A small town paper in Massachusetts is asking "how many guns is too many?" Life long gun owner, 66-year old Chris Tietgens, has an extensive collection. He doesn't understand the gun grabbers who wax rhetorically about why people need so many guns, need certain types of guns, or need any guns at all. But then living in the middle of the cuckoo's nest that is New England, he probably scratches his head a lot.

The ability of people to sit around and casually discuss firearms has disappeared during the last few years, said Tietgens.

Someone please rescue this man. Then there's this:

His comments come two weeks after Templeton Police arrested Scott Tardiff, 37 , after he turned over 16 firearms, ammunition, and an expired license to police when they served him with a restraining order.

Tardiff was charged with firearm possession without an firearm identification card, possession of a large capacity firearm, improper storage of a firearm, and improper storage of a large capacity firearm.

None of that is illegal in Southern states like Virginia (or what I like to call Free America). FOID card? Don't have one, don't need one. Large capacity firearms? I've got several normal capacity magazines (with 30 to 40 rounds being normal). I don't have any of those 100 round beta mags, but that's not what they mean. They mean anything over 10 rounds. Improper storage? In my book that means storing it unloaded. (An unloaded handgun is a rock, an unloaded rifle is a stick.) Improper storage of a large capacity firearm? How can you charge a guy for improperly storing something he's not allowed to have to begin with?

Tardiff, a former Leominster resident, was arrested within yards of Baldwinville Elementary School.

GASP!! How many yards; one, ten, a thousand?

This concerned many parents, who said they were upset by the fact that the guns were not locked away...

Heh. And I get upset when children are not locked away.

And while state gun laws regulate the sale, the possession, the carrying and the types of guns a person can own, they don't regulate the number of weapons someone can own.

I'm sure some Massachusetts lawmaker is busy figuring out a way to regulate that. 'Arsenal' laws have been on the Brady wishlist for years.