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Several programs have been developed especially for gun collecting: NM Gun Collector, Gun Inventory, GunTracker, GunSafe and KollectAll, among others. [Editor’s Note: These and other collection management programs can be located for download or purchase through any web search site such as Google or Dogpile.]

KOLLECTALL

This is a generic “Collection Management Software.” It allows you to organize anything that you may be collecting, from books to stamps to guns, with everything in between. The program comes with some predefined “collections,” including guns.

Unfortunately, by trying to be all things to all collections and collectors, this program lacks several features of the more specialized programs. This generic philosophy shows up with the lack of dedicated help fields, fields that have predefined values from which to select. Also, the data entry form is organized in a strange way, where the various gun-related fields, which should be grouped together, are spread all over the form, in no rational order, at least for a gun owner. Being the “Jack of all trades” is not always the best approach.