Seeing as how I’m travelling to the state capitol to show support for my civil rights on the subject of firearms, I think I will have to keep this in mind when I face the gun bigots.
Explaining the pleasure of collecting excellent condition examples of the astonishing engineering feats that are the firearms of the 19th and early 20th centuries, each with a story to tell, many having miraculously survived actual combat, to the gunhater would be like trying to explain the pleasure of accumulating a complete set of autographed first editions of your favorite author to an illiterate savage, incapable of viewing their pages as anything but toilet paper or kindling.
Vin Suprynowicz – Send in the Waco Killers – pp 366