"Collecting" . . . "Accumulating" . . . "Acquiring" . . . "Hoarding" . . . people have interests - who knows the wherefore and the why? A lot of eggheads with fancy degrees that make a very good living analyzing things like this in others by only guessing or applying generalized observational methods with no real proof or concrete facts are rarely questioned, 'cause, after all - they're 'doctors' - they tell you why and even though a great portion of the time they know little or nothing factual (try to pin them down and watch the back pedaling and gyrations of rabbit hole explanations to justify their guesses) they're given deference and respect for all their 'knowledge'.
Well, I can play . . .
As a self trained analyst I diagnose mine as a deprived childhood where I wasn't given everything I wanted and the preponderance of 50's and 60's television programs consisting of WWII combat shows and movies, Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett shows, cop shows like "Highway Patrol", "N.Y.P.D.", "Adam 12", "The F.B.I.", "Hill Street Blues" (and on and on) as well as movies with Sam Spade, Peter Gunn, Mannix, Kojak, . . . and western horse operas from the likes of John Wayne, Richard Boone, Steve McQueen, James Arness, Chuck Conners, the Barclays and the Cartwrights and scads of others . . . and Cold War spy shows, both serious and send-ups where
all of the above often prominently featured fascinating firearms as main characters.
Whatever deep-rooted obsessions and compulsions afflict us humanoids, I find the above all more enjoyable than collecting buttons, the 'spoons of all 50 states', thimbles, or Hummel or Willow Tree figurines, or whatever some folks tend to 'collect'.
In times in the not-so-distant past homes were not built with a lot of closet space because people generally had a set of work clothes and their Sunday-go-to-meetin's which could alternately be hung on the nail on the back of the bedroom door when not in everyday use. Nowadays we own so many clothes and shoes we need to build on to house all that stuff.
So my "Official Diagnosis" and prescribed course of action for you,
Quickdraw67, is you're completely normal (at least in that respect, since I don't know you personally you may be crazy as a bedbug
) and you shouldn't fret about this particular issue. I further prescribe more range time and the association with similarly afflicted neer-do-wells as found here on the S&W Forum. We're all here for pretty much the same reasons . . . . "
Hello ! I'm NFrameFred and I'm an addict".
It's almost as much fun spending other people's money as it is my own.
