Not going to happen, or at least so I was told - he plans to panel one wall of the finished gun room in manuals, checkerboard-style, under some sort of clear plastic protection.

As much as I admire and respect him, and laud his prodigious research efforts, we are diametrically opposed on that issue, which I tend to see as unrestrained greed, though he now seems to be drawing a line (even publicizing same) at what he will pay, which I do not believe was always the case. There are a number of collectors who are doing without, so that he can have (what I feel to be) more than one person needs. He will tell you - and fairly so - that it is his money, and they just need to look harder. Joe does not suffer laziness, or lack of initiative! I cannot argue with that - I just wouldn't follow the same path.