You know most of "us" are middle class but didn't start out that way. I got out of the service in '90, been married 1 year and had a kid on the way..Money was tight! I work 3 jobs, Stock clerk, taxi driver and volunteer firefighter. Plus i was going to school for a EMT cert. I'm not here to blow...
Check Blythe's Sport Shop, they'll match or beat the price. 300.oo to deliver. They have a motorized lift, put it where ever you want, GREAT GUYS...I got a Liberty last year. 2,000.oo w/ delivery, had some paint on the front that wasn't right, they took off 300.oo for the defect!!!
I know it's sickening, I paid 19.99 @ the Porter County gun show last weekend. ZX Guns out of Goshen are the best! But I did pay 12.99 back in the day...THAT was August 2012!
Same thing happened to me BUT, I was buying a Ruger 10/22 on a Saturday night....Might be a back log.......They called the next morning and said sale was ok'ed.