Originally Posted By: Saskbooknut
While many companies did not make the guns they sold, intelligent commissioning of outworkers and makers to the trade produced very high quality guns indeed.
Brand value has to do with resale or bragging rights, while original quality and high condition will yield more value per dollar invested, in a gun that you actually use and enjoy. IMHO.


Exactly!!!!

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia