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  • Free Pistol with San Francisco Newspaper Subscription (1887)

    11/12/2016 12:54:59 AM PST · by marktwain · 10 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 6 November, 2016 | Dean Weingarten
    Using guns as a marketing bonus has a long history in the United States.  Guns have always been valued.  A free firearm with a car or to open a bank account has been fairly common in the last few years. The usual system, in our over regulated age, is to give a coupon to be redeemed at a gun shop, which has made a deal with the car dealership or the bank. But things were simpler in 1887, when the San Francisco Chronicle a weekly, offered a pistol along with a years subscription, for $3.90.  That did not include...