DMK
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The same reason why I'd love a garage full of 60's muscle cars if I could afford it. The same reason some collect art. The same reason some collect toys of their childhood.i've actually never understood why some people want so many guns.
i much prefer to buy ammo and shoot the guns i have, than to collect so many guns i couldn't possibly have time to shoot them all.
It could be an admiration of the technology. It could be a fascination with history. There are guns you shoot regularly and guns you collect. Only a small percentage of my collection gets shot regularly. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy the ones that don't.
If I had excess funds, I'd love a long barreled 44 Magnum Model 29 like Dirty Harry had. I have no utilitarian need for such a large and powerful handgun. I would probably only rarely shoot it. Yet, it still holds a fascination to me (and many others for the same reasons). That's just one example of many.