I bought my first gun (Stevens-Savage 94Y single shot 12 ga.) at the Pep Boys in Downingtown PA when I was 13. Paid them $7.00/wk for 7 weeks on lay-away, and they handed me the box when I made the last payment. Bought my first rifle for $15.00 a couple of years later from the guy who had a booth at the Downingtown Farmer's Market: walked in, handed over the cash, took home the gun. It was POS semi-sporterized Terni Carcano in 6.5 Italian which provided me the opportunity to completely strip, clean, polish and re-blue the metal, while finishing the 'sporterizing' of the stock. Good learning experience, but the gun was worthless even for plinking, and Norma 6.5 Italian was expensive even then.