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So are you saying that Darrell really owned more personal firearms than what his wife told me?
(Also, that was back around the early to mid '90s when she told me that, too, and they were still operating out of their original old converted garage store building, albeit after a floor space expansion or two).

I was in the last two versions of the old building. Two observations from my first trip to Whittakers:

1) On arrival, and parking infront of the store, my first thought was "This can NOT be the largest stocking firearms dealer in the State of KY." After entering the store, it was like one of this movies were suddenly everything opens up.
2) The bulk density of firearms to floor area in the old building was "impressive".

First time for me was back when Whittaker's was still in their original building, which was just a typical residential detached garage converted into a sort of 'general outdoor store'. Back then Darrell basically sold live bait along with a little of this and that but mostly fishing/hunting related stuff, and had just a very few simple racks of used guns. We'd stop there and buy live bait sometimes when we were taking our son fishing for catfish at the Diamond Lake pay lakes right up the road past Whittaker's. The big surprise for me came at their growth, which seemed to really start to happen by leaps and bounds after they changed to stocking firearms/shooting related products exclusively and pretty much dropped everything else. Even before they built the first new building the weekend crowds would often be practically elbow to elbow easily rivaling some of the gun shows I've been to. Whittaker's also had more worth the time to look at and at better prices than most gun shows, too.

Well, the "Larry, Darrel and Darell" joke sure took an interesting and unforeseen twist there now didn't it? And yes, it was extremely funny for those of us in the know.

You have to be of a certain age group, which I am, to understand that one.