Yes, they had some very nicely done catalogs and advertising.
I’ve told the story before, but essentially I was an 11B in Ranger Bn and wanted a 44 Automag. My buddy was the same and wanted a Bren 10. This was the 80s.
There was an older guy that had been in Ranger Bn as an 11B, went to the Q course, became an 11BS Green Beret, came back for Plarron Serveant time in order to make E8, went back to SF to be a Team Sergeant, came back for 1SG to help make E9, (but ended up retiring. He was from the area. (And also obviously he started when SF was a feeder MOS with S identifier in stead of its own 18 series MOS and full career track.). And his gig was to be the pawn shop right outside of the gates FFL and become an SOT for his toys, etc. And he still made a living but was best deal in anything in town for guys from his former unit.
We were young and dumb and he explained to me that the gun I wanted didn’t really shoot 44 Magnum, was very expensive, not being made anymore, ammo was a pain in the ass, etc. and showed me the DE. And for 800 bucks, a months pay after taxes for me then, and close to 2K in today’s dollars.
My buddy was told how the Bren was also in a mess production and availability wise and the magazine shortages, etc. and showed him a delta elite. He bought that and the era Norma full power 10mm ammo.
At some point after we went another retired 11BS’s house who ran a side gun smithing business out of a room in his house. Back then when you bought a new 1911 style pistol it needed polishing of the feed ramp, extractor tuning, ejection port work, etc. to run fully reliably and feed hollow points, etc.
This was the kind of guy who had stamped stuff and built ARs when it was VERY uncommon compared to now. The sort of dude that answers his door with a Witness Protection 870 in hand and gets buddies to group buy ammo by the pallet, etc. And also a SOT that had whipped upped hundreds of AR-15 DIAS to sell before the registry closed. Think 40 year old perennial bachelor with a medallion, cool shades, popped collar, bunch of undone buttons, banging drunk chicks from bars half his age every night driving a corvette magnum PI looking dude. Anyways, he had a bunch of Aimpoint 1000s to sell and ordered me the mount for the DE.