Young J.M. had been a very sickly child and thus had become rather spoiled.  He refused to take the medicine the family doctor had prescribed.  When his condition finally got so bad that the doctor feared the child’s survival without the medicine, J.M.’s parents had to do something.

 

His father bribed him to take the medicine with a gift of a small muzzleloading shotgun. 

What his father did not know is that his bribe to keep his son alive would start the largest privately-held collection of firearms in the world.