[wterrell]

merc,

Where to begin?

I would suggest that you start yourself on the right road by purchasing a few books. If you lurk around this website very long, you are going to purchase pistols. Collecting fever is a consumption, and will do much damage to you if you do not harness and control this desire for acquisitions. To do this, you must be knowledgeable of Lugers.
We have quite a few expert researchers on this forum. Published authors, unpublished authors, and those currently compiling manuscript pages, as we speak.
I suggest this to you so that you will not be disappointed in any purchase that you may make and then have to turn around and sell it after learning that you are not happy with an ignorant purchase.

Next, I suggest that you procure a digital camera. The very first thing for which the members of this forum are going to ask is a picture. (They have very little imagination and must be shown a thousand words at once.)