Do YOU think it's a good idea to post pictures/lists of the firearms you own?

[Bunnykid68]

What guns?

The ones next to the sunken boats.

 

[j4jenk]

You can always show a card or two, just don't show your whole hand.

Agreed!

I just posted a couple pictures of antique rifle that I needed help to identify.

There is a big difference between an occasional post to show work in progress or something cool and unique verses a picture of everything in your safe (if you were the kind of person that had a safe full of guns)

 

[turnandshoot4]

Yes I have guns.

Yes I train.

Yes I compete.

No, I haven't had a boating accident.

I have filled out so many 4473s that the gov't ALREADY knows. What are we really hiding?

I see two different modes of thinking in the gun community. The old guys in the hobby I've come across were always hush hush about owning guns. I always thought it was this big cool secret. When asked about guns it was always a "no" then a wink.

Now I understand that they were a bad for the sport. By not introducing anyone to guns they shrank the sport. By not being open about owning guns they allowed the gun culture to be an "underground" culture.

Let me break it to everyone. The gov't knows you have guns. Your family knows you have guns. Your friends likely know you have guns.

Who are you really fooling?


To directly answer the OP: I have had MANY INGO'ers to my house for various lectures, classes, and just hang outs. Do I advertise everything I own? No. Do I hide in fear? No. We are here to talk, share experiences, and have fun. No pics is no fun.

 

[churchmouse]

I believe I was on the list before the days of internet firearms forums (at least ones that had more than a couple dozen registered members). I really don't care too much about posting something up. If you can get past the boobytraps to get into my well hidden bunker, go ahead. Once you enter, you'll be met with a wall of fire. If you survive that, there are random kids toys laying on the floor in the dark. Since the fire should have burned your shoes/boots off, have fun stepping on thousands of Legos. If you get past that, enjoy my collection but remember...there is only 1 way in or out. You'll encounter the boobytraps yet again. Not sure it is really worth it for a couple of Raven .25s.

Thieves are not usually smart enough to give consideration to such things.
Clear up the mess if you catch one and remember, A friend will bail you out of jail, a good friend will help you hide the body's.......

 

[mms]

a few pic and dissusing expericance is one thing but taking pictures of you hole safe, or basically entier inventory all at once not cool ... at least make them work for it and have to filter through all your post to piece it together

 

[DragonGunner]

Why....has someone here at INGO who has posted been robbed because they did?

Does anyone know who I really am an where I live an when I come an go an where the guns I post are to be found?

 

[CountryBoy19]

I think it's perfectly fine.

I have a Sig P229, an AR15, and a Remington 870 shotgun... that's all I ever need...

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I don't really give it much thought. Heck, my desktop background on my work computer is currently my AK-47, and I generally rotate through my collection because, well... I like looking at them! It also starts up some conversation when coworkers walk by and see them sometimes. So, I guess I really don't know how to vote on this one.

 

[gunman41mag]

Any gun I post or claim to own is all in my mine, cause I'm a liar

 

[printcraft]

I miss the bragging rights thread.

 

[churchmouse]

I miss the bragging rights thread.

Me too. It was great times until a few got just a bit to spunky and now they are gone.

 

[dnurk]

Why....has someone here at INGO who has posted been robbed because they did?

Does anyone know who I really am an where I live an when I come an go an where the guns I post are to be found?

Very nice collection. We have similar tastes (although I have yet to acquire an M1a...yours appears to be a fine specimen even if I prefer to see them naked and free from optics )

Maybe now that I know you have one I can come up there and take it. I will leave the scope for you.

 

[jayhawk]

I don't think it really matters. If people know you have guns, they know you have guns. I think most people here on INGO buy and sell stuff so quickly, it would be hard to keep up with the inventory list.

 

[SSGSAD]

Very nice collection. We have similar tastes (although I have yet to acquire an M1a...yours appears to be a fine specimen even if I prefer to see them naked and free from optics )

Maybe now that I know you have one I can come up there and take it. I will leave the scope for you.

I said something like this, and someone posted all kinds of "nice info" just from the pics... THEY knew exactly where I was !!!!! COMPUTERS, WOW !!!!!

 

[Que]

I said something like this, and someone posted all kinds of "nice info" just from the pics... THEY knew exactly where I was !!!!! COMPUTERS, WOW !!!!!

Online predators can determine where posted photos and videos were shot

Post photos online? 7 safety tips - family privacy & Internet - MSN Money

 

[JTinIN]

Photos taken with iphones may have the GPS coordinates imbedded in them. Could tell what part of the main line one of the guys was setup with with his machine guns ...

 

[printcraft]

Me too. It was great times until a few got just a bit to spunky and now they are gone.

Operative word.

 

[malern28us]

I think I "freak out" too much but its no ones business what I own. I am guilty of posting pictures in the past though. Lesson learned

 

[GunSlinger]

Just do what I and my wife do. We live in a huge motor home and never spend two nights in the same state! We're always on the [STRIKE]run[/STRIKE] road.


Don't own a cell phone, gps, and only use an old Sunoco US road map from 1968 to determine our daily route. I only connect to the web via sat-net and only on random days and times.


At night we park out in the boonies and I set out my claymores and trip lines after I've determined my firing lanes for the infra-red triggered full-auto .50 cals. (no matter how many times one hears the .50's go off in the middle of the night it still makes you set up wide eyed in bed, but trust me we've never shot anything we didn't eat!)


Even if I told everyone what our motor home looked like you couldn't find it because I change all the camo decals daily to blend in with our enviro.


If ya can find me, fool my infra-red full auto .50's and then get past the trip wired claymores you still have to get through all the armor plate before you can get in...then you have to get past MoFo our guard grizzly and my wife and her sawed off 10 guage...then there's me with my thumb taped to a dead-mans switch so if I loose my grip the whole motor home goes off because of the half ton of C-4 built into it's chassis.


If you're still alive and breathing after all of that you can have whats left of my Marlin model 60 that I keep in my under the bed safe...if the safe will open that is.


Well, I better shut down my sat-net connection and spoof my IP again and adjust my tin foil hat just in case some 5 year old girl might be skip tracing my sat connection!

 

[cp009]

Just do what I and my wife do. We live in a huge motor home and never spend two nights in the same state! We're always on the [STRIKE]run[/STRIKE] road.


Don't own a cell phone, gps, and only use an old Sunoco US road map from 1968 to determine our daily route. I only connect to the web via sat-net and only on random days and times.


At night we park out in the boonies and I set out my claymores and trip lines after I've determined my firing lanes for the infra-red triggered full-auto .50 cals. (no matter how many times one hears the .50's go off in the middle of the night it still makes you set up wide eyed in bed, but trust me we've never shot anything we didn't eat!)


Even if I told everyone what our motor home looked like you couldn't find it because I change all the camo decals daily to blend in with our enviro.


If ya can find me, fool my infra-red full auto .50's and then get past the trip wired claymores you still have to get through all the armor plate before you can get in...then you have to get past MoFo our guard grizzly and my wife and her sawed off 10 guage...then there's me with my thumb taped to a dead-mans switch so if I loose my grip the whole motor home goes off because of the half ton of C-4 built into it's chassis.


If you're still alive and breathing after all of that you can have whats left of my Marlin model 60 that I keep in my under the bed safe...if the safe will open that is.


Well, I better shut down my sat-net connection and spoof my IP again and adjust my tin foil hat just in case some 5 year old girl might be skip tracing my sat connection!

that was entertaining!!!