On: Yikes: Gun Sales up 39% this year

[klump5]

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 "Guns are just tools".

[cpr → klump5]

And there are no tool collectors? I also collect beautiful tools. (E.g., old timber-framing drills.)

[klump5 → cpr]

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.