G'day, Gents.

For general edification, I have carefully deconstructed an original 1939 Stoeger Catalog with the purpose of sharing images on informative 'sites such as NitroExpressForums. These will be at 400dpi, I also have them stored at 1200dpi.

A. F. Stoeger was a major firearms and sporting goods retailer in the United States by 1939. Their 'Catalog No. 31' was titled as the 'New York World's Fair Jubilee Issue'.

Sporting life was good in the U.S., with vast untamed acreage (many hectares) and the only significant regulations at the time being the National Firearms Act of 1934 (required special Federal licensing and tax stamps to possess fully automatic firearms - written primarily to regulate the Thompson SMG) and the newly implemented act of 1938 which required licensing for dealers of firearms and defined persons who would be denied purchase of firearms (felons, et. al.).

Those who weren't working for Capone, Dillinger, or on a similar 'career path' were generally unaffected.

What would become the Second World War was but distant news from faraway lands and was of concern mostly to politicians, Lend Lease profiteers and to veterans of 'The War to End All Wars' who had dared hope they'd put an end to such nonsense.

First, credit where due, the catalog covers and introductory pages.

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Hope you enjoy, more to come.