I bought my first new S&W in June, 1965, a Model 18-2 .22 Combat Masterpiece. That means that a gun that I bought new becomes a Curio and Relic this year according to BATFE rules! I've probably shot this gun more than any other handgun that I own and used it in bullseye competition in the 1960's and 1970's. I just put 50 rounds through it this morning and it's as good as it was 50 years ago. I wish I was!

Anyone else out there with a gun they bought new that's become a C&R?

I bought the gun at a discount store called Caldor in Hamden, CT. The price was $74 with 10% off, which was $66.60. That's about $500 in today's dollars. I've still got the box, papers, and screwdriver.

Nice, sadly I don't have any of the ones I first bought.

Glad you do!

Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary!! Want to sell it? Only fooling, I actually have one. I bet there are a lot of us, including me, that had our original handguns, boxes & paperwork.

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No I don't. I've only been a relic, myself, for a little less than couple years, and curio is debateable.

I just became C&R eligible last May having turned 50 myself..ha ha...
Not all S&W's on the C&R list are over 50 years old as the C&R list includes many newer commemorates as well.

Good point about the commemoratives. Personally, I've never been attracted to those guns.

Now that you're over 50, you can ship yourself to an out-of-state buyer! Congratulations!

Back in the summer of 1965 I was working on a road maintenance crew as a summer job for college students. One of the older guys, a WWII vet, was looking for a deer rifle and wanted to trade an old "bring back" P-38 for the rifle. I had an old Enfield in .303. We traded he was happy and I had my first semi-auto pistol. It was a well used 9mm with a Mauser 1943 date code and no finish. It shoots like a dream, I still have it. The story that goes with the P-38 is that he took it off a Nazi major who was walking down the railroad track to visit his girlfriend, only he didn't know the GIs had moved up in the night. He gave up without a fight. I have had it all these years with no plans to ever give it up.

I still have my first .22 from the early 50s - Mossberg 140K.

It was the mid-70's when I bought my first firearm as a young teen.