Quoted: Can I get a judge's ruling on this?

IMHO.....Assortment! A nice one at that.

One safe full.

Quoted: Quoted: Can I get a judge's ruling on this? IMHO.....Assortment! A nice one at that.

Thanks Stony, I forgot to mention too, that I have bayos for everything that has a lug.

A collection might be considered 'more than needed' - Meaning that you have more than one firearm to fill a specific role.

But, that's not exactly correct... I would say a more accurate definition, or at least a add-on to the above would be: More than you (can) use.

If gun number is >2, then it is a collection

According to the local paper that's an Arsenal.

A lot of interesting viewpoints expressed here on this subject...

Personally, I avoided the words collector and collection for years - I preferred arsenal, accumulation, etc. like others here.  I really didn't consider myself a collector, even when I started buying guns that I knew I would never employ in defensive or hunting capacities.  The thought of collectible or historically significant "safe-queens" was abhorrent to me - guns are meant to be shot, after all.

Eventually, my shooting bubbies who are privvy to my gun room convinced me that the terms collector and collection probably fit - even though I still prefer useful guns that I can carry & shoot to the more valuable pieces I've acquired.

My wife and I are well into 3 figures.  We didn't start out to accumulate so many, but we like & enjoy a wide variety of firearms and tend not to sell or trade any away anymore.  I don't have a picture of the whole lot, but I have several group shots of various categories of our firearms...

Most of our traditional ARs:


Most of our non-traditional ARs (and some works in progress):


Most of the AKs:


Our lever-action rifles:


Our 870s:


Our Mossbergs:


Most of the other shotguns:


The S&W revolvers:


The non-S&W revolvers:


Some of the .45s:



I am lacking good group shots of the "collector pieces," most of the semi-auto pistols, the .308s, the carbines, the bolt-actions, the .22s (we have a BUNCH of .22s ), etc., but you get the idea.  We love guns and we love shooting.  Maybe one day when I have a day off and no prior commitments (if such a day ever comes ) I'll try to pull ALL of them out and take one big group shot - something I've thought about but never taken the time to do.

Quoted: *if you own 1 - 5 guns your a beginner gun collector *10 - 16 guns is average *20 plus is more advanced *50 + is old timer

I'm 38...

Quoted:

[Cartman]...I hate you...[/Cartman]

I don't collect, I stockpile!

Quoted: I'd say 2, as long as they were collectible.  I have a lot of guns, but none of them are collectible. Just because I buy 100 stamps and put them in my desk drawer, I do not have a stamp collection.

Wow...that may be one of the wisest things ever said re: gun collections.

Wow hard shell that is a really nice collection.

1 would be a collection.  However, it would be very small.

Lets see...1,2,3...hmmm...I guess no matter how many, it's more rightly an "accumulation" than a "collection."  The word collection implies some kind of system.