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* Why is this article based mostly around Anime Merch? there are numerous other examples-- a gun collector is clearly paying for the "legacy" of a Colt 1911 when there is a Glock 21 (firing the same caliber, with bigger capacity and more reliability) for half the price (~$1200 vs. ~$500). The same could be said for anyone paying for a $1500 Dessert Eagle when you could buy, for the same price, a Sig-Sauer P226 and various magazines and accessories, not to mention ammo, for it, with about 90 times more practicality. It's the "prestige" of having a shiny [[Hand Cannon]].

** Because most tropers are twenty-something nerds whose interests run along those lines. Its a symptom of authors only writing what they know, not of lack of examples existing.

** Plus, this is a wiki; there's nothing stopping people adding other appropriate references, it's just that most of the people who have been contributing to this wiki so far have greater interest in merchandise around fictional properties than firearms.

** It's also probably because this wiki as a whole is based around fiction and how it works, not firearms in real life. And for the most part, unless it's relating to their use in fiction, firearms in real life are more or less irrelevant when it comes to a huge percentage of the site, so most people when they're exploring and editing the site most likely simply aren't going to be thinking about them as much; even if they're a gun collector, when they're on ''this'' particular site they're more likely to be thinking about, say, their favourite TV program or anime than their gun collection. They very likely will, however, be thinking about various fictional properties, simply because they're on a site almost wholly devoted to breaking down, cataloguing and exploring fiction. So, when dealing with a trope about merchandising and collecting, people are probably more likely to produce examples about fictional properties than examples about firearms simply because the user is more likely to be thinking about fictional properties at the time and will more likely be able to come up with relevant examples about them than they are about firearms. This doesn't mean that the firearm examples might not be valid, just that it's not one that's going to readily come to mind for 99% of the users of the site 99% of the time.