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Maxim Silencers – Popular Tools in 20th Century Slaughterhouses
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| October 25, 2023
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 10/27/2023 4:45:47 AM PDT by marktwain
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No reason was given for the inclusion of the silencer in the National Firearms Act. The adding of a $200 tax to the price of a $5 silencer retarded silencer/suppressor technology for 50 years.
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posted on
10/27/2023 4:45:47 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Ad for the 1909 Maxim silencer. They cost $5. $5 was 1/4 of an ounce of gold at the time.
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posted on
10/27/2023 4:48:50 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Make sure to get the “gun” silencer, not the “car” silencer. Heh.
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posted on
10/27/2023 5:03:04 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Carriage Hill
You could purchase guns through the mail up until 1968.
1960s advertisement
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posted on
10/27/2023 5:13:34 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Before you get too excited about those prices, realize that the $49 Walther PP in 1968 would be $433 today.
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posted on
10/27/2023 5:45:53 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Yo-Yo
"Before you get too excited about those prices, realize that the $49 Walther PP in 1968 would be $433 today." Still not bad, considering that a new Ft. Smith PPK or PPK/S will leave the factory with a price tag over $800...
To: Yo-Yo
Yes. I purchased a number of the Star Model B pistols, listed at $59 in the ad, for about $99 sometime around the year 2000. Decent pistols. A design improvement on the 1911. I might still have one or two of them.
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posted on
10/27/2023 5:50:28 AM PDT
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marktwain
To: Yo-Yo
Ya people don’t realize wages back then. I looked it up a while ago and top journeyman pay in the trades was like $6 an hour!!
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posted on
10/27/2023 5:51:04 AM PDT
by
sit-rep
To: marktwain
In Norway silencers are common. I do believe in some areas it is required. Just go to “finn.no” and search for rifle or vapen. Here is an example: https://www.finn.no/bap/webstore/ad.html?finnkode=206760766&ci=4
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posted on
10/27/2023 6:03:47 AM PDT
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
To: sit-rep
Ya people don’t realize wages back then. I looked it up a while ago and top journeyman pay in the trades was like $6 an hour!! I recall minimum wage was $1 an hour, maybe a $1.25. Inflation was starting to take off after 1964...
To: MCF
Silencers should be treated the same as any other accessory such as a magazine or a rifle scope.
They are primarily a safety device.
To: MCF
In Norway silencers are common. I do believe in some areas it is required. England too. You can buy them in 3-packs in hardware stores.
To: PROCON
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10/27/2023 6:16:16 AM PDT
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Joe Brower
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posted on
10/27/2023 6:24:52 AM PDT
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PROCON
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: marktwain
I agree. If the NFA were repealed tomorrow, I wouldn’t shed a tear.
To: marktwain
At 74 now, I found that to be just “normal”.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 killed all that.
Anyone remember “normal”?
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posted on
10/27/2023 6:36:21 AM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: marktwain
My third grade field trip was to a cattle slaughter house. In those days a guy swung a really big hammer onto the head of the cow
Some were very bisturbed by the orocesd
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posted on
10/27/2023 6:44:26 AM PDT
by
Nifster
( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: marktwain
Huyshoppe Ave Hartford Ct. is the Original Colt Mfg. Building address, I spent a lot of time working in those old buildings. Lot of history there but I did not know that Maxim was located there too.
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10/27/2023 6:58:20 AM PDT
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ABN 505
(Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
To: ABN 505
Huyshoppe Ave Hartford Ct. is the Original Colt Mfg. Building addressHartford CT and Springfield MA were both historic manufacturing sites that should have been supported by the states, neither was.
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10/27/2023 7:00:55 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: marktwain
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10/27/2023 7:01:24 AM PDT
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sit-rep
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