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Back in my much younger days, MW sold milsurp rifles of many types. At least at my local store. They also carried a good variety of new long guns.They did not sell handguns due to a local city law situation.
 
What DWalt said. I can remember going into a MW store back in the early 60's and they had barrels of milsurp guns and ammo. I really wanted an M1 carbine but my dad, a WWII vet, sneered at them and said they weren't much of a gun. Audi Murphy movies made me want one of those M1's soooo bad.
 
I like Monkey Wards guns too..
a simple shotgun tweaked into a tribute to my uncle Vern by an artist friend into what you see.. it's a fake... so I had him stamp my late uncle's name on it to prove that..
 

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I remember, as a teenager, going to the Woolworths in downtown Miami and buying a surplus Spanish Mauser rifle and a bunch of old 7mm ammo. I then got on the bus and took it home unwrapped. Much later, when the Ruger Number 1 rifle first came out, I bought one at Toys R Us.

Bob
 
fiasconva said:
What DWalt said. I can remember going into a MW store back in the early 60's and they had barrels of milsurp guns and ammo. I really wanted an M1 carbine but my dad, a WWII vet, sneered at them and said they weren't much of a gun. Audi Murphy movies made me want one of those M1's soooo bad.
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My father was also not a fan of the carbine. He was a Lt (FO/Reconnaissance Officer) with an infantry (313th of the 79th) cannon company which had been hurriedly redeployed to counter an enemy offensive. During an attack they ended on the front line in the middle of the night (France, Jan 11, Winter 44/45 Part of the Battle of Reipertswiller and Operation Nordwind).

His carbine failed on him when checking on the guys he'd assigned to a forward post during the previous night. It was a bad spot unfortunately. They didn't make it and he almost didn't. He got away with a bullet through the left arm.

His carbine failed while he was pined down with an enemy sniping at him, with him unable to return fire when he got hit in the arm. His guys opened fire so he could run back to his line. He never carried a carbine again, choosing to carry the heavier Garand on his FO duties. He had nothing good to say about the carbine for the rest of his life.

For that reason I was never interested in a carbine which I now regret. I wish I'd picked one up when they were reasonable.

Sorry, I got long winded.
 
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fiasconva said:
What DWalt said. I can remember going into a MW store back in the early 60's and they had barrels of milsurp guns and ammo. I really wanted an M1 carbine but my dad, a WWII vet, sneered at them and said they weren't much of a gun. Audi Murphy movies made me want one of those M1's soooo bad.
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Firearms were thought of differently prior to 1968.
 
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