Back in the 80s I was just inside the door at the OGCA meeting in Columbus when I overheard two guys negotiating over a Winchester 22lr. The numbers seemed really high to me so after a friendly inquiry I got a brief education from these fellows about the markings or absence of them.
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I don't think you can maintain a modern war for very long. High lethality combined with high to hit probability means that the supply of sophisticated weapons disappears quickly. I could see war in steps where the modern stuff is used up way faster than logistics can keep up and you have to...
I'm not expecting much until there is a big turnover in leadership at the national and state level. Joe & Co will deliver cash to their leadership which will pocket most of it flipping a quarter to their constituents, maybe saying "don't spend it all in one place".
They will beat their pots and...
Much of what I see today, I remember from the late 70s. I always felt that Carter was in over his head in that job, and at a bad time in American history.
EVs actually have a future as a charge at home short range car for commuters. It all depends on what you use a car for.
Sadly though I see the chinese grabbing this segment of the market leaving American EVs priced out of it. American car companies may see this as the future and are going along...
Modern guns no, what I meant was that on old guns "government property" marks were removed in the past. With this nickle plated Black Army, the stamp was just never there.
Can't speak for modern times, but missing markings on Colt 1911s go all the way back to the Black Army missing it's government property stamp. Not common, but it happens.
I know some will say that this was ground off, and that did happen, but not in every case.
They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place.
Blue Collar 1978
I've always liked the SRC version of rifles, Saddle Ring Carbine for those that don't know. I always see them as more working guns, shorter, lighter, and easier handling than their rifle versions. These Winchesters are probably the most common, the 1892 and 1894 versions. All of these are from...