Re the elitist thing.

Hoarding has an effect on prices. Many are prevented from owning one good gun because a few accumulate/hoard a whole bunch and prices climb beyond the reach of non elitists.

Guns are parts of a collective industrial culture. Preventing access to those that study it, even enjoy it, without owning is probably a lot more elitist than what Gough Thomas had implied.

Access can be the relatively cost free act of posting (anonymously for the security conscious) photos of those hallowed collections, and there is not much of that going on.