"No offense, but if you have to ask, you are not enough of a collector for it to be worth the extra money it will cost you."

T Clark,

Prefacing an ill-thought statement with "no offense" is usually the habit of someone who's intent is quite the opposite. How do you presume to know what kind of collector I am and how the cost of a 3 inch revolver of my choice will burden me?

Thank you for the advice but I see no need to be qualified as a collector in order to ask the question and you added nothing to answer it.

In my contrary opinion, if I thought i needed $40,000 worth of purposeful guns before I became a "collector", I would be more worried for my personal safety than the allure of the model 66. And I think that if I only bought "shooters" and managed to spend that much money, I would be considered a collector by proxy.

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