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Old 06-19-2017, 08:46 PM
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....... I have no idea as to what the agreed-upon price for a single revolver was for that transaction, but probably not far from $25. So it would have taken maybe 40,000 revolvers to satisfy the debt. That number could have easily been produced during the first few months of 1941, before the L-L Act passed. Maybe someone else knows more about that.
Your estimate is about right. There are no prices on any BSR letters I've seen, but according to my letter for 910507, a .38 Spl. 4-incher, from Jan 27, 1942, the DSC was billed $23.79 per gun. Price calculations for the BSR likely were comparable.
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