Consumerism and the AR15 - Are we here to shoot or to buy?

[docsherm]

.....hmmm......

Maybe....maybe that’s the final redpill.
The AR Methadone for all this dragon chasing.
A solid 12.5 a red dot good 1-4 Optic, NOD crap, and torch.
Mini Can of your choice


Then we can all get lives

That is what I did....... and I fixed it for you.........

[Esq.]

The AR15 is Barbie for men. Some just can't resist a closet full of shoes......

[RKB Armory]

I'm a big believer in selling most of the stuff that you don't use. With any luck, you'll spend that money on training and ammo before you have a chance to buy more unneeded things.

[Biggy]

It is pretty much the same way with golf clubs, fishing poles, clothes , shoes, knives,etc, etc, etc. The gun industry would be a whole lot smaller, fewer companies, fewer gun industry jobs, fewer gun owners, less NRA members and less money to fight the anti gunners with. Why have a SHOT SHOW and why try and better anything? Spend your money the way you want, but spend it wisely. My father did with new cars, trips, clothes, new home. Now it's pretty much all gone and he is 94 and sitting in a nursing home at $9,000. a month.

[Strikefirst]

I don't normally post actually this is post 1! but this thread caught my eye. I sold an upper a while back and just finished putting together an upper with a colt socom 14.5 factory pinned a2x.

I own 3 AR's my wife 1 and my daughter 1.

I have a 12" SBR, 14.5" and a 16". I can already tell the 16" will get less trigger time. My next purchase will be a can. I can't imagine needing another AR.

[jpmuscle]

The reality is this shit really doesn’t matter guys, atleast beyond an extent passed the necessity to protect ones self, family, or if one is a professional gun carrier, etc and requisite skill set required thereof.

Hobbies are great and all but life is short.
Love is fleeting.
and true happiness is elusive.



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[grizzlyblake]

Yeah, besides those who carry a rifle for a living it's all just wankery if you distill it down enough.

I guess you could just get down to true needs.

Get a Glock 19, Toyota Corolla, three pairs of Dockers, four Kohls brand polo shirts, a pair of Sketchers easy fit sneaker-loafers, and a one bedroom apartment.

I'm glad I don't live in that reality.

[26 Inf]

Yep, the internet, heck, the world as a whole, is full of folks telling others how to live their lives:

Some man's come he's trying to run my life, don't know what he's asking
When he tells me I better get in line, can't hear what he's saying
When I grow up, I'm gonna make him mine, these ain't dues I been paying

How much does it cost?
I'll buy it!
The time is all we've lost
I'll try it!
He can't even run his own life,
I'll be damned if he'll run mine--sunshine

As long as you put some thought into whatever you are doing, how it impacts others in your life, etc.

Somehow I don't see any need for me to be all over NODS or squad radios. But if it trips someone else's trigger have at it, just don't be telling me what to do.

[Pappabear]

To be able to do it all over again. Fk most of us could lose 5 AR's and not even notice it. Its flat out stupid. I haven't bought an AR in quite some time. But don't I wish I could dump 5 of them and have a KAC SR25, that I dont need. And God help us if we have another scare, per se.

I really need to look into NV, I understand its come a long way and prices are not as inane as years gone by. I have zero NV and all this other craptastic shit I don't need.

PB

[26 Inf]

I have zero NV and all this other craptastic shit I don't need.

PB

See, you feel a need I don't feel, and it's all good.