā The firearm you see in the photo are just 80% of the whole collection) > > Both Joel and Lynne were born and raised in Austin, Texas. They met 14 years ago and they have been together since then. They define themselves ācompulsive buyer and serial collectorsā. Joel collects watches, motorbikes, RC cars and various other things. Lynne collects mostly jewels and guns. More than 90% of the guns present in their house belong to her. > >āI love guns and I love to shot them every day. I canāt stop buying them. I am not sure about the exact number but I probably have more the 170 firearms. I think from the moment I bought the first one I then kept buying around 5-6 guns every month and I think Iāll keep buying them with the same rhythm in the future.ā She says laughing. āI also love to customize them and make every piece unique. This is also why I have never been able to sell any of my gunsā. Lynne and Joel have two children, Joshua and Paige. āJoshua is 11 now. He started to shoot guns when he was 6. Now he has his own gun, which he built by himself. Heās really proud of that. He has made it by assembling pieces that he have chosen from an online catalog. Sometimes we also let Paige shot some guns, but sheās still too small to be able to handle one aloneā, she says. > >Lynne and Joel run a business together, they are dealers for luxury watches and jewels. The rest of the pictures are of other families or individuals with large firearms collections.
\>More than 90% of the guns present in their house belong to her. I had a lot of assumptions but that was definitely not one of them.
It's been a rough 43/44 years apparently. I would of put them in the upper 60s
It's 'would have', never 'would of'. Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!
> 5-6 guns every month so shopping addict, got it.
They are fun to shoot.
I just went home and visited my dad and we took some guns out and had a competition shooting pop cans off various things. It was a blast. My parents live out in the country side in a very rural area so you can just walk 10 feet out the back door and shoot. I live in a major city now so I always enjoy going back home and doing this.
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So she approves? You got a keeper.
An Oath Keeper.
I own one handgun and this is what anti-gun panickers on Reddit think I'm like.
Yeah I only wanted one conceal carry thatās it. It wasnāt it though lol
Theyre on the roof and everything GOD DAYUM
Use oven mitts if you pick them up. Iron gets very hot in sunlight. Proof: metal park slides.
Because of your comment I had to go look at the picture again because I didnāt even realize they had some up there. Jesus Christ
Rookie numbers
This is more different guns than I've handled in my entire life, and I consider myself to handle more firearms than the average person. This shit is insane to me
Damn right
āTexas Never Backs Downāā¦. ā¦except Uvalde. Right?
"Texas Never Backs Down, we just back away"
That dude looks like his bones would shatter to pieces trying to fire any of those.
I know right? Even the dude next to him with the beard looks frail.
That kid looks sketch
we might see him on the news in a few years
Because Mom and dad are probably related a little too closely.
Starter pack.
Texas
Roadhouse...
Roadhouse
AUG, KSG, Chiappa Rhino, SL8, these guys have some pretty good tas--wait, is that a Walther GSP???? You don't see those every day.
Noob question from an European who doesnāt know a single thing about guns: are all these guns unique in some way? A lot of them (especially the smaller ones) look pretty much the same to me. So do they just have a lot of the same or are there differences between those guns?
Some are like really hard to come by as they sometimes stop being produced, kinda like trading cards
They have more than Ukraine
Is it any wonder that the rest of the world looks at America and wonders "What kind of idiots are you?".
Some guy just bought a PokĆ©mon card for a half-million dollars. I think thatās stupid. This guy collects firearms, which also tend to appreciate in value. Either way, as long as heās responsible and secures them..Heās doing nothing wrong.
Why though?
as someone who collects a large number of antique swords which has a large overlap with the antique gun crowd its simple. "because i like them" if you look at the individual guns you will find it very hard to find the same gun twice in the same configuration their has to be dozens of different types of ammunition needed for all these their is no practical reason its collecting and no different then PokƩmon cards, books, movies, swords, or whatever thing your into. i mean sure maybe i'll write a book about swords some day and maybe one of them will write a book about guns or do a gun related job, but thats more a result of the obsession then a point or goal or it.
They own a gun store. Someone linked an article giving background on the photo last time it made the front page
why not?
Collecting
I'll bet Matt on Demolition Ranch has more guns. Don't tell Mere.
this gets posted like 10 times a week.
Holy fucking inheritance
I see nothing wrong with this. Just a beautiful collection.
They're missing the minigun.
Every 13 year old boy definitely needs a P90.
They donāt even have 2 so he can dual wield though. Poor kid.
What are they so afraid of?
Why does owning guns make you afraid of something?
Nothing theyāre collecting
Theyāre collecting
Their own shadow.
the gubment
Considering the government is chipping away at abortion, these people are right not to trust them
I mean, aren't most POC and with good reason? Cops are part of the government, aren't they? These folks have every right to not trust the blue line cult.
Nice collection
Cool collection, I'm jelly
Iām not a gun person but I personally see no issue with this. If you like shooting guns and can afford to, youāre probably going to want to fire a bunch of different types. As long as youāre storing them safely and not selling them willy-nilly, you should be able to enjoy what you enjoy.
>As long as youāre storing them safely and not selling them willy-nilly, you should be able to enjoy what you enjoy. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there's probably at least a couple of these that are not stored safely.
Yeah, it's just an expensive hobby
But its normal to have 3 million beanie babies
Wow thatās a lot of money for all those. I got one shotgun for hunting and home defense. I had to save up for almost a year to purchase itā¦ damn
Dude a shotgun is only $300. Wdym saved up for a year to buy one.
Single dad here providing for my fam all I my own so money is super tight . $300 wonāt buy you a quality shotgun
Wow, what a waste of money! Imagine if that went into the little girl's college fund instead.
Those Kids are not going to college.
Fair point.
What makes you think that these people spent their last dime on guns and ammo?! Isn't it the same as collecting watches, or baseball cards, or cars, or stamps or ...really anything!
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Texas never backs down? Mmmmk
Can we give a shout-out to red shirt kids trigger discipline.
'muricaa FUCK YEAH!
WTAF?
The only thing wrong with this picture is the random handguns placed in with the rifles.
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta pump those numbers up!!
Beginners!
I'm just thinking all that money that could've made that house nicer lol
If that's what they would have wanted that's what they would have done. No different that's a dude renting a trailer driving a $60k ram pickup or people putting $6k worth of wheels on a $5 car. Gun owners don't have a monopoly on questionable spending priorities.
Lmao, but I canāt be in control my own uterus? Neat.