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To: Carriage Hill
You could purchase guns through the mail up until 1968.

1960s advertisement

4 posted on 10/27/2023 5:13:34 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Before you get too excited about those prices, realize that the $49 Walther PP in 1968 would be $433 today.


5 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)
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To: marktwain

At 74 now, I found that to be just “normal”.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 killed all that.
Anyone remember “normal”?


16 posted on 10/27/2023 6:36:21 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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