This is (or was) awesome!

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"Weighs only six pounds"

These days you're lucky if you can find a 16" carbine that light, and it'll have one of those ridiculous fake collapsing stocks, but will also still probably have a heavy barrel.

Most postban ARs have a barrel heavier than my FAL. Your typical 20" HBAR-15A2 weighs in at around eight and a half pounds.

But, this was back before they tried to turn the AR-15 into a full sized battle rifle, and used it for what it was, a light weight small caliber rifle.
 
I guess if you really think about it its about the same.

1964 is when a new buick cost about $2500

A new buick now is about $25000.

You can get a similar new rifle like in the ad for about $750 to $900.

I do wish I could go back and get a few though:)
 
A fellow I work with has two he bought at that price. One has "Maybe a hundred rounds" through it, the other is still in the box it came in. No, he won't sell either of them .:mad:
 
Do those old AR 15's have barrels with a different rate of twist
than todays AR15's and clones?
 
Where is Mr. Peabody and his "Wayback" machine now that we need him?
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I remember reading (but didn't save) a quick & dirty analysis of gun prices over the years expressed not in straight $ but as a percentage of the "average" weekly income of an American citizen. Going by that measure, firearms are less expensive today than they ever have been.
 
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