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1 posted on 08/18/2008 3:36:34 AM PDT by sig226
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2 posted on 08/18/2008 3:38:19 AM PDT by sig226 (Obama '08 - No, You Can't.)
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When my son was a baby, he launched a few missiles...


3 posted on 08/18/2008 3:38:57 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, we're still retarded.)
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To: sig226

BTTT


4 posted on 08/18/2008 3:55:10 AM PDT by JDoutrider (Obama: The Hype and Chains candidate)
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To: sig226

Excellent post!!!


6 posted on 08/18/2008 5:32:33 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (National Enquirer - The paper of record.)
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I wonder if anybody was thinking about the Crap Cannon in ‘58.


8 posted on 08/18/2008 6:21:53 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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I gotta get me one of those Dardick guns with the triangular bullets.


9 posted on 08/18/2008 6:24:49 AM PDT by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: sig226
Thanks, for the walk down memory lane.

10 posted on 08/18/2008 6:36:15 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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Thanks for that. Takes me way back.


11 posted on 08/18/2008 7:30:48 AM PDT by dljordan
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Screw the "guns of the future", I want some of those "guns of the past". Especially at the prices of the past.

I know the dollar was probably worth 10x as much then, but I would still pay $750 in today's dollars for the super-fancy, ultra-rare Circassian walnut stock blanks.

Looking from 1958 to today, they could comprehend the mechanical part of "modern" weapons (other than why the US abandoned the M1911). Modern sights and night vision would be mind-blowing, due to advances in computers, electronics, and optics.

And, of course, there are far more computerized machines making weapons today, and fewer human craftsmen.

12 posted on 08/18/2008 8:01:42 AM PDT by 300winmag (Deterrence is an activity, Destruction is a profession)
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What fun going through that 1958 Gun magazine.

Thanks!


14 posted on 08/18/2008 11:46:51 AM PDT by RJL
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