10 AR’s
10 Glock 9mm’s
10 Remington 870’s and
10 Ruger 10/22’s
A number is inherently personal thing. We can try to come up with supporting work to justify it but at the end of the day I think that X is our magic number because it makes us happy.
The three big thoughts I have about this are A) Personally I would be more inclined to do a ratio of core guns to less essential guns. In this case I would say that you probably need more fighting guns like AR’s and Glocks than Ruger 10/22’s and 870’s. I would probably do like 1x AR and Glock to maybe .5 of plinkers and shotguns. Ditto tiny pocket handguns and hunting rifles. So if you have 2 Glocks and AR’s you would have 1 each shotgun and 10/22. YMMV. B) Focus less on guns than more holistically on systems. You don’t need pistol #3, you need an urban cache near work. You don’t need rifle and pistol #4, you need a red dawn kit up at grandpas place. Systems involve a bunch of other stuff beside just the guns. C) In figuring out your magic number it is probably relative to the places you can stash guns. At some point stashing another gun in the safe doesn’t help much. Set up the place for the gun to go and then buy the gun (as well as the other stuff).
Thoughts?