** NOTE **
Per snopes.com:
This collection has been associated with Charlton Heston but he had no such collection in his home. It has often been claimed to be that of Connecticut resident Bruce E. Stern, an attorney and active gun collector who belonged to several military- and firearm-related organizations and who also served on the NRA's board of directors, or Robert Starer, past president of Ramo Corporation, who is the proprietor of Historic Arms Corp. of Cape Charles, Virginia, but inquiries to representatives of both produced negative responses.
