The Mayans were wrong

[dobeman]

or maybe historians misread their codes... however, you know the end is near when SKS's go for almost a grand.

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[samuelm16]

and 10/22's with nanner mags are advertised as assault rifles and listed for 1k

 

[jordanvraptor]

Future archaeologists will probably have some weird ideas about us if all they recover is a couple DVDs like Dark Knight and Die Hard...

Maybe the Obama era of gun buying will be remembered in history like Tulip speculation in the Netherlands was...

 

[coop44]

oh well, at least we have one thing the mayans didn't, toilet paper

 

[Fisher Bill]

Maybe they forgot to account for leap year?

 

[MountainBear]

I think the Mayans must have discovered tequila about the time they were working on their calender. Suddenly, carving rock became less important than that warm, happy tequila feeling...

 

[shakazulu12]

Maybe they forgot to account for leap year?

Really long and technical read, but it appears we just didn't think about what they actually meant.

The Actual Astronomy of 2012 - An essay by Thomas Razzeto

 

[Mark W.]

The Mayans weren't wrong about anything. They werent predicting anything. They just stopped chizeling out the calender.

 

[MountainBear]

The Mayans weren't wrong about anything. They werent predicting anything. They just stopped chizeling out the calender.

Like I said, Tequila...

 

[raindog]

Sigh...milsurps.

I have a Turk Mauser I bought in 1988 or so. I am pretty sure it was $25 at a gun show in East Michigan. Pulled it out of a barrel of Turks, all stored muzzle down (grrrr).

Today I could sell that for $400. I've seen them at gun shows, lovingly presented on felt - "please don't touch without asking".

Even Mosin-Nagants are going for $200 some places. Sheesh!

There's two separate things at work here:

• The current gun panic
• We haven't had a world war dominated by bolt-action rifles in a long while and the guns from the last one are pretty much gone.