To: Lean-Right
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Sears quit selling guns a few months after you bought your rifle.
4 posted on
10/12/2018 10:01:31 PM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: editor-surveyor
Montgomery-Ward sold long guns into the 70’s. I bought a 30-30 levergun from them some time after 1975.
11 posted on
10/12/2018 10:20:25 PM PDT by
umgud
To: editor-surveyor
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.
26 posted on
10/12/2018 11:12:26 PM PDT by
Lean-Right
(Eat More Moose)
To: editor-surveyor
“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.
32 posted on
10/13/2018 12:07:58 AM PDT by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: editor-surveyor; Lean-Right
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?
To: editor-surveyor
Sears quit selling guns a few months after you bought your rifle. Im 73; raised during my early years in my grandfathers farm in east Texas. Basically, subsistence living. Anyway, I can recall in the 50s 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 couldnt afford and never owned, an Allstate motor scooter. Oh well, too late now 😏...
44 posted on
10/13/2018 3:52:16 AM PDT by
snoringbear
(W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
To: editor-surveyor; Lean-Right
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.
56 posted on
10/13/2018 5:41:45 AM PDT by
Carriage Hill
(Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
To: editor-surveyor; Lean-Right
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.
62 posted on
10/13/2018 5:59:34 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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