According to the description that frequently accompanies these images as they circulate via email, they show the home gun collection of Charlton Heston, housed beneath his 1860s Manor House. The images began to do the rounds online soon after Heston's death in April, 2008.

Heston was well known as a gun enthusiast. He was president of the National Rifle Association for many years. However, this is not his gun collection, nor even his home. The collection actually belonged to attorney Bruce Stern, who died in 2007. The guns have since been mostly auctioned off. It was one of the largest firearms collections ever to go up for auction.