“And Imelda Marcos had a battery of shoes...”
This gives me an idea. What if we collectively start referring to a collection of objects other than guns as an “arsenal”?
“And Imelda Marcos had an arsenal of shoes...”
The idea is that police and governments are in a habit of sensationalizing gun ownership by declaring “an arsenal”, even if that only means three small guns and a pocket knife. They do this precisely because they know that the word arsenal is underdefined, but sounds to the public usually worse than it is.
They do a similar stunt with “bomb making components” like wire, a kitchen timer, electrical tape, and pliers. Things only a bomb maker would have in their home.
In any event, I went to the grocery today and bought an arsenal of bananas, an arsenal of grapes, an arsenal of beer, etc. They had a “street value” of $50,000.
I have a gun libary and a book arsenal.