Can’t find a decent Mosin Nagant anywhere right now. Just those crappy Chinese knock-offs. I even bought two boxes of cartridges for the one I had on reserve, but the guy at the gun shop told me this... They had the Mosins in a barrel by the front door for $119. Guys were coming in with $1500 looking for AR’s and when they couldn’t find them, were grabbing 2 or 3 Mosins on their way out of the store.
***They had the Mosins in a barrel by the front door for $119.***
Sigh; I remember seeing barrels of British .303s and German 8MM “Commission” Mausers for $10-15 back in the early 1960s.
Winchester. Savage and Remington could not compete with Army surplus so Thomas J Dodd and Emanuel Cellar decided to call for Federal registration of handguns only, AND a ban on army surplus rifles by demonizing them.
You could also buy Civil War bayonets, Martini Henrys and Remington Rolling Block rifles for a few bucks.
Cash and carry. No paperwork.