Swing
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I remember seeing ads in gun magazines back in the mid 1970s for that bank in Colorado (Bank of Boulder); they use to give depositors a Weatherby rifle or shotgun in lieu of receiving any interest on their deposit. I think after 10 or 12 years they got their deposit back.
It has been a long time since I've seen those ads. Thanks for the memory.
As to the original question, it is the first I have heard of it. I do recall area that era there was a program(s) in which you sent in so many coupons (or whatever) from pipe tobacco and got a free revolver. IIRC, the revolver was a super cheap, .32-caliber "suicide special" of some kind.