This.

[634-5789]

[NQAS]

1. Sure looks like grooming to me (nt)

[SoonerPride]

2. Grotesque.

[markie]

3. "Texas never backs down"

what the fuck is wrong with people?

[StarryNite]

4. Just who are they hoping to impress?

[brush]

5. They should be so proud (not). That's ghoulish coming right after Uvalde.

[SYFROYH]

29. This picture was taken a while ago. Maybe a year ago.

I think a photographer went across the country looking for people to pose with their guns.

[In It to Win It]

6. They would buy a nuke if you let them

[DFW]

8. After showing off that kind of an arsenal

I'm not sure they don't have one in their basement already.

[dweller]

7. Looks like a job

for ATF to investigate … how can those be stored safely?
There’s at least 2 kids in that gungeon hellhole


✌🏻

[LizBeth]

9. I am thinking all that would be good for the kids college fund

If I had that kind of money to throw away… wow and they are impressed with themselves instead of seeing their stupid

[Patterson]

15. College? Are you kidding?

[LizBeth]

16. ;)

[yardwork]

30. The house looks poorly maintained and the kids don't look healthy.

[LizBeth]

32. They do not, especially the little girl.

[betsuni]

41. They look terrible, eat only processed/junk food.

[yardwork]

43. Looks that way. This photo documents a lot of America's ills.

[EarlG]

10. This is what the Second Amendment in the 21st Century is really all about

Good old American capitalism.

It's legal to sell guns. Gun manufacturers want to make the biggest profits they can by selling as many guns as they can. There are a limited number of people who want to buy guns, so its in the manufacturers' interests to sell as many guns as possible to those people.

To this end, they spend millions of dollars on marketing to convince people who already own guns that they need to own more guns. They do this through classic marketing techniques, mostly using fear of either physical threats (immigrants, criminals, BIG GUBMINT) or of not looking cool (you don't want Jimbob to make fun of you for showing up at the range without the latest weapons and attachments, do you?)

Like any good old American capitalists, they buy politicians who will pass laws that will help them sell more guns (or block laws that will prevent them from selling more guns). Regulations put a dent in profits, so there are fewer and fewer regulations. Not even relentless school massacres can get in the way of profits.

21st Century gun culture has little to do with the Second Amendment, beyond gun manufacturers using it as means to ensure that they can continue to sell as many guns as possible.

[betsuni]

42. It's Republicans.

Ideology, not a few thousand dollars.

[yardwork]

44. I think you're right about this and it raises another question.

How much of the revived white supremacy ideology that's raging now was created by the gun manufacturers and NRA as a marketing strategy?

[patphil]

11. These are two seriously f*ked up parents.

I agree with other poster's concerns about gun safety in this household.
Where do you put all those guns? Do they have a whole wing in their house dedicated to guns?
It's downright pathological.

[rsdsharp]

12. You might want to sell a few of those,

and buy a smoker that’s not at risk of burning down the deck and taking the house with it.

[lpbk2713]

13. They are endangering those children.

That's way too many firearms to manage safely.

[rubbersole]

14. Poor kids...

I wonder how many times that boy has thought about shooting up his school?

[kacekwl]

17. I would like to

instigate a RED FLAG investigation on these parents. ASAP please. Who do I call ?

[onethatcares]

18. What would a numbers check on all that show?

and what the fuck are they afraid of?. People looking for a better life? People that want to have abortions?

there's some really nasty mind games inside those skulls, I hope they're not my neighbors.

[Wounded Bear]

19. Is it wrong of me to wish they were visited with a sudden downpour?

[MerryBlooms]

20. Out of curiosity, where did you find that photo?

[Pompoy]

25. Gabriele Galimberti

"More guns than people in the USA | The Americans with Gabriele Galimberti"
https://madeinperpignan.com/plus-darmes-que-dhabitants-aux-usa-the-ameriguns-avec-gabriele-galimberti/

[Liberal In Texas]

35. I went and looked. This is in Austin, but many from all over the country.

And a lot of diversity, surprisingly enough.

I wonder if this dude isn't a gun dealer working out of his house and this is his stock.

Still, very strange to have that many weapons.

[634-5789]

38. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gun-loving-americans-and-their-firearms-collections-bptrwctb6

[Ferrets are Cool]

21. This is no more than a hunch, but one suspects those kids are taught to hate

liberals, democrats and anyone who doesn't look like them.

[HAB911]

22. CHILD ABUSE

[spanone]

23. Poor kids. Didn't have a chance.

[anarch]

24. they forgot to point the ones on the roof at the kids

looks like most of the others are pointed at them though; must be some kind of "libertarians" I bet.

[electric_blue68]

28. And I Didn't even See the one's on the roof! Gah!

[electric_blue68]

26. Unless (those who'd know) at least some of those are kind of rare, unusual guns 4 collector types...

this looks pretty obscene to me! Yikes! 😳

[JanMichael]

31. I guess Grandpa needed something to attract the wifey, huh?

[csziggy]

33. C'mon, you never know when you might need to kill some underground prehistoric graboid!

I've got to say - the family in the OP has Burt Gummer out gunned.

[LeftInTX]

34. Joel, 44, & Lynne, 43, in Austin, Texas, with their children and 80 per cent of their gun collection

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gun-loving-americans-and-their-firearms-collections-bptrwctb6

He's only 44????

[Hekate]

36. Why do the windows have holes in them?

Why do they have a million dollars in guns’n’ammo out there (and on the roof) and not enough money to paint that place?

[pansypoo53219]

37. BUTBUTBUT they aren't FONDLING their death babies.

[Tickle]

39. good lord!

I almost choked. That is ridiculous and should be illegal!

[GoCubsGo]

40. There's your mental illness.

And, I'm not just referring to the hoarding aspect of this. AFAIC feeling the need to own any of this things is a mental illness in my book, let alone owning dozens of them. The two adults in that photo belong in a psychiatric hospital. Those poor kids.

[dalton99a]

45. Info on family:

Joel, Lynne, Paige and Joshua (44, 43, 5 and 11 years old) – Austin, Texas
(They don’t want to show their last name – The firearm you see in the photo are just 80% of the whole collection)

Both Joel and Lynne were born and raised in Austin, Texas. They met 14 years ago and they have been together since then. They define themselves “compulsive buyer and serial collectors”.

Joel collects watches, motorbikes, RC cars and various other things. Lynne collects mostly jewels and guns. More than 90% of the guns present in their house belong to her. “I love guns and I love to shot them every day. I can’t stop buying them. I am not sure about the exact number but I probably have more the 170 firearms. I think from the moment I bought the first one I then kept buying around 5-6 guns every month and I think I’ll keep buying them with the same rhythm in the future.” She says laughing. “I also love to customize them and make every piece unique. This is also why I have never been able to sell any of my guns”.

Lynne and Joel have two children, Joshua and Paige. “Joshua is 11 now. He started to shoot guns when he was 6. Now he has his own gun, which he built by himself. He’s really proud of that. He has made it by assembling pieces that he have chosen from an online catalog. Sometimes we also let Paige shot some guns, but she’s still too small to be able to handle one alone”, she says.

Lynne and Joel run a business together, they are dealers for luxury watches and jewels.
Contacts: Lynne – [e-mail] [phone] Joel – [e-mail]

https://americandigest.org/the-ameriguns/