Years ago I never worried about this ****
You walk into a Shriners hall in Ca, plunk down $150 and they hand you an M1 carbine.
When I was a kid if you could get cash on the counter they would sell you a shotgun at the Western Auto.
Its all shifting now and I don’t like it at all.
When I was a kid in the 60s I used to pore over the gun magazines. They all had ads for surplus guns at some great prices even adjusted for inflation.
I was attending High School and working part time at a filling station. I managed to order a 7mm Chilean Mauser. A 6.5 Swedish Mauser, an Astra 600 complete with holster and spare mag. Also a Radom, an early model at that.
That Chilean Mauser was beautiful but the Chilean Government had ground off the crest which ruined it’s value to me. It was a great shooter too.
The Radom had a broken hook on the extractor. It still functioned about half the time. I took it to a large gunsmith shop in Pensacola. They thought they could either make a new one or alter one. They never did so I picked it up and later traded it.