[with that price tag your close to repo. sharps etc.]
Apples/oranges. A good tractor cost more than a Corvette, but which one would you rather take dancing ?
Besides which, I've never paid MSRP for ANY new firearm, since my
SECOND gun, in 1961.
I just happened to run across it, and posted about it - that doesn't mean I'm championing it - it is what it is.
I made basically the same type rifle, from a Beretta 412 series Folding Shotgun, that I rebarreled to .44 Mag, back in the 70's.
But - that was then.
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