Growing up in the late 60s and early 70s, I will tell you there were a LOT of surplus guns around, mostly German and Italian and French 32s and 380s and a few 9mms, plus the cheap Rossis, Jennings, FIE and EXCAM guns, and the older cheap cowboy guns, and a lot of older Iver Johnson, H&R and US Cycle Works top breaks. We had older Bulldogs and cheap throwaways like American Arms. Every now and then somebody would dig out Gramma's old Remington derringer or Webley. We always had handguns around, but not very many good ones. Sure, we saw Colts and S&W and Llamas and Stars and P38s, but there were more Glisentis and Walthers and Nambus and other old mitary guns. Later on into the 80s we had Rugers and Dan Wessons, but in the early 70s there were a lot of garbage surplus guns around in various states of operational ability.