Originally Posted By: Shotgunlover
Collecting implies taxonomy, historic documentaion and at some point opening the collection to bona fide researchers or even the public. How many "collectors" do that?

Gough Thomas had a name for those that are not true collectors.



That's quite a leap. "Collecting" implies no such thing. Not with guns nor with anything else. And the whats and the whys for collecting are as myriad as those who do the collecting.

A 'True" collector? What a load of horseshit, regardless of what Gough Thomas may have said. More like elitist crap (I'm on the inside, with the special handshake, and you are not.)

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia