I own 50 guns, I am an NRA Patron member, on the NRA Members Council of Solano County. My Members Council signed up over 700 members in 2006, our best year.
That is awesome, PPK! Seven hundred new members is a testament, indeed.
I am no longer as active, since I moved to a land that has so few places to live where you can actually walk out, shoot your rifle and have your bullet fall on land that is not inhabited by idiots who want our guns taken away from us. Indiana is kind of over-populated, in my view.
I have almost as large a "collection" as you and pretty much the same if you count all my muzzle loaders.
Honestly, I wish I could be more active in the community, but those days seem to have past me by, now.
You Da' MAN!