I knew I liked him

For more than his writing, too.

This, from Tom McGuane's memories of Richard Brautigan:
"He also had an old standard army automatic. It's got a lot of kick and makes a big hole, but what he liked about it was that he thought it was a completely honest product of American manufacture. He had a fascination with the army Colt because it seemed to sum up gun owning, democratic gun manufacture, and excellence, all in one thing."

It does to me, too (this isn't mine, but looks just like it):