Exactly! I was in West Berlin 1966-1969. Bought 5 guns total from the Rod and gun club....all before the 1968 GCA... Dirt cheap in those days 3 long guns, a S & W revolver, the PPK NIB, and the Browning. What screwed the Browning was that it was ex-British military EVEN THOUGH IDENTICAL TO COMMERCIAL MODELS! That’s how diabolical that law was and that prick Johnson signed it! I regret not smuggling them back in my household goods. Everyone in military hated LBJ’s guts during Vietnam War for a variety of reasons.
At the Pentagon O 6’s are the coffee fetchers...terrible duty assignmrnt. Your dad did good making O 6.
That was a golden age of high quality but inexpensive firearms. Gone with the wind thanks to Lyndon Johnson.
But as the saying goes, karma’s a bitch. After leaving office in 1969, LBJ basically smoked himself to death & died of a heart attack short of turning 65. But his pernicious legacy is still with us.
I was stationed in Germany 1981-83. The Polizei were switching to compact 9mm’s, and their Walther PP’s & PPK’s were dumped on the civilian market, avg price $62.00. I will leave it at that.
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