# My girlfriend's uncle is buying a gun this weekend... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090 "2011-03-09T20:51:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/1 "2011-03-09T20:51:20Z")
He has also started getting his savings converted into gold coins. He says he wants the gun so he’s prepared for the “Obama wars”. This is a man in his 50s in Northeast OH. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/2 "2011-03-09T20:59:13Z")
Whoa… Well…I certainly wouldn’t have any sort of political conversations with him. Seems a bit…nuts… ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/3 "2011-03-09T21:00:45Z")
What kind of gun? Pics? ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/4 "2011-03-09T21:02:55Z")
Well, better to go out with a bang than die unnoticed in a bush war. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/5 "2011-03-09T21:04:34Z")
Scary. And this whole thing about the Conservatives/Republicans keepign their money out of the stock market in order to prevent economic recovery during the current administration - isn’t that treason? ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/6 "2011-03-09T21:13:25Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > He has also started getting his savings converted into gold coins. He says he wants the gun so he’s prepared for the “Obama wars”. This is a man in his 50s in Northeast OH. 😕 Guns are a better economic investment than gold. The gold market is over due for a crash, but guns really do hold on to their value over long periods of time. Just tell him not to worry about the “Obama Wars”, in the history books they end with a picture of Jimmy Carter in a sweater. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/7 "2011-03-09T21:14:06Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > What kind of gun? Pics? I haven’t a notion. Maybe a Nokia? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/8 "2011-03-09T21:23:56Z")
Actually, I think Samsung makes the best selling guns these days. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/9 "2011-03-09T21:33:55Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > Well, better to go out with a bang than die unnoticed in a bush war. If you’re going to poach a line from Charlie Sheen the least you could do is attribute it. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/10 "2011-03-09T22:51:20Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > He has also started getting his savings converted into gold coins. He says he wants the gun so he’s prepared for the “Obama wars”. This is a man in his 50s in Northeast OH. 😕 Practically a hop, skip and jump from [Camp Perry, OH.](http://www.cplcc.com/) Be downright un-American of him not to own a gun, living so close. What did he decide upon? Hope he practices. And stays away from any boating accidents… Are the Obama wars going to be like the Clone Wars, only with better direction and an actual plot? ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/11 "2011-03-09T23:07:14Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > Practically a hop, skip and jump from [Camp Perry, OH.](http://www.cplcc.com/) Be downright un-American of him not to own a gun, living so close. > > What did he decide upon? Hope he practices. And stays away from any boating accidents… Are the Obama wars going to be like the Clone Wars, only with better direction and an actual plot? But Obama is a clone. That explains the lack of a birth certificate, and the three hundred or so social security numbers he has. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/12 "2011-03-09T23:31:40Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > He says he wants the gun so he’s prepared for the “Obama wars”. I’m sorry, the Obama wars? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/13 "2011-03-09T23:43:07Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I’m sorry, the Obama wars? I took it to mean the civil conflicts that shall erupt from the dissolution of American society that the Obama presidency has made imminent. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/14 "2011-03-09T23:45:57Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > If you’re going to poach a line from Charlie Sheen the least you could do is attribute it. I quite like Mr. Sheen ( and am \*sceptical \*regarding the latest brouhaha, which seems a trifle manufactured ); but this may be a case of great minds thinking alike. Not that I have goddesses hanging around, though. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/15 "2011-03-09T23:47:26Z")
Man some people really really don’t like having a black president. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/16 "2011-03-10T00:00:17Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I’m sorry, the Obama wars? They took place right after the Clone Wars in the Star Wars universe. It was when Vader and the stormtroopers were given Order 69 and eliminated all the non-white people in the galaxy; a job they were still finishing 20 years later during the final battle in ROTJ. So clearly the OP’s girlfriend’s uncle is a time-traveling dimension-hopper. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/17 "2011-03-10T00:08:35Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > They took place right after the Clone Wars in the Star Wars universe. It was when Vader and the stormtroopers were given Order 69 and eliminated all the non-white people in the galaxy; a job they were still finishing 20 years later during the final battle in ROTJ. > > So clearly the OP’s girlfriend’s uncle is a time-traveling dimension-hopper. Right. Better check his midichlorian count. Wonder if he knew Mace Windu? Clearly he’s a master of Jedi mind tricks; how else did the [PPACA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act) get passed? > [@](#): > > [Hand wave] You don’t need to see his birth certificate. These aren’t the exemptions you’re looking for. Wisconsin employees can continue to get their pensions. Move along. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/18 "2011-03-10T00:17:11Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I took it to mean the civil conflicts that shall erupt from the dissolution of American society that the Obama presidency has made imminent. No no no. It’s going to be a popular uprising like what is going on in the middle east because everyone knows that obama is really a muslim and wants an islamist state and so the people have to rise up just like in egypt and libya… AND IT’S GOING TO BE UTTER CHAOS AND IF HE DOESN’T GET A GUN THEN THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL BECOME SHARIA LAW… [big gasp] Whew. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/19 "2011-03-10T00:33:45Z")
> [@Vlad\_Igor](#): > > AND IT’S GOING TO BE UTTER CHAOS AND IF HE DOESN’T GET A GUN THEN THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL BECOME SHARIA LAW… Doesn’t that mean they can’t find my gun because I’ve hidden it under my wife’s burka? ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090/20 "2011-03-10T03:15:28Z")
> [@attack from the 3rd dimension](#): > > doesn’t that mean they can’t find my gun because i’ve hidden it under my wife’s burka? damn aclu!!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-girlfriends-uncle-is-buying-a-gun-this-weekend/574090.md?page=2)