Probably when the gun safe is full. I don't own any firearms but my wife has copious amounts..
What does morality have have to do with the number of guns someone owns? Nothing!In late 1998, I knew one old gray "campus" police chief, first name of Ted, at College of Marin campus in Kentfield, Marin County, California who thought it was totally wrong for "an ordinary" citizen to own as many as eight firearms.
This is in the SF Bay Area which is about the most lefty part of Commie-fornia.
He claimed it was "the right of police officers" to own that many guns and that "most people didn't own so many guns".
This was before SCOTUS ruled that the Second Amendment was an INDIVIDUAL right.
Where is the word "POLICE" enumerated in the 2nd A anyway?
So, if some cop were ever to try to jack you or shame you about owning any number of guns, how would you try to explain it?
Do you use the old cop-out that "I am a collector" or "I am hunter"?
This same guy named Ted also thought that any person who would keep a loaded shotgun by his bed at night to be "paranoid".
Incidentally, a young officer in Ted's department claimed that he was pro-Second Amendment.
The rank and file cops tend to be pro-gun but the higher ups are often gun-grabbers.
Cops and others with the mentality of Ted are the single greatest danger to the American ideals of liberty. No mass shooter is as nearly as dangerous.
My simple answer would be not enough, never enough.as far as an officer....or anyone else......asking me how many firearms i own, the answer is simple........"enough"
Typically, most police organizations like the FOP and especially the IACP tend to be anti-gun at the leadership level and tend to endorse the democrat party.......or at least they have in the past. i quit the FOP back in the 90's when they endorsed clinton.
Common' Alan.....you own all that? You need to share what you have; it's your "moral" obligation! Don't believe me? Ask Bernie, Elizabeth or any of the others!What the Hell kind of question is that? Owning any piece of legal property is not a moral issue. There's no answer, moot point, whether it's guns or beanie babies.
Alan
What the Hell kind of question is that? Owning any piece of legal property is not a moral issue. There's no answer, moot point, whether it's guns or beanie babies.
Apparently, the police chief, Ted, cited above did think it a MORAL issue. He had that "shame-on-you-for-owning-eight-guns" attitude. The Marin County Sheriff's Department, under Sheriff Doyle, along with the College of Marin "campus police" under Ted got a warrant to search my brother's home in northern California, CA in 1998 and arrest my brother. The police showed up at my brother's house with 10 police cars and an army of officers with paramilitary dress and paramilitary-looking weapons on the morning on November 4, 1998. My brother was under suspicion for "making a bomb scare" against a community college in that area but that charge was later dismissed. Ted interrogated my brother and the eight guns the police found during the search including the police pump by his bed with shells in it apparently was a "big deal" with Ted. My brother was not even suspected of any firearm-related incident. Chief Ted lectured my brother during the interrogation seeming to thrash his Second Amendment rights. After the charge was dismissed, my brother got all his guns back about five months later. The cops confiscated all of them while the charge was pending. The issue should have only been about the alleged crime in question, not how many guns the suspect owned.Alan
No, they won't.The whole point of this thread is the police or others may question the number of guns you own or even scold you for owning so many.
The question about the morality of gun numbers was meant to be rhetorical and facetious at best.All of my guns are immorally owned.
Some are even more immorally owned than other.
What's the greatest number of dildos any Liberal should morally own?
FIFY.
Don't worry!How many pairs of shoes should any woman in America be able to own?
As many as she can afford to acquire without stealing them, going on welfare or depleting the children's college fund (or EVEN TOUCHING ONE CENT OF the man's boating and hunting fund).How many pairs of shoes should any woman in America be able to own?