Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Ian McCollum over at Forgotten Weapons released a video about museums and collectors, and I thought it was a great piece of content to do a reaction video to it given my background in museums. He talks about whether or not an artifact belongs in a museum and even cautions about offending curators. Watch to find out my thoughts, and links to relevant videos and articles mentioned here are below.

Video I'm reacting to: youtube.com/watch?v=mO6F9CfgMg4
My presentation that Ian filmed: youtube.com/watch?v=BqJTRmOtiXM&t
Lithgow article, part 1: thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/03/15/australian-regulation-make-museum-guns-metal-blobs
Lithgow article, part 2:
thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/10/07/follow-up-australias-metal-blobs-museum-legislation

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