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Those ships have sailed already ...

Although I don't disagree that certain parts of the economy (maybe most?) are slowing, I suspect the main reason for discounting guns is due to falling sales as a result of the normal "boom and bust" nature of gun and ammunition sales. We've seen this before, many times; periods of "panic" buying and shortages followed by fire sales and increased inventories. The next step is typically bankruptcies of some of the manufacturers ...

Some good advice here regarding sanding/rubbing compound. The kits are just pre-packaged assortments of what you can source from any hardware store, normally at much lower prices. As with any restoration of paint/plastics, start with the most aggressive media you feel comfortable with, progress through finer grits or compounds until the desired results are achieved. I usually use wet or dry sandpaper, wet with plain water with a drop of Dawn dishwashing liquid, ,and finish off with a polish of some sort. Headlight restoration is much like reviving old paint, same methods for the same results.

I spent more than 30 years teaching in public schools. When I wasn't busy indoctrinating kids in left-wing, communist ideology or teaching my science/math classes, I also coached football. As such, I worked with hundreds of teenage boys over the years. Once ADHD and it's associated diagnoses and prescriptions became a "thing", a pediatrician in town became known as somewhat of a "specialist" in this field. I never knew of a single kid who was evaluated by this lady who was not diagnosed with some form of ADHD and prescribed Ritalin, or whatever drug was most fashionable at the time for their "condition". Normal adolescent behavior, particularly among the males in the school, was routinely being described as "abnormal" resulting in prescriptions being administered indiscriminately. Fortunately, over the years it became increasingly common for parents to reject these diagnoses and refuse to medicate their sons due to this lady's recommendations. It's also worth noting the total dollar revenues of these medications for both the pharmaceutical industry and the doctors prescribing them ...

Exactly. Ain't no free lunches ...

Dumasses ...

Kind of surprised me that it took as long as it did ...

Recently (as in the last several years) there has been some interesting research into what ultimately led to the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII. Reading through the minutes of the Imperial War councils immediately after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was little to no discussion about either of these cities being destroyed, or the methods employed to do so. It now seems that the final "nail in the coffin" which convinced the Japanese to throw in the towel was the Soviet declaration of war and the succeeding invasion of Japanese held territory by the Russians, rather than the use (or existence) of atomic weapons. To the Japanese, there appeared to be no significant difference between the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the many cities destroyed earlier by conventional bombing. Being potentially invaded by their traditional enemy Russia was another matter though ... Offered as an interesting historical aside, with no bearing on the current discussion. Please carry on ...

Nice rifle, and as Greg says an interesting piece of history. Having said all that, I can't resist adding ...

Add to that, getting rid of regular payments by check or card, using ACH transfers instead. All the benefits of card transactions, without the expense ...

You could probably say that about many politicians these days ...

This is, of course, true. However, at that time the price of gold was also set by government fiat, due to the declared rates for convertibility of gold to dollars. It's also true that 1933 was the year that ownership of gold by private citizens (other than exceptions for small amounts of jewelry, and some collectible coins) was outlawed in the US. Outstanding gold coins, gold bullion, as well as gold certificates and notes were required to be surrendered to the Treasury and replaced by dollar notes. US citizens were also forbidden to trade in gold elsewhere in the world. In 1934 the federal government repriced gold to $35/oz, partly to better reflect the real market value of the metal, but mostly to allow the Fed to increase the M1 money supply as a means to halt the devastating deflation resulting from the Depression. As such, I'm not sure that using the artificially derived price of gold in 1933 really bolsters your argument ...

It's kind of ironic that we're having a discussion about the relative merits of digital currencies on an internet forum ...