This year's Buy A Gun Day was pretty successful for Aaron the Liberal Slayer. Just like last year, I couldn't hold out until April 15th, and bought my M1 Carbine a few weeks early. Thursday just isn't a good day for gun shows, and I could not resist using the "gun-show loophole" to buy a rifle without a background check.

Getting me to buy another gun isn't very hard. When I have the money, and sometimes even when I don't, I'm always in the market for something. Here are just a few I'd like to pick up:

• M1 Garand - Nothing like a .30-06 WWII "assault weapon" to strike fear into the gun grabbers on the left. These are the guns that liberated Europe. I've never owned a .30-06, and looking at the price of ammo that's probably a good thing. I'm not too thrilled at having to stock another caliber of ammo, but I'll probably still pick one of these up in May. I'm traveling to Ohio so a stop off at the CMP store is definitely in order.

• .357 Magnum Revolver - On BAG day last year I picked up an inexpensive Taurus .38 revolver. It was my first and only revolver, and is a lot of fun to shoot. But I would still rather have a nice .357. A small frame revolver fits better into the ankle holster I wear during the summer, and the .357 packs a greater punch than the .38. Also it will shoot .38 ammo, so there isn't much of a problem picking up cheap "plinking ammo".

• Albanian SKS - Albanian SKS rifles are getting much harder to find. Back when I bought my Yugo SKS and for months afterward, I passed up on the Albanian model. Now, after not seeing them at any of the last 4 gun shows, I want one. It's not a real big priority, but I still wouldn't mind having one in the gun locker.

• .22 Revolver - This guy says that every man should have one, and that's good enough reason for me.

• Colt 1911 Pistol - I'm not sure what's with all the hoopla over the 1911. But with $1000, I could find out.

Now this is just a partial list, of course. There are a few other guns I wouldn't mind having, but they are so expensive they're on the long term wish list. (The Browning 1919 comes to mind.)