Walkthrough Of My $1 Million Gun Collection
BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 8 months ago
Nice collection. Some of the expense is related to the Title 2 weapons. Be aware that part of the reason that the NFA and GCA hasn’t been repealed is the money collectors have invested into those weapons.
On the other hand, even without the Title 2 weapons, this is still a very large collection.
On March 28, 2022 at 11:38 pm, Whiskey Tango Texas said:
Waiting for a tour of the ammo and reloading room.
On March 29, 2022 at 11:02 am, Ozark Redneck said:
Nice to see rich guys investing in guns instead of yachts, planes and islands.
On March 29, 2022 at 12:20 pm, ExpatNJ said:
Seen this before. Yes, very impressive. But, does he have an original Red Ryder BB gun? I didn’t see one.
Firearms collections are a big investment of time. They can also represent ‘stuff’ and worries: laws, maintenance, security, insurance, alarms, heirs/estate, etc. And, no, I’m not envious of this man in any way.
He uses the word “ridiculous” several times to describe what he has. So, I hope he keeps practical defensive guns on his belt, nightstand, and by his toilet …
“Beware the ‘one-gun-man’. He knows what he has, and knows how to use it.”
On March 29, 2022 at 12:38 pm, Red Man said:
One man economic engine!
On March 29, 2022 at 12:42 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Probably a lot of “hanger queens” there! Meaning, does he actually use all of those or just look at them and polish them once in a while? “Hanger queen” is an aviation term, by the way, for an aircraft which spends more being repaired or serviced or otherwise in the hanger, than on the runway or in the air.
On March 29, 2022 at 1:05 pm, Herschel Smith said:
I see it as legitimate as collecting baseball cards, coffee cups (which I do), or books.
Just more expensive.
I’m sure it’s difficult to shoot all of those. But I do love the machinery regardless of the shooting. It’s hard not to admire the machinery.
On March 29, 2022 at 7:05 pm, pdxr13 said:
Even more impressive is a basement attached to a loading dock featuring pallets of modern premium ammo packaged for direct burial. The attached armory would have dozens or hundreds of identical weapons and thousands of magazines. Work benches for a half dozen admirers to keep it all running
This video is a history of world guns, but not useful for militia use.
Agree that powerful men love the exclusivity of Class 3 weapons like M240B and M2, which should be affordable by neighborhood teams, not more costly than all the combined property in the neighborhood.
On March 29, 2022 at 11:11 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Re: “I see it as legitimate as collecting baseball cards, coffee cups (which I do), or books. Just more expensive.”
Oh yes, absolutely…. an uncle on my wife’s side, recently deceased, got into collecting Old West firearms more than fifty years ago, when they were still relatively plentiful and cheap. A few years ago when I last saw his collection, it was of museum quality and housed in a special fireproof secure room in his basement. Not sure what happened to it after his death; maybe auctioned off or bound for a museum? Have to ask about that at the next family gathering….
Re: “I’m sure it’s difficult to shoot all of those. But I do love the machinery regardless of the shooting. It’s hard not to admire the machinery.”
Concur there, too. The founder of Knights Armament, Reed Knight, collected so many historically-significant firearms during his successful and profitable career that he was able to open an actual museum. His pal Jerry Miculek drops by to wring some of his pieces out on Knight’s private range. Such as J.M. shooting one of those rare select-fire Artillerie Inrichtingen AR10s owned by the Portuguese back in the 1960s-1970s. And yes, in case you are wondering…. Jerry loved it!
On March 30, 2022 at 12:05 pm, elysianfield said:
Georgiaboy61;
Hope I’m not talking out of class here, but…I actually toured Mr. Nights collection in the early 90’s…at the time he had several hundreds of machine guns. As part payment of a project with Colt Firearms, he acquired the entire Colt Machine gun collection…from Browning’s first prototype to gatling guns, Mansfield guns, toolroom prototypes, etc. Want to see some of the collection? Just open any Smith’s “Small Arms of the World” and peruse the sections on weapons development…he had it all.
On March 30, 2022 at 5:11 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ elysianfield
Re: “Hope I’m not talking out of class here, but…I actually toured Mr. Nights collection in the early 90’s…at the time he had several hundreds of machine guns.”
Hey, at least in Knight’s case, he is pro-firearms and pro-gun. There are also plenty of allegedly “anti-gun” people who own massive collections of full-auto and select-fire arms. Noted film producer and billionaire Steven Spielberg, who has been prominent in gun control campaigns on the political left for a very long time, as it turns out – has one of the largest privately-held machine gun collections in the world. Can you spell “hypocrisy”? Turns out that he loves guns, even machine guns… he just doesn’t want the great unwashed having them!
Getting back to Reed Knight, from what little I’ve seen of him, he seems to be a good guy whose success has not gone to his head.
On March 30, 2022 at 6:54 pm, Herschel Smith said:
Steven Spielberg only believes that the monied people should have nice things. The peasants should not.
And it’s not by accident that Eugene Stoner went to work for Reed Knight when he left his other job (I believe it was at Colt, I don’t think he had anything in between).
Of course, affording a firearm from Knight’s Armament is nearly impossible.