You sir are 100% correct.
Ill go in phases of gun interests. Half the year I might be geeking out over precision AR builds, then I'll be into milsurps, then it's tactical shotguns so on and so on.
I didn't really set out to collect US service rifles, just came across them and acquired them here and there until an M14 was missing.
Any military firearm I buy, ill buy everything I can for it, correct bayo, correct sling, cleaning kit, drag bag, whatever is available.
Went through a phase of 308 battle rifles. No Rome or reason to them, just guns that were cool when I was a kid in the 80s. I hunted forever for a nice FAL and landed a perfect inch pattern commonwealth rifle built on an Imbel reciever, correct in every way, then there's CETMES, polytechnic aks, mak90s, funny thing is, I like owning them more than I do shooting them. I'd be cool.if they hung up in a display really.