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Ergo: "gun collecting is demonstrative of collecting behavior, rather than treatment of the gun as purely a tool". You appear to contradict your statement that

• cpr 18y ago
  And there are no tool collectors? I also collect beautiful tools. (E.g., old timber-framing drills.)
  • klump5 18y ago
    There are tool collectors, but they are demonstrating "collecting behavior". In Boy Scouts we were taught to respect and appreciate guns as the very dangerous tools they are. I can personally only agree with your original statement: Guns -are- only tools, and should only be treated as tools.