Remember when it cost less...

[kidicarus13]

1.) Online companies did not charge tax (that was your responsibility)

2.) FFLs did not charge transfer fees, and when they were required to, it was <$50

3.) GunBroker didn't charge the buyer tax or a 1% "Compliance Fee"

4.) Shipping firearms was easy and relatively inexpensive through FedEx and UPS?

5.) There were no additional fees to use credit cards, and you received a discount when using ca$h

6.) Getting a 10-minute haircut was <$40

7.) Colorado did not charge $0.28 on every delivery

And unrelated to increased costs, the attached messages never existed for Colorado.9583095831

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[Bailey Guns]

I kind of feel sorry for the kids born in the past 10 or 15 years. They aren't gonna really know a world where there was a better time...unless things just get unbearably bad. At least us geezers have good memories of things when we were young.

[BPTactical]

Thank your local Democrat.

[Walker2970]

Pepperidge Farms remembers

[funkymonkey1111]

Who was required to charge a transfer fee?

[eddiememphis]

I remember when the Rocky Mountain News has classified ads. Under sporting goods, there were often guns listed.

No shipping, no compliance, no ffl, no CBI.

[kidicarus13]

Who was required to charge a transfer fee?They aren't, but they all do = same as required in my book.

[BPTactical]

I remember when the Rocky Mountain News has classified ads. Under sporting goods, there were often guns listed.

No shipping, no compliance, no ffl, no CBI.


Hell I remember the Rocky Mountain News! The Thrifty Nickel was good for shooting irons as well.

[funkymonkey1111]

They aren't, but they all do = same as required in my book.

Cabela's does transfers for $30

[funkymonkey1111]

They aren't, but they all do = same as required in my book.

Cabela's does transfers for $30

[3beansalad]

I miss the good old days of firearms available at local garage sales.

Are others seeing holster restrictions on Amazon to Colorado addresses? I don't but I have two friends that have reported being unable to buy a holster through the 'zon.

[flogger]

Kind of off subject, I remember when a pack of smokes cost the same as a gallon of gas, around 25 cents.

[buffalobo]

To buy rimfire ammo at the auto parts or hardware store.



If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

[BPTactical]

How about when in high school there were shotguns and rifles in the back window and trunks of half of the vehicles in the student parking lot (and the teachers lot as well)?
And nobody even raised an eyebrow...

[Great-Kazoo]

Remember when.


Sex was safe

and





Motorcycles were dangerous.

[10x]

Anyone remember ordering guns from a catalog and having it delivered to your door by the post office.
Mil surplus ball 30-06 was $0.04 for wwii corrosive and $0.05 for non corrosive.

[3beansalad]

To buy rimfire ammo at the auto parts or hardware store.

And Long's Drugs. 95849

[Little Dutch]

The Walgreens on 31'st and Colorado in Colorado Springs used to carry a lot of military surplus rifles and had a good stock of ammunition for good prices. We used to stop there on the way to Rampart Range about once a week.

[wctriumph]

When I was 12 I could go to the highway liquor store and grocery and buy a 50 round box of 22LR for $.49 so my friends and I could shoot rabbits in the farmers field. If we did a head shot we could take them to the store and get $.50 per bunny.
Several years later in high school I was on the school shooting team. This was all in California.

I’m so old …

[flogger]

I remember a Dave Cooks store at University Hills (1969), they had a few barrels with various old surplus long guns sticking out of them. I was too young to appreciate what they were, but I remember the price of $19.99 ea.!

[TFOGGER]

500 round bricks of .22 at Sam's club for 9.89...

[Hummer]

I also remember those barrels of surplus M1 carbines in Montgomery Ward at Lakeside. They had a larger inventory and better prices that Gart Bros. and Dave Cook's. Even as a young kid, I drooled over them, but dad would never pop for one. Before Gart Bros. built the sports castle on Broadway, the main store was on Larimer St., down the block from a multi story Goodwill store. I shopped at both. At Garts, I bought new Redfield International peep sights and a target sling for my Savage Anchutz match 54 target rifle, and made many trips there for good target .22 target ammo.

And, I still have some of those 39 and 49 cent boxes of .22 long rifle, and one 27 cent box of .22 long.

In '68 and '69, I worked for the Rocky Mountain News in the streets dept, where I'd pull bundles of newspapers from the dock as they came off the presses at every edition. Several guys would wait for the latest paper to peruse the dog racing results. On the weekends I delivered 2500 to 3000 papers a night to the street coin boxes and other vendors along Colfax and downtown. I also had ten kids working for me hawking papers for tips. I used my '54 Ford pickup for delivery and made several times what my peers in high school could make.

A few years later, I made some rum runs to Juarez in my Lotus and remember buying 25 cent per gallon gas at several stations. I also passed four radar cars at speed and not one chased me. Hot rod kid. I wouldn't consider it now, even though I still have a lead foot.

In 1983, I went to the Lyons post office to pick up my first M1 Garand sent from the Dept. of the Army, DCM out of Anniston. My later M1 rifle came via the CMP.

[Clint45]

In the 80s, I remember it cost $8 to fill the tank of my car... but my pay was 3.35 an hour... now I make $20 an hour and it costs over $50. Cost of groceries seems to have increased an average of 40% since COVID.

[Tinelement]

I remember waayyyy back in ‘19 when my commercial property taxes were $5400. Looking at $18,000 now. No better way to shut down small business. You’ll own nothing and you’ll like it..

[JoeRoss]

Gart Bros on Broadway.
First hunting rifle.
3 barrels of Mil-surp rifles, 1st one was $9.99, second was $19.99, third was $29.99.
I could only afford the $9.99, picked one out, took it to the counter, asked for (and got) a box of ammo.
Paid for it and walked out the door.

Didn't ask for ID for age, no background check, they didn't worry that I had a rifle AND the ammo for it, INSIDE the store.
Obviously before LBJ's GCA of "68"
Damn I must be getting old.

Ya, prices AND times have changed.

[BPTactical]

Bought my 1st AK from the Gunroom when it was at 10th & Broadway next to a pawn shop (NW quadrant).
Norinco Type 56 Circle 386 spiker NIB for 189.00 OTD.
Rode the RTD bus home with it because my Mustang had a flat.

[flogger]

Gart Bros on Broadway.
First hunting rifle.
3 barrels of Mil-surp rifles, 1st one was $9.99, second was $19.99, third was $29.99.
I could only afford the $9.99, picked one out, took it to the counter, asked for (and got) a box of ammo.
Paid for it and walked out the door.

Didn't ask for ID for age, no background check, they didn't worry that I had a rifle AND the ammo for it, INSIDE the store.
Obviously before LBJ's GCA of "68"
Damn I must be getting old.

Ya, prices AND times have changed.

What kind of gun did you get? I just remember them having well-worn wood and being long.

[flogger]

Scotties on East Colfax always had some nice stuff back in the day! I remember his cheap wire wrapped SMLE grenade launcher rifles.