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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:46:35 PM EDT
I love looking through old catalogs and magazines and seeing the old ads for guns.
It must have been awesome to be able to order a gun in a catalog and have it delivered right to your door. If you got em' post em' up.      |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:49:02 PM EDT
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I'm subscribing to this mofo.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:53:22 PM EDT
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These are always depressing.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:55:22 PM EDT
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These type of ads make me both angry and nauseous.
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:56:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:57:00 PM EDT
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These type of ads make me both angry and nauseous. Just remember about inflation. But yes, it does suck. |
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Posted: 3/29/2015 11:57:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:00:57 AM EDT
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These threads are always depressing. All the C&R guns for cheap are depressing.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:01:01 AM EDT
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Look where some of those companies shipped from, MGs and DDs from California and Tokarevs from NYC.
(funny enough, the .55 boys rifle is still perfectly legal in California because of a typo in gun control laws here from the 60s, listing DDs as .60 or above, not the NFA definition of .50 or above.) |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:03:11 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:20:27 AM EDT
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the way it should be today,mail order direct to your house.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:22:29 AM EDT
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the way it should be today,mail order direct to your house. You're preaching to the choir, brother. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:29:04 AM EDT
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the way it should be today,mail order direct to your house. what? think of all the potential assassins out there just waiting to bag a politician.........Hell we just can't have that. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:31:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat's awesome! |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:33:10 AM EDT
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I always liked 80's Remington ads for some reason.
The Marlin squirrel stew ads were cool, too. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:33:11 AM EDT
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Years from now, someone will post an ad with $50 stripped lowers. We'll all be bitching about how we should have bought 100 of them.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:37:17 AM EDT
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I wish more people had bought up those old machine guns.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:38:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:41:51 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:43:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm subscribing to this mofo. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:45:59 AM EDT
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The Cadmus Industries ad for the STEN sold a dewat.
I suspect that the ad for SA Co. did the same. It was cut off to remove details. I don't recall the Army releasing M3s to civilian sale in quantities that would justify magazine ads at $49.95. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:47:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: These are always depressing. They won't be anywhere near as depressing as our ads today in another 50 years if you're around to see them  You'll say "$900 for a stripped lower? Shit, I remember way back when a PSA was $50." The guys behind the LGS counter will roll their eyes and go back to fucking around with their fancy H&K MP17 electromagnetic subrailgun. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:47:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThe GI guns are the thing that is sad IMO. Anyone born before 1950 should have a 1911 or m1 to pass down. They were giving them away! |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:53:45 AM EDT
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A former member posted a 1970s dealer sheet on TOS a while back. Unless I am mistaken, NIB Colt M16s were under $200 and m193 was about $.02/round if you bought by the pallet.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 12:56:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I wish more people had bought up those old machine guns. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:03:51 AM EDT
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You're preaching to the choir, brother. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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the way it should be today,mail order direct to your house. You're preaching to the choir, brother. Damn straight. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:05:33 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:10:17 AM EDT
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In Before the 1920's era Thompson Ads
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:10:55 AM EDT
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Vintage? How about this one from January?
