[central_va]

I could have bought a BRAND new M-14 (in box never fired manuals everything)in the 1980’s for 400 bucks. Why didn’t I do that?

[libstripper]

I didn’t quite do that but did buy a M1A in 1986 for $650.00. Then there was the horrible TBA. In 1968 I shot Expert in Officers’ Basic with a M14. I’d have bought it on the spot if I could have.

[WayneS]

I did not do it then because at the time I did not have a spare $400.

[RipSawyer]

I could have bought new Garands and M-1 carbines in the sixties for something like sixty bucks apiece, why didn’t I buy a dozen of each?