Then buy them. They’re typically available.I don't sell guns, I just regret not buying more and when some were more available, case in point Romanian PSL, Colt Python, Colt Anaconda, Saiga AK.
This is one of the finest "dad-rants" I've heard in a longtime. I'm not in any way talking down about it either.Then buy them. They’re typically available.
See, it’s kinda like Coors beer. When I was in college in 1970, there was a guy we knew that drove a moving semi truck. Coors wasn’t available east of the Mississippi, so when he went west he would pick up 400 cases of Coors and bring it back to Indiana. Guys would pay stupid prices because by god it was the greatest beer ever. Forbidden fruit.
Now that Coors is available anywhere, it’s just another beer
So, in another ten years the gun that sells for $1,500 today will be $2,500. And guys will whine like school girls “damn, wish I would have bought that gun when it was only $1,500
I lived on a lake here in Indiana. I got tired of the a-holes whining about “In 1958 i could have bought a house on the lake for $7,500. Now they’re $150,000”.
Well, got news for you pal. You didn’t have the $7,500 then just like you don’t have the $150,000 now. Somehow those idiots think they’re going to pay 1958 prices with 2019 dollars
And, don’t tell me you don’t have the money. You can buy cigarettes, get thousand dollar tattoos. You eat out a dozen times a week. You eat at the food truck at work and spend $8 on breakfast and $12 for lunch that you could make at home for $2. You have $50,000 pickup that carries a bed full of air 99.9% of the time
Priorities
I watch those guys on American Pickers that are 80 years old and hang on to something they’ve had since 1953 but they won’t sell it because “some day I’m gonna get around to fixing it up”. Yeah, and some day I’m gonna be an astronaut
And, don’t tell me you don’t have the money. You can buy cigarettes, get thousand dollar tattoos. You eat out a dozen times a week. You eat at the food truck at work and spend $8 on breakfast and $12 for lunch that you could make at home for $2. You have $50,000 pickup that carries a bed full of air 99.9% of the time
Sure I could still get those on my list. But it becomes like you said priorities, do I want to spend $3000.00 on a Colt Python, or $700.00 on a Ruger GP100. I'd rather have the Python but the price is steep with other things to consider, but going back to "they are still available" well yes they are but they are discontinued so the price has been pumped up to prices I just don't want to pay. If I had bought one twenty years ago I'd still have it today. I'm not going to buy a PSL now because they are no longer imported so again price is jacked up , when the rifle now is the same price as a new M1A or DSA FAL, and those are better than a PSL. However a PSL at $800.00, yes I would buy, but they are now $1700.00.Then buy them. They’re typically available.
See, it’s kinda like Coors beer. When I was in college in 1970, there was a guy we knew that drove a moving semi truck. Coors wasn’t available east of the Mississippi, so when he went west he would pick up 400 cases of Coors and bring it back to Indiana. Guys would pay stupid prices because by god it was the greatest beer ever. Forbidden fruit.
Now that Coors is available anywhere, it’s just another beer
So, in another ten years the gun that sells for $1,500 today will be $2,500. And guys will whine like school girls “damn, wish I would have bought that gun when it was only $1,500
I lived on a lake here in Indiana. I got tired of the a-holes whining about “In 1958 i could have bought a house on the lake for $7,500. Now they’re $150,000”.
Well, got news for you pal. You didn’t have the $7,500 then just like you don’t have the $150,000 now. Somehow those idiots think they’re going to pay 1958 prices with 2019 dollars
And, don’t tell me you don’t have the money. You can buy cigarettes, get thousand dollar tattoos. You eat out a dozen times a week. You eat at the food truck at work and spend $8 on breakfast and $12 for lunch that you could make at home for $2. You have $50,000 pickup that carries a bed full of air 99.9% of the time
Priorities
Which was exactly my point.well yes they are but they are discontinued so the price has been pumped up to prices I just don't want to pay.