andyt andyt:
It is to the gun nuts who say they can keep their arsenals safe, then have this happen.
In military circles and in firearms parlance the difference between a collection and an arsenal is that a collection is primarily composed of several firearms of varying types.
An arsenal would be composed primarily of several individual examples of only a few types of firearms.
So a guy who has a few dozen long guns and hand guns of varying manufacture and model would have a collection.
Someone else with an
equal number of firearms but where the rifles are of only one type (like Ar-15) and the handguns of only one type (M1911) would be an arsenal.
Very few people have actual arsenals. In all my time I've only seen
one in private hands.