Nope, your buddy sounds normal to me.

We have three gun safes here in CA (wouldn't be here except for USN)and two more in Nevada. It is like a disease for which I will not seek a cure.

Even the wife gets involved....two years ago I went shopping for a pre-64 M70, NIB and came back from the first day of the show -almost- in tears, like some sort of withdrawal. Wife suggests we go to the Harley dealer....drove out with a new wide glide. For my birthday that year she got me a BFR in .500.