Classic Gun ads

[cincinnatijim]

Anyone remember the ads for DEWAT Sten guns selling for $14.99? Supposedly some folks repeatedly dropped ball bearings down the barrel until the mandatory plug dropped out. A few folks in NM reportedly used this process then hunted rabbits with them. ATF wised up pretty quickly and then a torch cut was used to ruin the bolt. Then there were those ads for Carcano carbines with scopes until President Kennedy was assassinated. I remember those .22 rifle ads in Boy's life. Sure wish I had kept my copies.

 

[feralmerril]

Anybody but me remember buying a comic book in the 50s that on one page would sell deactivated plugged barrel thompsons, and a few pages later another ad was selling new barrels for your thompson!
That was some off beat comic, it also showed how to make knucks out of milk can handels!

 

[David LaPell]

I like to collect alot of old gun ads, the nicest ones are in frames or will be, the rest in plastic sleeves in a 3 ring binder. Here are a few.

 

[Forester]

Here is a whole collection of them:

Hunting & Guns - Subject (Advertising Art) - Period Paper

Link stolen from Bmcgilvray