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Flour sack pistols
This was asked by a member at TheHighRoad website at this Link. So far no definitive answer to the question below:
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Daisy Red Ryders were used as give aways back in time.
With windmills, if memory serves. Giving a revolver seems like a stretch, though. Although there's a bank in Texas that once gave guns away with substantial new depositors and investors. And guns have been included as a bonus with new car sales. Maybe so.
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I remember back in the late '70s or early '80s when some bank in Colorado gave Weatherby rifles in lieu of interest. I think it was a $10k deposit for ten years.
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Never heard of a revolver giveaway, but there were lots of gun giveaways back then. One of the most famous was a 22 single shot rifle in a sack of animal feed. Can't remember the make right now, but that was the only way to get one, and they were quite common years ago, but with the 10" barrels they had, it would be frowned upon nowadays,
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Evidently the spur trigger models were a prize in some flour sacks.
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One notable example is Marlin giving away a lever action .410 shotgun ca. 1929 with stock purchases in the company.
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EDIT: At least they still offered it a few years ago. I have not checked lately. EDIT 2: Did some checking. Looks like they stopped this program several years ago.
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Yep, Bank of Boulder.
When I was with American Rifleman the president of the bank and his son, VERY nice people, came into town and stopped by... Can't remember their names right now... I took them to lunch and wrote an article on the program that appeared in either an issue in 1992 or 1993, IIRC. They offered me, at their cost, any Weatherby I wanted, and boy I'll tell you that their cost was a LOT less than what I could have gotten it for anywhere else. But, I was living in Washington, DC, proper, and wasn't making much at at all (NRA paid for crap).
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They still pay crap
Mike - my classmate works for the En-R-AY at Fairfax and is taking a part time range master job to help make ends meet. Two other classmates work at the En-R-AY's Whittington Center where they receive the princely sum of about $8 an hour. One works there for health insurance (he's a pensioner) and the other uses it to get gunsmithing gigs.
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