"I Burned Guns You'd Buy"

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Here's a link to the June 1959 Edition of "Guns". On pages 28-30 there's a short article about how the US Army disposed of captured firearms. There are many other interesting articles, and an Ad on Page 3.

Mobile and slow-speed Internet user warning! The file is a 37 MB PDF.

http://jeffersonian.name/g1959/G0659.pdf
 
A tragic tale of woe, to be sure.

On a larger scale, factory fresh warbirds were broken up for scrap or sold for the fuel in the tanks to farmers about the same time the writer was committing firearms genocide. Now a factory-fresh P51, if you could find one, is worth millions. A flyable Lanc, to match the Mynarski Memorial and the BBMF Lanc, would run a number ordinarily associated with Zimbabwe inflation money.

That magazine is really something. An article on hunting golden eagles. An ad for guns of the Belgian Congo, featuring a black dude in a grass skirt. Somewhere, Tom Mulcair just had a chill run up his spine...
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
On a larger scale, factory fresh warbirds were broken up for scrap or sold for the fuel in the tanks to farmers about the same time the writer was committing firearms genocide. Now a factory-fresh P51, if you could find one, is worth millions. A flyable Lanc, to match the Mynarski Memorial and the BBMF Lanc, would run a number ordinarily associated with Zimbabwe inflation money.
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I remember when I went to the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas they said that the B-17 they have was built at the very end of the war and was ordered to be scrapped immediately (it hadn't even been delivered yet). Luckily the French bought it and eventually it made its way back to the US.
 
the prices are enough to make ya cry 1000 dollars worth of guns purchased back then could
get me a nice retirement now
Now gets ya a decent scope
tell me the worlds economy is in good shape right
 
Man.... I was doing fine till he started talking about burning Belgian 1889s and Hungarian 35Ms. I looked for my 1889 for 10 years and I still can't find a 35M!
 
This add caught my attention on pg.61

".22 L.R. SHORT
LEE ENFIELD (S.M.L.E.)
The Bisley Marksman Favorite. Only a small quan·
tity originally manufactured in the popular .22 caliber for military training and competition. Complete
your ENFIELD collection with this rarest of illl
Enfields. (V.G. to excel.) Only $24.50. 2 for $45.00.
.303 Latest Issue Short Lee Enfield No.4 service rifle,
lO-shot, detachable magazine, nitro-proofed. (V.G. to
Excel.). $13.75. 2 for $25.00..30-06 U. S. Enfield
(~Ifg. by Winchester, Remington, Eddystone), 6-shot.
Strongest .30-06 action ever built-ammo available
everywhere. Only $29.50. 2 for $55.00. As deluxe
sporter $4.00 each additional. (V.G. to ExceL)"
 
a few years back (mid 90s) the french were required (by the US) to destroy a large number of ww2 vehicles and weapons that were on a 50 year loan to them. they had freshly restored (to return in original condition) shermans being cut to pieces, the americans refused to allow military equipment to be sold outside the US
 
time for a reality check
Mid 50,s I was a licensed tradesman. kept $5 for myself for gas, cigs, and coffee....gave the other $45 to the wife.
Raised two kids, bought and paid for a house and managed to buy an old car every few years.....
Who the heck had $29 to blow on an old gun?
And I was relitivly well paid for my trade
 
$9.50 for a box of 100rds of 9mm in 1959 - WoW that is expensive! You could have bought a decent house back then for about 200 boxes. Good luck even getting a decent shed for 2000 rds of 9mm now.
 
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