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The problem is, define "affordable". About as bad as defining what the do-gooders call "affordable housing".
Fifty years ago, you could buy a Super Grade Model 70 for around $75. Fifty years ago, my gross salary as a Junior Inspector for the Texas Highway Department was $230 per month.
Nowadays, minimum wage is about $900 a month.
Basically, if you can't afford a $1,000 rifle, plus scope, you aren't getting decent wages. Simple as that. To be anywhere near the economic "middle class" in today's U.S. of A., you need to gross at least $60,000 a year or more--to live as good as I did on a whole bunch less, twenty and thirty years ago.
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