I own a Papa Nambu (Deactivated) that my Great Grandfather brought home after his service in the Pacific.

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  1. I own a Finnish Tikka T3 .308W, it cost me just over 10.000 DKK (~1400€). There is really no story to it, other than I use it for hunting. I used to hunt more regularly, but since my paternal grandfather died a couple of years ago (Winter 2019-2020,) I haven’t really been out hunting. One would assume it could’ve been the perfect lockdown hobby, and it sure would’ve been, but I just never really got anything arranged.

    Other than that, I don’t own any weapons. I’ve been able to borrow other guns, for example for hunting fowl, but I don’t own anything other myself.

  2. I don’t own any guns, but growing up my father had a .22 LR Sako rifle. I couldn’t tell you the exact model, but it was probably from the 80s, small bolt action rifle. Very fun and easy to shoot. If I was to buy a gun, I’d definitely get a bolt action .22 like that. For target shooting.

    >I own a Papa Nambu (Deactivated)

    I’d actually love to get something like that, even deactivated. Late 19th century, early 20th century pistol. Like a Nambu, a Luger, C96, stuff like that. They’re just so cool, mechanically interesting, and the designs are very beautiful and sort of weird. You’re so used to seeing the typical black pistol these days, those old pistols look really unique next to them. I don’t know why, but I have this dream of owning a gold damascened Luger. I think it’s the Toledo style of damascening that has these beautiful Arabic style geometric designs, just gets me going.

  3. I own an arming sword. How did I get it? I was in Prague, there was that shop, there was the many beers and when I woke up again on the next day in my hotel room there it was. I thought it was rather funny when the Czechh border guards asked me whether I carried any weapons and I truthfully told them “Sword”, to which they looked at each other and asked “don’ know Sword”. And I told them “big knive”. To which they shrugged and waved me through. Hell was I lucky that the Austrian guard disn’t even look at my passport.

  5. I don’t own a gun, nor do I wish to, but I do have an old-school bow that’s probably still lying around somewhere in my parents’ house. I used it for casual target practice in the garden

  6. My father has got a beretta hunting shotgun. It’s very convenient as we can always give him ammo as a gift. It’s quite difficult to think of gifts for older men. They don’t want anything.

  7. custom build 1911, all done by myself except couple of things I can’t do at home like nickel coating.

    H&K USP, nothing special with this one, just my first gun purchased almost 30 years ago.

    used to have more guns including plenty of rifles but that is just history now

  8. Rifles, shotgun and a pistol.

    There is no real story behind them. I loved to shoot the 7×64, Steyr as it has great impact on all the usual game like boar, elk, chamois. But ammo became rather expensive recently so now I mainly use a Steyr m12 .308 with silencer.

  9. It’s not mine really, but also it is mine sort off. An HK 416, but only since im in the Home Guard. It does miss one very important piece though, mainly the whole bolt group assembly. A safety measure since the time when you got to have the whole gun with all parts at home…yeah…not exactly a perfect match back in the days when nearly every man was in the Home Guard.

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    It might not be hard to get the parts if you really wanted though, can be a bit scary tbh.

  10. Not much of a story, I simply enjoy shooting and mechanical engineering.

    I own 7 guns, a Remington New Army black powder revolver, a WWII era Mosin bolt-action rifle, 2 9 mm pistols (I’m carrying one of them right now), a cheap semi-auto shotgun made in Turkey (it’s fun at the range), a semi-auto Sa 61 Scorpion, and a semi-auto Serbian AK clone.

    Shooting is pretty popular hobby here in the Czech Republic, getting a licence requires a passing a background check, no mental issues, and passing a test similar to that for a driving licence. You don’t need any training. If you pass the test, you get any licence you applied for, including self-defense, which allows you to carry a gun.

  11. I own a hk91 since its a cool gun. I have 2 ar 15 that I shoot ipsc with. I have 6 pistols because i want them.
    Other guns: 2 shotguns 2 antique rifles. 3 bolt action rifles. I Hunt quite a bit. And “compete” in ipsc when there is matches close by. My favorite gun is my rifle lenght ar 15, with my suppressed tikka t3 308 a close second

  12. I’ve a Gamo revolver, it’s not a firearm, it uses air but it’s a good one and it uses cal. 4,5 (.177) mini-bullets. It can be used to hunt small animals but I would never do that.

    When I was a kid we all had airsoft guns (with that plastic balls), that was really fun cause because of their low quality they couldn’t hurt that much (I remember my father shooting himself in the arm to check if I was allowed to play with it with my friends).

    I just grew up and wanted something better, it’s really nice for shooting cans or bottles at 20-30 meters, it’s silent and light. We live in Madrid but have the old family countryside house in Cuenca, so the Gamo is there cause I don’t feel myself comfortable with that at home, I consider mine kind of a toy for adults but I still don’t like guns.

    Air carbines with that ammunition can be seen in rural areas, were hunting is more frequent.

  13. Apparently, my granddad’s old WW2 gun is still somewhere in the attic. He never gave it back he said.

  14. I own 17 guns and 18 soon. AR15, FAL, VZ58, CAL, SVT40, 9mm AUG, Skorpion, Glock19, …

    VZ58 was the first rifle i bought and it was when buying guns transformed from full to semi was no big deal so it’s a new from surplus one that i only paid 400€ for with 4 mags and a bayonet.

    9mm AUG is an ex Belgian police and is extremely fun to shoot.

  15. One of my favorites is a .22LR pump action Winchester model 1906. Bought it at an arms fair and it was in a terrible condition, last cleaned years ago. Had to replace the extractor(see diagram [here](https://www.gunpartscorp.com/gun-manufacturer/winchester/rifles-win/1906-win)) and for doing so completely dismantled it, ordering the part from a US website was easy but boy, customs clearance for a firearm part by a private person was a PITA! That rifle is a pleasure to shoot, precise, eats any ammunition. The funny thing is that pump action rifles are forbidden at the range of the club I’m a member of, much trouble with 12 gauge, installations suffering. Still can shoot mine but by times some people voice objections.

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