20 years ago when i got into firearms there was soooo much cool shit to be had and i was making $4.75/hr lol
I go into gun stores now or check out the latest NRA mag and its all ghey AR variants, pistols with braces, or micro-wonder 9s from some former Soviet Bloc country or Turkey being sold by an American manufacturer.
I miss the days of having more guns i wanted than i could afford.
Eh. You should've seen gun stores before the AR craze. It was all hunting rifles, sport pistols, and 1911's. Armalite revolutionized everything and helped modernize it with Glock and S&W.
Edit: you can always do what my buddy did and get into making your own ammo. Maybe take an online gunsmithing course. People laugh about those courses, but I know plenty of former Marines and Sailors who now build and service firearms on the side for real good money.
Oh believe me we had a GOOD gun shop to offset all the Fudd shops. Went there to buy a bolt action deer rifle at 18, left with an AK