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Originally Posted by Gary Carmichael Sr
... a marketing ploy to increase price on a certain steel, I guess most of these beautiful damascus barrels were destroyed can you imagine between Parker, Smith, Ithaca,and the other manufactures just how many that amounts too! Just thinking Gary
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Two points:
First, fluid steel barrels were a LOT cheaper to make. THAT was the driver to move away from Damascus. In a word, the issue was profit. Not public safety.
Second, Yes. ALL those "dangerous" Damascus barrels had to be destroyed/melted down for railroad spikes, etc. You can't dis an object for alleged danger, then allow a secondary market for it.
Lawyers won't allow that...
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