On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Doug Kanter wrote:

> "zxcvbob" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Lena B Katz wrote:
>>
>>> So, how much does a reasonably good gun run? ;-) (sorry for mixing parts
>>> of the thread).
>>
>> Rifle, shotgun, or pistol?
>>
>> Let's put in in the context of your $30 lowball guess.
>
> I think she picked $30 because she saw a price like that in a newspaper
> article about Saturday night specials, which nobody in their right mind
> would buy.

Actually, I just guessed. ;-). It was an educated guess, based on a
mugger being willing to sell his gun(to the people he was mugging) for
$200 in D.C. in the '90s.

Lena

trying to buy the gun off the mugger... that, my friend, is chutzpah.