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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
Guns were far, far more available prior to the gun control act of 1968. There were sales ads for guns of all descriptions in many magazines. You filled out the order slip, enclosed a money order or check and mailed it out. A few days later your friendly postal worker would deliver it right to your doorstep. No background check, no identification required. What has changed? If you don't know the answer, I'm not going to waste my time and effort to explain it.
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I remember those days. The NRA magazine "American Rifleman" used to regularly run ads selling surplus military rifles. Even by the standards of the day they were ridiculously cheap. Dad ordered a couple of (I believe) 30:06 Springfield rifles which arrived packed in cosmoline. Dad was an amateur gunsmith so he sporterized them: looked pretty good as I remember.
Funny--we feared The Bomb back then but not each other.