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Story · April 27, 2011, 08:58 PM

The chosen gun will sit ignored in my character's drawer for some years till it gets stolen and used.

Dylan
If the revolver was purchased earlier, note the change in price - $40 in 1960 (mail order was possible, right to your door, until the Gun Control Act of 1968 stopped that) with boxes of 25 rounds only $1.85.

http://www.nrvoutdoors.com/ENFIELD%2...2072%20dpi.jpg

By comparison, one of the cheap WWII surplus .38 Enfields was only $17
http://www.nrvoutdoors.com/ENFIELD%2...0150%20DPI.jpg

See
http://www.nrvoutdoors.com/ENFIELD%2...ELD%20SNUB.htm

April 27, 2011, 08:58 PM	#51
Story Junior Member Join Date: May 21, 2005 Posts: 13	The chosen gun will sit ignored in my character's drawer for some years till it gets stolen and used. Dylan If the revolver was purchased earlier, note the change in price - $40 in 1960 (mail order was possible, right to your door, until the Gun Control Act of 1968 stopped that) with boxes of 25 rounds only $1.85. http://www.nrvoutdoors.com/ENFIELD%2...2072%20dpi.jpg By comparison, one of the cheap WWII surplus .38 Enfields was only $17 http://www.nrvoutdoors.com/ENFIELD%2...0150%20DPI.jpg See http://www.nrvoutdoors.com/ENFIELD%2...ELD%20SNUB.htm Last edited by Story; April 27, 2011 at 09:04 PM.