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It takes a good size library to collect guns. You can’t just run out and buy guns without reading and learning about them, and about the marketplace. Now, some people do, but they are the ones who usually get hurt because they don’t know what they are buying and they pay too much. Let’s face it. You can pay any kind of astronomical price for a gun. If you want it, but the guy who owns it doesn’t want to let go of it, he’ll put a very high price on it – and if you want it bad enough, you’ll have to pay that high price if you want to own it bad enough. I guess, in that way, it’s no different than if you collect automobiles.

I do believe that you’ve got to have an extensive library of books. I’ve probably got between 50 and 100 books about guns and I’ve read and studied most of them, especially the parts about what I want to collect or trade. Eventually your knowledge builds from just hanging around collectors, and buying and selling a few guns.

I don’t think I started off collecting and decided, “Well, I’m going to just collect Pythons.” Of course, I don’t collect Pythons. That’s a new gun, but some guys do collect them because they like them.