Sistema1927
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Things didn't turn around on a dime just because of September 1939. We were still trying to stay out of war in 1940, even as we began to ramp up. Many men enlisted prior to Pearl Harbor because they were still having difficulty finding work. I have spoken to a number of those men of the "greatest generation" (and performed far too many of their funerals), and some of them were still relying on government make-work like the CCC prior to our entry into WWII.By 1940, the Depression was essentially over and there were manufacturing jobs opening up faster than they could be filled as wartime demand sparked the economy. On the other side of the coin, pawn shops were filled with fine handguns that sold for pennies on the dollar.
I still contend that most of us wouldn't have had the wherewithal to purchase a concealed carry weapon in 1940.