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War is Boring ^ | November 15, 2016 | Matthew Moss

[doorgunner69]

Geez, funky hats................

[Oatka]

When I was a youth, 1950’s, one could purchase these by mail.

Back in the '50s I received a .310 Australian Martini and later a 7.35 Carcano carbine wrapped in newspaper and wired to a thin plank being delivered by the Post Office to my folk's apartment in NYC.)

Read 'em and weep (keep in mind that in those days, $50-$60 a week was good money):


(I remember seeing an ad by Ye Olde Hunter(?) showing a guy picking off cars on the then-new freeways. It was tongue-in-cheek, but it had the liberals clutching their pearls. (Note that Californians had to add 3% sales taxe.)).

and finally . . .

(Wipes tear from eye.)

[RandallFlagg]

Those two ads were in the book Unintended Consequences by John Ross.