Strange habits of Pakistani gun buffs.

Glock: Rich man's gun  

Two types of people dominate my friend’s cycle. One who have large studies overstuffed with books and second who have large collections of weapons.
My limited income source have forced me to limit my gun collection. My financial situation turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I can’t dream of buying more guns, but I do buy a lot of (shotgun) ammunition and practice shooting.
Many of my firearm friends are in buying mode only. I have a lawyer friend who buys a new gun worth Rs. 50,000 after every six months but rarely fires them. Having a large collection of firearms and not regularly using them is like an impotent person having a large harem of fine girls of diverse backgrounds.
Another friend of mine is a Glock collector. Glock is richman’s handgun in Pakistan. It costs around Rs 300,000. This Glock guy keeps his gun locked in his house and never carries them, thinking what if some on robs him of his expensive gun.
A landlord friend’s house was once robbed. The robbers took all their fine hunting weapons (Remington, Churchill and Beretta) along with other loot. This friend now keeps a loaded AK-47U in his entrance lobby.
Then there is my ex-boss and now a friend, who edits an English daily newspaper. Good ex-bosses endup becoming ex-employees’ friends. He keeps one handgun and carries it everywhere except where law prohibits. He is also a regular at Lahore pistol range. He claims to know his weapon like the back of his hand. He is the only person in my firearm friend’s circle, who has a practical approach towards weapons.
To me the people, who buy a weapon but don’t keep it in ready-to-use position, are wasting their time and money. Attribution: I got the idea of this post after reading a similar post at lawyer with a gun.

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Pakguns re-opens

Pakguns has re-opened last night. Its owner and administrator closed it down ten days ago, citing ambigious reasons. I was sad on it closure as it was the only platform in Pakistan, which has gathered highly educated people who are into gun hobby. The site advocates safe use of weapons and their availability in the market.

Here is its linke http://www.pakguns.com/

Right before the closure of the forum, a former and banned member of the Pakguns, opened another forum. The trafffic on the new forum forum.guns.pk, was low when Pakguns was running. After the closure of Pakguns, its members started to join http://www.forum.guns.pk/, thus increasing traffic on it.

I frequent these two forums but like the pakguns more as it has more information about weapons available in the local market, their prices and reviews. Its layout is easy to look at for prolonged time. People are courteous and welcoming.

Very few forums are available in Pakistan for gun enthusiasts as it is considered a dangerous hobby and often related with outlaws. These two forums aim at changing this social impression.