What are the costs of owning a gun?

[bleedingheart]

This is a serious question about what it costs to maintain a gun or gun collection.

The reason I am asking this is because my neighbor told me this summer that a few years ago he had to sell off most of his gun collection because the insurance was getting too steep for him. Some of them were collectables but a lot were just different kinds of hunting rifles.

So.... what does the average handgun, rifle, ..etc cost.
How much for ammo, licensing fees, proper attire...insurance???

Another reason he sold off most of his guns was because his grandson wasn't the least bit interested in hunting. He and his son had hunted together for years but the grandson doesn't want any parts of it and much to my neighbor's credit he hasn't forced the kid to do anything. (In my family they would have dragged you into the woods and made you do it anyways.)
As an aside, he told me the boy's is just interested in books..I told him that perhaps he would be a great scholar one day and he told me that he was going to be a nerd...but that he loved him anyways...(you had to be there ...it was kind of cute)