"Parking money in guns", unless you are going into the business in some way, seems like a rather bad use of "investment" dollars. The comment above with regard to wholesale and resale is never more correct than with guns. That said, fine guns are an excellent way to spend recreation dollars. For the price of a very ordinary boat, you can get a very nice nice British game gun, or even one of those hideously over-valued parkers :-), and still have something equally useful twenty years from now. Your neighbor's bass boat, on the other hand, will be lucky to last anywhere near 20 and he will have re-engined it at least once.
So unless you are investing in a business that offers the opportunity for investment return, then I would think of the dollars put in guns as the wise use of dollars to support a hobby. That said, if you are simply looking for an excuse to justify spending money on fine guns, then that is another issue entirely. I have used them all, and "safe investment", particularly in a period of economic uncertainty, seems far more considered than the "deal of the century" or specialized need excuses. (And my wife sees through every one!)
