IN a country where it is believed there are two guns for every resident – one pistol-packing American is doing his bit to bump up the averages. Mel Bernstein – known as the Dragon Man – has earned the title the ‘most armed man in the US’ and has a frightening 3,000 weapons in his collection – and that doesn’t include the tanks. Mel Bernstein, who earned his nickname thanks to his flamethrower-rigged motorbike, has now given a tour inside his vast private military museum known as Dragon Land.

The gun lover’s paradise in El Paso County, Colorado, boasts a firing range, paintball course, 80 military vehicles and a store licensed to sell automatic weapons. In total, the collector has 3,000 working weapons ranging from samurai swords to bazookas. With snake tattoos covering his arms, the biker doesn’t seem to care what society thinks about his mind-blowing collection which is worth more than £8million. READ MORE