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Old 08-15-2018, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by codenamedave View Post

- I can believe that a good portion of the then-shooting public might've been turned off by the "strictly police officer's sights" line. As mentioned, back then in the pre-Cooper/Weaver days, using the sights at all in a defensive shooting was practically heresy, and competition-wise Bullseye was pretty much the only game in town. Both factors would lead to a user not wanting to spend money on custom mods to make dim alley shooting more accurate, and that's besides want we'd call nowadays "for law enforcement use only" prohibitions.
This is an excellent point and I believe exactly right. I'm annoyed it didn't occur to me before you spelled it out.
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