Occasionally I get an email where someone needs help. I'm not close enough to punch him in the head, or I would.
Surely many of us have gone through this. Below is the email and the picture file. Let us say a prayer for this horrid wretch. 

"I have an addiction.....I can't stop buying rifles, I'm in the process of buying a 32-40 highwall that I need really really badly, in fact I've needed it for the past 40 years or more. I think it's in my DNA. I should have become a drug addict, and then I'd have needles and stuff instead of all these damn guns. I used to criticize my father for having so many guns, but I'm really worse than he was. You need to punch me in the head. I buy bullet molds too. Are you looking for any bullet molds? I open drawers and find bullet molds that I have no idea where they came from. I like pistols too. 

Stop me!!!!!"

I to am an enabler.
Only one more???
I find that if I buy my gun for the month, early in the month, it mellows my urges...
Sorry Wes, there is no cure.

GT

Ye Gods and Little Fishes, I thought I was alone. I'm a classic insomniac, laying in bed staring into the darkness solving gun issues and plotting more of same. Even when I sleep I dream of the stuff - last night I dreamt about arguing with someone about bore diameters......

I should've called Westerner or cbashooter for help/advice.

If I had the finances which I don't I would have many more than I have so I sympathize. "It can be a habit an addiction" as Jimmy Stewart said in the movie The Shootist. My wife gave up on trying to keep up with my new purchases. If I bring a new one in the house she immediately asks where did you get that? I tell her what this old thing well I have had it for ages and it usually works. When I am gone I fear one of the biggest yard sales my neighborhood has ever seen...


JMH

A temporary cure is for him to stand with backside against one wall, bend over at the waist, then begin running as fast as he can until his head hits the other wall. Repeat until all thoughts are gone, or he's knocked himself out.
Way cheaper them professional help.

"When I am gone I fear one of the biggest yard sales my neighborhood has ever seen..."

....and she will be selling them for what you told her you paid for them 

Well Wes at least your son will appreciate many of your single shot rifles some day.

My sons only wanted the CPA rifles and barrels.
I had to dispose of all my Miller DeHass, 1885 Highwalls, Falling Block Works, Stevens 44 and 44 1/2, Meacham Hoch, Rolling Blocks, 1874 Sharps, BSA Martini Internationals, and numerous custom bolt action rifles when I was no longer able to leave the city or even go to a range.

However all those project rifles were an excellent investment and the buyers were ecstatic - wife got a new Subaru from the proceeds.

However every one of those rifles are still enjoyed in ones dreams even when ownership must change.

I can quit anytime I want to.   

I just don’t want to. 🤷🏻‍♂️