So Jack Lord, gungrabber, owned a gun. Figures. He was a hypocrite. It's my understanding that Sammy Davis Jr. was a bigtime gunowner. Evidently he was very fond of Colt revolvers from all eras.
Very easy to call a man names when you know nothing about him. A lot of ignoramuses on here. Sure, Jack Lord went on about being anti-guns, yet owned guns, and brandished them in everyone's faces despite claiming to be anti-gun. That makes a lot of sense.
You call him a hypocrite as though as that was something you knew about all along, and as though everyone else is an angel.
From what I read, all those guns were given to him - by Sammy, Elvis - and others. Jack didn't go out and buy them to use as protection. These were friends of his, and he didn't want to hurt their feelings by saying no, so he accepted them. I don't see anything hypocritical about that. He had to register them anyway, even if they weren't for use. Even if someone gives you a gun as a gift and all it's going to do is collect dust in your drawer, it still has to be registered, hence that state permit that Tom mentioned before.
Even if Jack owned some other guns as someone claimed when a magazine found old permits of his, maybe Jack bought them years before Five-O, when he may have had a different view on guns. People are entitled to change their minds about issues. Just because Jack took an anti-gun view or a gun control view, that doesn't mean he could never have owned a gun in his life before.
Being anti-gun and pro gun-control are similar, but not the same. I've seen both labels used to describe Jack, but which he really was I don't know or care. He wasn't using those guns, and they were sitting around in a display case in his apartment. Big deal. I've seen a lot of people label Jack and pass judgment on him like they're so much better, and it's one big joke that isn't even funny and never was.