I don’t even care about that anymore. Used to, now I just see it as befitting the long arch of history. I hold stewardship in high esteem, but most treasures fall through the cracks into the hands of the unworthy.
History moves on, the guns still get shot and used in a life post-war. They can’t stay frozen in the past, carefully guarded in the back of some boomer’s safe unshot until the day his grandchildren put them up at auction to spend another 4 decades in a climate controlled safe starting the cycle anew.
I’d rather the world’s rarest death’s head sniper variant K98 be brought home and used as a deer rifle for 80 years before being pressed into service as a last-ditch partisan gun than see the same thing meticulously oiled and wall hangared like a museum piece all its life. The old boomers aren’t the only ones making history, every mod and bubba’d up POS is a testament to the time and culture surrounding these things, too.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/8f345dda-39de-4f66-9f1f-49ce38d3688d