American Rifleman from 1967

[Dave_L]

My dad found this at the thrift store in Arizona. I haven't looked through all of it but gun prices seemed pretty good back then.

One article talks about "Best home defense gun". That made me chuckle as we still can't agree on that.

Just neat to look back in time on what was being discussed.



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[funkymonkey1111]

My dad found this at the thrift store in Arizona. I haven't looked through all of it but gun prices seemed pretty good back then.

One article talks about "Best home defense gun". That made me chuckle as we still can't agree on that.

Just neat to look back in time on what was being discussed.



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thanks for posting--it looks like the best gun for home defense is a pair of black powder pistols!

[OctopusHighball]

I have a ton of those from the early 70s, haven't looked at them in years. Need to dig them out and glance through them again.

P.S. I'll take about 20 of those NRA GOOD condition M1 Carbines for $69, and lets throw in 10 Garands for $130 a piece!

[Aloha_Shooter]

I have a ton of those from the early 70s, haven't looked at them in years. Need to dig them out and glance through them again.

P.S. I'll take about 20 of those NRA GOOD condition M1 Carbines for $69, and lets throw in 10 Garands for $130 a piece!

Yeah ... let's not forget the "one per lifetime" limit back then too ... I'll live with today's prices and limitations (although I'd prefer 2001's prices!).

[OctopusHighball]

Wasn't aware of the limit. Was it imposed by the NRA?

[crashdown]

I was in a used book store the other day and found a Soldier of Fortune magazine from when I was a kid (early 80's)
Not only did I own a couple of the blowguns advertised in the back when I was young, but I felt pretty lucky that I've owned at one point or another almost every gun featured in the magazine.

[Great-Kazoo]

Wasn't aware of the limit. Was it imposed by the NRA?

CMP. The NRA mention is the rating given to over all condition, think Blue Book of Gun Values.


As for Best Home Defense. Considering it was 1967, there really wasn't much available to the general public.

[rondog]

Wasn't aware of the limit. Was it imposed by the NRA?

The DCM (Director of Civilian Marksmanship, predecessor to the CMP) had that "one per lifetime" limit. My brother had a buddy that bought a USGI surplus M1911A1 for $17.50 from them. Sounds incredibly cheap now, but in the early 60's $20 was nothing to sneeze at. It still meant something back then.

[wctriumph]

In 1969 I remember walking from my Grandma's trailer (trailer park in Palmdale, CA) about a 1/4 mile to the little general store on the highway and buying a 50 round box of Western .22 LR for $.35! We would shoot jackrabbits in the alfalfa fields and the farmers would pay us $.10 per rabbit, most I made in a day was $1.20.