Reader Adub must be in a contemplative mood. He recently looked back at the long and winding road he took from his first gun purchase to where he is now and decided that flowcharting the process might be illustrative, if not instructive. We all have our own histories, ballistically speaking, whether you learned to shoot at your Grandpa’s knee and accumulate a lifetime of boomsticks or you bought your first gun in your 40’s and that constitutes your entire collection. What does your firearms path look like?