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I missed that tragedy by about a minute, came in for lunch and when I turned on the TV the incident had just occurred, the pieces were beginning to fall from the sky as I watched. I had an afternoon Chem lab right after lunch, I skipped that to continue watching the coverage on TV. When I finally went in about an hour and a half late, the entire class was sitting in the lab watching the feed. For several years afterwards, while teaching high school I heard numerous stories from kids who were watching it unfold while in elementary school, due to the whole "teacher in space" thing. It essentially became that generation's "where were you when ..." moment, similar to the Kennedy assassination years earlier ...

I watched it live, easily the most impressive performance I ever saw from a racehorse ...

As I recall, yes. Now you need a toolkit and an engineering degree to open the damn things ...

Probably because there wasn't anything on TV other than the Watergate hearings ...

I saw Star Wars in a theater in Jackson, Tn. on Day 1, although I'm not sure if it was May 25th or not (Jackson never seemed to be at the forefront of movie distributions). I was 16, drove there myself, there were maybe 20 people in the theater that night as nobody in that area had ever heard of Star Wars before. A week later, I drove by the same theater, the line stretched around the block ... I haven't missed a theatrical release of a Star Wars movie since ...

It's mostly advertised between $140-200 per can now, not much for sale and even less being actually sold ...

I'll take "B" ..

You mean it didn't? I know there was a late night TV show about that once ...

But it's the crazy conspirators who get the best threads going ...

Did I miss something? I didn't think the guy was anywhere near a ban yet, albeit I did think that it was inevitable ...

For most firearms, it's definitely a buyers market. The "panics" of the last few years created artificial demand, with huge increases in sales for virtually all guns, now we are seeing the results of those sales by drastically reduced demand. As for the Mosin market, the primary sources of cheap imports have dried up in the last few years, what you see now is mostly guns being sold on the secondary market. As with other milsurps in the past, once the flood of imports ends, prices go up correspondingly. There are a few Mosins being advertised now by AIM, Classic, Century and others, it's uncertain whether these represent some small shipments of recent imports, or more likely, the last remaining crates of older guns which have been in storage stateside for years.

Hard to tell from the OP's pic, but the bolt looks like it might be blued. It's possible that this rifle started out as a Finn, which would make the sacrilege even more egregious ...

Since when is "need" applicable to gun purchases?

These are some of the firearms used in WWII ...

I had no idea the Nazis ever invaded Linden ...

Meh. Why try to duplicate the ballistics of 357mag? Just buy a decent revolver ...

One of my favorites:

You, for one, as well as all the rest of us ...

Except it's hard to ask 3 grand for a 300BO AR ...

It takes an especially confused and conflicted person to even contemplate eating something like that ...

Roughly 30 years too early for a Thing ...

Good choice. GJ does good work ...

Then double that size ...