1956 Guns catalogue; guns for sale

[Tom S.]

With respect to the good old days - I have lived through them. As already pointed out, prices are relative to wages, but here's a couple other thoughts.

Manufacturing processes have vastly improved. Fits and finishes are far better than they used to be on average guns. Materials have changed too, giving us stocks you can drive over w/o cracking, and light weight, highly concealable firearms. In today's world, I consider these all 'pluses'.

Here are some minuses: Big box stores and the internet have nearly killed the independent firearm dealer who could answer any question you had, or provide personal services. Regulations have been killers too, such as the ban on mail order sales and haz-mat fees on reloading supplies.

So like everything, there are always two sides to the story.

 

[conw]

This is why those of us that can't afford gold can invest in firearms. They are a safe place to put your money, for the same reasons that gold is a safe place to invest. But you can't shoot gold, and no matter what you do to it, you can't increase its value.

I disagree on technicalities...

The reasons they are "safe" is different, and gold is not "safe" if everything goes completely downhill. No one is going to trade their truly inherently valuable resources for gold if they don't have enough to eat, etc. Like you said, you can't eat gold.

Second, firearms would not necessarily be in high demand in a true crisis, either. Those who want and know how to use them already have them. Sure, demand might go up slightly -after- even gold became nearly worthless, but it's not going to skyrocket like the price of food or ammo or commodities like toilet paper and toothbrushes.

(Oh, two more nitpicky points: you could buy $300 worth of gold just as easy as you can buy a $300 firearm, so I'm not sure what you mean by "can't afford"; and also a jeweler's business is, more or less, based on "increasing the value of gold (etc)".)

 

[230RN]

^

I sure wish rifles came in black!
-Thomas Jefferson

PLEASE: Check gun-related quotes for credibility so you don't make yourself and the pro-gun community look ignorant!

Hilarious! And a well-sharpened point, too!

Terry, 230RN

 

[searcher451]

For those of us who believe that guns are horribly overpriced at the moment, what with the recent elections and supply and demand and all of that, remember this. Fifty years from now, we will be looking back at today's prices for firearms and fondly recalling "the good old days," when guns could still be picked up for little more than a song.

 

[conw]

Terry, there is certainly no dearth of misquotes regarding pro-gun issues...if it's Jefferson, Hitler, Brady, Helmke, and most other famous people whose statements on guns can be assumed to be significant, it is usually totally fabricated or else taken way out of context. I understand the impulse to quote a cool gun quote from someone ELSE'S sig without checking it, but a simple Google search reveals most of them are just not fact-based.

www.guncite.com has good info on this type of thing...