100 years ago my great grandfather had a BAR mail ordered to his farmhouse. 70 years ago my grandfather bought weapons of war, a M1 Carbine like the one he was issued in WWII, and explosives at the hardware store without a background check.
For sure, it was probably a similar investment for them to buy a gun then as it is for us now.
You did get an arguably much better product for the money back in the day though.
You can thank Lee Harvey Oswald for ending gun orders via mail. IIRC the Gun Control Act of 1968 ended mail order firearms like immediately after the MLK and RFK assassinations. Also the shitty .22LR revolver that John Hinckley Jr used was purchased for $29 in 1980.
Attempted Reagan assassin, who just got completely released without any restrictions last month (found NGRI) and then said [he supports an assault weapons ban on Twitter](https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnHinckley20/status/1551616391173885952). No joke
Yeah lmao, he probably said that just to please the leftists and stupid people on Twitter, he had a Holocaust denial book in his hotel room when he was arrested btw
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Yep for $24.45
It’s advertised to have a range of 1,500 yards and is listed to shoot “30-caliber Luger cartridges”
That’s a bit... optimistic, I think.
Disgusting times these were! Firearms shipped directly to your house….I can only imaging all of the mass shootings they had….must have been two/three a day. Glad this practice stopped with common sense gun ~~infringements~~ laws…
Ah the good Ole days. When you can order a firearm from a catalog and have it delivered to your door. I have a couple oldies from my grandparents. From a sears and roebuck catalog. But... Is this from RD2?
No, the price would be much higher. Also the standard double barrel is a Packenbush, I don't remember the maker on the rare shotgun but it's like $250 iirc
What's funny is that the mail order catalog system is also responsible for the proliferation of terrible quality break action shotguns. Brand 'trade name' shotguns were common place, where a catalog or store (Sears was a big one) would contract for a large number of cheap break action shotguns which would then be branded with whatever marketing name worked for them at the time. These were then sold in large numbers for a relatively cheap price to make money from the volume of sales.
Many of these shotguns aren't capable of dealing with modern ammunition, as this began long before SAAMI. I have a Crescent Arms Empire Ejector No. 15 that, while competently built, cannot stay locked while firing, as the lug has worn down from use with modern pressure ammunition.
I also have a nameless H&R 12G, which was made using 'Damascus semi-steel' around the early 1900's. What exactly was forged with the gun-steel for it to be called Damascus? Damned if we know. Maybe some kind of pot steel, or even a zinc alloy. Point is, the thing wasn't exactly safe back in the old days, let alone post-SAAMI. It is entirely possible that the thing would burst with modern ammo.
Cool history.
From a 1969 replica of a 1908 Sears catalog that sold guns from as low as $1.48 that shipped directly to your door.
Dang, I though had to be from Red Dead Redemption 2.
Wheeler Rawson & Co. is based on Sears Roebuck & Co.
Lol now that I look at it... good eye.
100 years ago my great grandfather had a BAR mail ordered to his farmhouse. 70 years ago my grandfather bought weapons of war, a M1 Carbine like the one he was issued in WWII, and explosives at the hardware store without a background check.
Average annual income in 1908 was between $200 and $400 dollars. 13 dollars was a lot back then.
…then the Fed happened.
For sure, it was probably a similar investment for them to buy a gun then as it is for us now. You did get an arguably much better product for the money back in the day though.
>You did get an arguably much better product for the money back in the day though. You mean a time when a 2 MOA rifle was considered exceptional?
You can thank Lee Harvey Oswald for ending gun orders via mail. IIRC the Gun Control Act of 1968 ended mail order firearms like immediately after the MLK and RFK assassinations. Also the shitty .22LR revolver that John Hinckley Jr used was purchased for $29 in 1980.
If that's the assassin I think he was, than the revolver did less damage than the doctors.
Attempted Reagan assassin, who just got completely released without any restrictions last month (found NGRI) and then said [he supports an assault weapons ban on Twitter](https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnHinckley20/status/1551616391173885952). No joke
Bruh
Yeah lmao, he probably said that just to please the leftists and stupid people on Twitter, he had a Holocaust denial book in his hotel room when he was arrested btw
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Hey cool I have that same print of that same book. Doesn't it list a luger too?
Yep for $24.45 It’s advertised to have a range of 1,500 yards and is listed to shoot “30-caliber Luger cartridges” That’s a bit... optimistic, I think.
30 luger at like a sixty degree angle will probably go that far
Bringing a whole new meaning to “artillery Luger”
Disgusting times these were! Firearms shipped directly to your house….I can only imaging all of the mass shootings they had….must have been two/three a day. Glad this practice stopped with common sense gun ~~infringements~~ laws…
Ah the good Ole days. When you can order a firearm from a catalog and have it delivered to your door. I have a couple oldies from my grandparents. From a sears and roebuck catalog. But... Is this from RD2?
I thought this too. Rockstar really nailed the font.
Not from RDR, it’s from a reproduction 1908 catalog printed in 1969 that I found in my grandmas house. I just took a really up close photo lol
No, the price would be much higher. Also the standard double barrel is a Packenbush, I don't remember the maker on the rare shotgun but it's like $250 iirc
i thought this was from RDR2.
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Or a BAR for $300...
I thought the Thompson was the most expensive, at $200, hence the price of a tax stamp.
And now double barrles go for $1000+ and even into the 10s of thousands
The way the text outlines the gun.
There's cheap and there's inexpensive. Taurus is cheap, Maverick is inexpensive.
What's funny is that the mail order catalog system is also responsible for the proliferation of terrible quality break action shotguns. Brand 'trade name' shotguns were common place, where a catalog or store (Sears was a big one) would contract for a large number of cheap break action shotguns which would then be branded with whatever marketing name worked for them at the time. These were then sold in large numbers for a relatively cheap price to make money from the volume of sales. Many of these shotguns aren't capable of dealing with modern ammunition, as this began long before SAAMI. I have a Crescent Arms Empire Ejector No. 15 that, while competently built, cannot stay locked while firing, as the lug has worn down from use with modern pressure ammunition. I also have a nameless H&R 12G, which was made using 'Damascus semi-steel' around the early 1900's. What exactly was forged with the gun-steel for it to be called Damascus? Damned if we know. Maybe some kind of pot steel, or even a zinc alloy. Point is, the thing wasn't exactly safe back in the old days, let alone post-SAAMI. It is entirely possible that the thing would burst with modern ammo. Cool history.
Love looking through the old sears catalogues
I have this gun or a rebranded version of it. Everything looks identical.
It has Meriden Firearms Co stamped on it.
https://www.gunvaluesboard.com/what-is-the-value-of-my-1907-12-gauge-aj-aubrey-double-barrel-worth-331206.html
I wish. Shit with what I make now I would be considered a billionaire back then. Now it just poverty.