[editor-surveyor]

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Sears quit selling guns a few months after you bought your rifle.

[umgud]

Montgomery-Ward sold long guns into the 70’s. I bought a 30-30 levergun from them some time after 1975.

[Lean-Right]

I know. It’s still disheartening
that an American institution succumbs
to the times. As a 12 year old, it
was a fine day when that rifle showed
up. I still have it.

[vladimir998]

“Sears quit selling guns a few months after you bought your rifle.”

Maybe by catalog because of the 1968 gun control act, but in the stores Sears sold firearms until 1983 or 1984.

[Larry Lucido]

Then they built that tower in 1970.

I remember visiting in 1974 and looking at the directory in the lobby. Couldn’t find “Sporting Goods.”

108 floors of prime real estate and I couldn’t even shop there?

[snoringbear]

“Sears quit selling guns a few months after you bought your rifle.” I’m 73; raised during my early years in my grandfathers farm in east Texas. Basically, subsistence living. Anyway, I can recall in the 50’s the arrival of the Sears and Roebuck catalog was a big event (as was Montgomery Wards). The women of the family would huddle around it and go through it page by page. Btw, back in those days Sears sold guns, boats, motors, cars, houses, and my favorite item which I couldn’t afford and never owned, an Allstate motor scooter. Oh well, too late now 😏...

[Carriage Hill]

My Dad bought me a $37.95 Mossberg 144LS .22cal bolt action in 1958 there, and I used it in NRA competition in the BSA for years. Still have it in pristine condition.

Can’t find any 5-rnd replacement mags for it, though. Last working mag on eBay went for $225 and I just missed it. Mine still functions, but occasionally jams.

[Yo-Yo]

Sears stopped selling guns through the catalog when the Gun Control Act of 1968 required sellers to be federally licensed and guns could no longer be mailed to your home.

In-store sales continued until mid 1980s, although only in some states.