The rifle was produced from the late 70's though November 1988. The final retail cost for a base rifle in 1988 was in the range of $9,000 not $12, 500 like you have written on your page. He said the price never went that high while in production. That document that you have must be extremely old because there were more than 72 produced. Earl told me that there were precisely 176 WA2000's produced total. He also told me that there are only 15 units in the U.S., and that he owns 11 of them, and only one other party owns the other 4. The most amazing thing to me having this conversation though was that he offered me one of the rifles to purchase. He offered me one NIB (new in box) for approximately $75,000! YIKES