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One of my best childhood friend's dad own a sporting goods business that sold alot of hunting and fishing stuff. The store was in West TN and did more business than any such place between Memphis and Nashville.
I worked there from 1967-71 while in HS. I can't remember us ever having over one or two handguns in stock at a time over that time. The owner would special order if someone wanted one. The store was well stocked in new and used shotguns and rifles but basically no handguns. It was all hunting and trap shooting guns.
I stopped working at the store before the first Dirty Harry movie. When I went back to visit about a year or so later the gun situation had changed. Had an entire case or two of handguns. Don't know why people's preferences toward handguns changed but Dirty Harry had a big effect on handguns sales in that area of the country.
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