Long Branch T transit chest

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Acme Surplus Toronto.

Army and Navy sold No.4's for $9.95 and Jungle carbines for $24.95
98 K Mausers were $29.95
Sporterized SMLE's were $15.95 and went on sale once a month for $12.96
Never saw any No.4 T's at the A & N and I was in charge of rifle sales from 1958 to mid 60's
Edmonton Tire had No.4T's at $99.95 later $125.00, as did WW Arcade
Cannot remember what I had for breakfast but the prices stuck with me... : -)##

Can one imagine winding the clock back to the days Warren speaks of, when so many different shops were selling off surplus firearms.....when people didn't look at you like you were growing horns out of your head just because you might be interested in firearms. When one could walk into a shop where the rifles were so abundant and the shelf space was so limited that they were jamming Enfields into pickle or whiskey barrels. I remember as a young boy going shopping with my Mother at the local mall on Friday evenings and I would slip away from her sight and go and look at those barrels full of Enfields at Simpson Sears, yes that was in the local shopping mall!!!! In our so called liberated, modern, progressive age firearms are looked at as evil murdering devices that our governments want to control to the point death by bureaucratic strangulation because they feel they do not have total control untill we the citizenry are totally unarmed. Yet on the other hand freedom is expressed in totally new ways....we celebrate in our streets and promote in public education a mindset that didn't exist when I was younger. I am talking about social engineering!!!!
An example here in Canada of bureaucratic strangulation is when are classes of firearms where ownership is grandfathered to those who had possession before a certain date and after that deadline has passed the class is closed to new potential owners. When the grandfathered owners pass on.... so will all those classes firearms ( full autos, converted autos and short barreled handguns). Your once expensive investment will be reduced to a pool of molten metal at the local steel mill. I feel especially for our friends in England and Australia where government attacks on private gun ownership seemed but all to have killed the industry. It is proven time and time again that legal gun owners are the most law abiding citizens, but sadly we are seen as an evil threat to the very people we elect to govern us, what a oxymoron!!!!
Sorry I know I am a bit off topic but I'm having a few cold ones and felt the need for a good rant!!!!