The IRS will be pleased with your response, Dean!

I wouldn't mind claiming my gains on my gun buys if they let me write off the losses on the rest of them. I'd probably come out way ahead.

Amen to that!

There were 2 dealers in the late 1960s and early 70s who have since passed away who made a living out of faking Parkers. Their work was much better than the ones shown here but they did the same thing. Bought damascus and lower grade guns and turning them into Parker special steel or titanic steel marked guns. They sold many of them at the old Las Vagas show for what then was big money.I still run into a few of them today.