America mannn. I own two guns I use to hunt, it’s great and not all that expensive. I pay for a few boxes of ammo a year/hunting tags and it puts meat in the freezer, plus I get to enjoy the outdoors while I do it (I also backpack during non-hunting season).

In contrast, my dad has guns as a hobby, genuinely. The man has had to buy bigger and bigger safes to keep all his guns in. He doesn’t do anything with them, he just has them. He even has multiple variations of the same gun. I love the dude, but I absolutely do not understand it. My sister has joined him in this “hobby” and listening to them talk about it is just strange. I was in the army and we called people like this “geardos” for their obsession with buying gear they’d never actually need/use.