It seems that I am being drawn to the realm of “gun nut” a lot faster than I expected. My wife and I got our permits this past week, but had already picked up a rather nice Springfield Armory XDm in December. Just in case anyone is wondering, buying a gun then dying to go out shooting in the great outdoors in the middle of winter isn’t the best idea. Lets just say we were met with several feet of snow at the usual spots. We did eventually get to a good location and had a blast. That is when I fell in love… With a gun. Obviously.

See, my wife quite enjoyed shooting the AK47 on our earlier trip, and even said that at some point we should totally get one. This trip I was introduced to the AR15. Now for those of you who aren’t gun nuts (which included me at that point) the AR15 is more or less a civilian version of the M16. Nice, black, semi-auto, amazingly accurate, fun as heck to shoot. After much discussing and deliberating, we decided to buy one. Sadly, this would be in the middle of the crazed gun buying rush from everyone thinking anything that goes boom will be banned from existence the minute Obama is sworn in as president… So after much searching, we ended up pre-ordering one from what is becoming my favorite gun shop, FBMG. Sadly, the current back order time is 2-6 months… So I get to be “patient” and await the delivery of my new baby.

But back to the whole “one step closer” thing. I’ve been carrying my XDm around the house for a while, and out in the world after I got my permit. I must say I’ve grown quite used to it a lot quicker than I expected. My wife has been thinking about the needs to have a gun around a lot more as well, which was assisted by a journey through the less than pretty parts of Local Larger City. So while we were out at a Photowalk this past Saturday (where she took over as lead photographer, so proud!) we stopped by the great FBMG as it was near by. They happened to have the XD Sub Compact gun that Kibeth has been thinking about getting for her concealed weapon… And well, who could resist a beautiful woman asking to buy serious firepower? So we bought her one… then ended up buying me one as well as we were running about looking for good ammunition. So, one step closer to being a gun nut… More guns in the house than people. And hopefully soon there will be twice as many guns than people. Then we’re looking at the beautiful 1911s… and an AK47 in addition to the AR15… It does end at some point right?