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:12:48 AM EDT
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I'll take 3 1940 Tokarevs please...and while you fetch those I'd like to purchase 10 M3 Grease Guns along with 20 magazines for each. I won't ask for a discount sir...I'll pay your price.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:14:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:16:24 AM EDT
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I see those old ads in the bound editions of American Rifleman or other magazines and it is totally depressing.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:22:41 AM EDT
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Stupid Bastards....They had no idea how great they had it....Did nothing to protect this great right against the hordes of evil.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:25:36 AM EDT
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I wish more people had bought up those old machine guns. yeah, but that $200 at the time was the equivelent (Depending on when we're talking about, to $2-$3,000 in today's dollars in the 60', $200 was a Mortgage payment AND utilities for most people. Hard to justify that $200 Tax for a $20 SMG... it's the equivalent today of laying down $50K to own a Mac-10 |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:27:19 AM EDT
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yeah, but that $200 at the time was the equivelent (Depending on when we're talking about, to $2-$3,000 in today's dollars in the 60', $200 was a Mortgage payment AND utilities for most people. Hard to justify that $200 Tax for a $20 SMG... it's the equivalent today of laying down $50K to own a Mac-10 Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I wish more people had bought up those old machine guns. yeah, but that $200 at the time was the equivelent (Depending on when we're talking about, to $2-$3,000 in today's dollars in the 60', $200 was a Mortgage payment AND utilities for most people. Hard to justify that $200 Tax for a $20 SMG... it's the equivalent today of laying down $50K to own a Mac-10 I am not sure what that is more telling of inflation or the moronic NFA tax? |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:34:53 AM EDT
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Stupid Bastards....They had no idea how great they had it....Did nothing to protect this great right against the hordes of evil. They did, but propaganda and a load of legislative deceit won the day. I mentioned the dewat ad for the STEN because that was one of the democrat dirty tricks in their presentations to sell the 1968 gun control act. The gun banners gave out propaganda sheets with stuff like that, edited so you could only see what they wanted. The most infamous one I know of was an ad that sold a folding stock for the M1 Carbine for $19.95. They cropped the details it so it only said "M1 Carbine $19.95" and then shrieked that Johnny could buy a machine gun from the back of a comic book for twenty bucks. It sucks, but that's what happens when they have the press in their pocket. Democrats lie and reporters swear to it. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 1:45:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: yeah, but that $200 at the time was the equivelent (Depending on when we're talking about, to $2-$3,000 in today's dollars in the 60', $200 was a Mortgage payment AND utilities for most people. Hard to justify that $200 Tax for a $20 SMG... it's the equivalent today of laying down $50K to own a Mac-10 Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I wish more people had bought up those old machine guns. yeah, but that $200 at the time was the equivelent (Depending on when we're talking about, to $2-$3,000 in today's dollars in the 60', $200 was a Mortgage payment AND utilities for most people. Hard to justify that $200 Tax for a $20 SMG... it's the equivalent today of laying down $50K to own a Mac-10 The guys who registered a ton of MGs or auto sears also took a huge risk IMO. They deserve their return on investment. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 3:54:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 4:12:18 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 4:25:35 AM EDT
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I wish more people had bought up those old machine guns. Don't forget though, that you had to add a $200 stamp and what, a year or so wait then, to get one. $200 was a LOT more money then than now. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 5:29:18 AM EDT
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It's interesting that the Winchester 94 in that ad wasn't available in .30-30. Also, the AR-15 is listed as coming with a 5-round magazine despite what's pictured. Were period mags blocked?
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Posted: 3/30/2015 5:51:54 AM EDT
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It's interesting that the Winchester 94 in that ad wasn't available in .30-30. Also, the AR-15 is listed as coming with a 5-round magazine despite what's pictured. Were period mags blocked? My dads Hbar sporter came with two 20 rounders, one pinned to 5 rounds and one pinned to 9 rounds, this was the early 90s, pre mag and AW ban hysteria. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 5:55:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 7:00:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: what? think of all the potential assassins out there just waiting to bag a politician.........Hell we just can't have that. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: the way it should be today,mail order direct to your house. what? think of all the potential assassins out there just waiting to bag a politician.........Hell we just can't have that. As a certain book notes. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 7:04:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Cadmus Industries ad for the STEN sold a dewat. I suspect that the ad for SA Co. did the same. It was cut off to remove details. I don't recall the Army releasing M3s to civilian sale in quantities that would justify magazine ads at $49.95. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 7:11:31 AM EDT
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How about the first double stack magazine pistol
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Posted: 3/30/2015 7:17:10 AM EDT
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These are always depressing. Quote HistoryQuoted:
These are always depressing. Yep.
Good enough for the Duke. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 7:22:05 AM EDT
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If I had a time machine.
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Posted: 3/30/2015 7:26:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2015 7:27:27 AM EDT
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The 1955 Python ad is a good example for how expensive a Python would have been for the average worker making around $1.20 a hour in 1955 which was the national average hourly wage back then.
The average hourly worker would have to work 100+ hours (before taxes/living expenses) to buy one. It may as well been the 3K they bring today. |
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Posted: 3/30/2015 7:37:59 AM EDT
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"two thugs with murderous looking clubs"....
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