There was a long item of luggage he had thrown up on the closet shelf 
unopened. Hearing the reports of trouble, he had taken the precaution of 
bringing these relics with him: an engraved lever-action .44 rifle with 
low-tech iron sights and, as a last-ditch sort of thing, a Colt revolver. These 
were unnecessarily glorious weapons, but he had long ago
gotten rid of any of his guns that did not have historical or artistic 
value.