Interesting concept.  I wonder how many of these are still floating around.

Nice looking gun, I must say.  I'd like to see one in the flesh, sometime.

I almost forgot the weekly vintage gun ad.  This one is not for a firearm, but is actually an ad for the steel company that made the steel used in these four different shotguns.

I was prepping the vintage pipe ad for tomorrow and noticed this one that didn't fit into any category, so I'll just put it up now because I find it interesting.  This ad for San Antonio tourism is from the 1940s.  Notice the drawing of the skyline at top right.  Before the Tower of Americas, when the most recognizeable mark was that other tall building downtown (what is that?  I forgot).  Also no ZIP Code or two-letter state designation.  Most noticeable is "visit colorful San Antonio on the Pan-American Highway to Old Mexico."  Most of the old Pan-American Highway was destroyed by the building of IH-35.  There is still a strip of it east of the 35/10 interchange, serving mostly as frontage for the interstate, and there are still several small businesses and homes there with Pan-American Highway street addresses.

I would really like to get my hands on a map of San Antonio from before the interstate system was built.  There are a few old streets that were completely wiped out by the interstates.  In my job delivering final cut-off notices, I had to spend quite some time one day searching for a house that still had an address on one of these disappeared streets.  I finally found it by finding the meter itself and verifying the meter number.  It appeared to be on a different street.  Back in the olden days, it was on an intersection that was shaped sort of like a slanted "T."  There was nothing left of the old street which bore the house's address except what looked like a large driveway.

This is a weird shotgun.  A cursory G00gl3 search hasn't turned up the exact production dates, and Armalite's own FAQ page is totally blank.

However, there is an informative post on The High Road from someone who bought one.

This shotgun is aluminum and plastic.  Even the barrel is aluminum.  The stocks are hollow plastic.

The person posting on THR mentions that he didn't think it was marketed as a field gun, but rather as a skeet gun.  I think the above ad shows that it was in fact marketed as a field gun.

The oddest thing about this shotgun is that, although it is an auto-loader, it can only hold two shots--one in the chamber and one in the tiny "magazine."

Read the whole THR post linked above for all the details on this odd shotgun.

Another weird gimmick that probably sold a bunch of pipes.  "Adjustable flow regulator," indeed.

Notice "exact amount of smoke for your taste and throat."  This "throat" thing has always seemed odd to me, because I don't inhale (no, really).  I just sip and puff.  I've always wondered what the ratio is of pipe smokers who inhale to those who don't.

A Ruger Blackhawk in .357 magnum was one of the first handguns I ever shot, many moons ago.  Someday I'll have to get one of these for my own.