Honestly I tried and used the search feature to no avail, so I have to ask…
How many AR’s are enough, more importantly how many do you own?
I’m afraid to tell the wife what I’ve done over the course of my 3 months off on family leave. I wonder if she noticed the brand new 34 gun Liberty Lincoln Safe in the den? I tell you the internet is not your friend!
I have 1 completed AR-15 (RECON Type) and two other AR-15 in progress. Then two AR-10’s in the works too right behind them. Those sit right next to two M1A’s, then all my shotguns, hunting rifles and pistols.
This is very subjective. Really depends what you want and what you think you need them for. How practical or rational you want to be or dont want to be about it. You can keep it to a handful of usable ARs or you can add a few safe queens into the mix, a registered auto etc… Again, really depends how many you think is enough or atleast, you can safely own without the risk of the wife grabbing one and actually using it on you.
It is a question I’ve had many times and it helps me keep my ID under control. I have three. Two SBR’s and a middlength. I would like many more but for now I am good. Until more bills are paid I am on hold. Several times a week I want to buy another but at this point ammo, magazines and trainig are more important for me now.
Think about it this way. If you had half an hour to pack and leave your house how many guns could you really take with you.
If you have extra money and can afford more go for it.
Buy as many as you want & can store safely. AR15s sure take up a lot of room in a safe, almost twice the room of my Garands and bolt guns. That said, I guess I can always line the back of my garage w/ safes…lol.
Seriously though. There is no real cut and dry answer to this.
The number of ARs, or firearms in general, that you own doesn’t matter. What is important is your ability to use them for their intended purpose.
If you own 10 ARs and can’t use them properly then it is a waste. If you own a single AR and are proficient with it in all situations then that is all you will need.
At one point I owned 7 or 8 ARs. They were all useless to me. I didn’t know how to use them and the quality of the rifles was questionable at best. I no longer have a single one of those guns. I currently have 2 (An SPR and a General gun) and 2 more on the way (SBR and .22). All are high quality and worth more than all the others I had before. But more importantly I have started to learn how to use them.
There are days when I open my safe and it feels empty. I have gone from 40+ guns to barely a Dozen. But those 12 or so guns are more useful than anything I have owned before.
I think you really “need” 3 AR’s. I say you need a 14.5 or 16 inch carbine or mid-length, an SBR, and a SPR with 18 or 20 inch barrel. That should cover the basics, but I really get needs and wants confused.
I’m thinking like the above. A SBR, a 14.5 middy and a 18"- 20" SPR. Of course there’s always room to talk yourself into more:D. I already have the 14.5" middy now I’m going to work on the SBR.
How did you do it? I keep thinking I should trade/sell some of the ones I have so I can get something that might be more useful. I always come up with a reason not to get rid of the ones I have.
I just forced myself to do it one day. I opened up my safes laid everything out on the ground and grabbed a notebook. Everything I had not shot in the last 2 months went on one list, the ones I had shot went on another.
I then broke those lists down by quality and reliability. Of those original guns I kept 4. A Ruger Mk2, a S&W MP9 an Old Enfield and a Mosin Nagant. Everything else got sold or traded.
I am not saying it was easy but I feel it was necessary. My collection was getting out of hand. Not because of the size but because of the uselessness of it.
My goal is to limit myself to one lower with two uppers.
1 x BCM middy lightweight with BUIS, Aimpoint H-1 and a light for serious work.
1 x 6.5 Grendel with 10 x SS scope for punching paper at long distance.
However, I have a cheat in the system. My best friend and business partner lives in DC, and I will have to keep track of her AR for her, so that second one doesn’t count… I think she will prolly need something mid-range…
And maybe a handgun for good measure. I am no sniper but I always did pretty gun at the ranges back in the Army. I could normally get 36/40 and a few of those hits were the 300. And that was just with iron sights only. I figure if you are proficient enough with your riffle, its all you need.
I did not have as many but went through a very similar process. I had the shit scared out of me when my Leukemia relapsed this summer after >5yrs of remission.
I looked at my guns and with a bit of a morbid thought process knew I would get more money for the guns than my wife would if she needed to sell them after I died. I had some really nice guns that I liked but just never shot. I sold one 16” BCM middy, a 30-06 pump, a few shotguns, a muzzle loader and a few pistols. All but the BCM are guns I’ve not really thought much about in years.
That left me with my LMT SBR and a 14.5” (pinned) middy LMT/BCM and a second BCM SBR in the works. The paper work was approved several weeks ago so I am back up to three AR’s. I still have a 12 gauge, .22 pistol, .22 rifle, and a few other pistols and rifles.
