This article (that everyone is linking to, and I’m not sure I entirely agree with) combined with this interesting tidbit of NRA history has me wanting to go out and buy a gun (again)… pacifist though I am in these modern times.
I think I would keep it in a locked up in a chest marked “To be opened in case of civil war.” Maybe with some appropriate Thomas Jefferson quote.
That would make you eccentric.
But I think it would be admirable.