That's because Hollywood is out of ideas and they have to continue borrowing yesterdays ideas to continue making movies. It's a shame, where did all the creative writers go? Apparently they've all died.
You could, but guns are one of the things burglars love to steal, so I'm not sure what it would accomplish.
But some of us ARE old enough. I remember the old tv/movie version with Clayton Moore (have 28 episodes). I'm not old enough to have listened to the radio versions when they were first broadcast, but I currently have 1,366 of the radio broadcasts on my computer. I think that is almost every recording known to exist (Out of over 3000 original broadcasts). I believe my collection is larger than the one in the national archives by about 150 broadcasts or so. My earliest one is from May 6th 1935 (episode 353) and my last one is May 4, 1955 I don't know the episode number on that one at the moment. The last one where I know the episode number is Sept 3, 1954 episode 3,377.
I think these are ok as a novelty, but I worry about resale. Imagine going to sell these 20 years from now and trying to convince the buyer that they are really made of pure silver. Guess you could weigh them, but just seems like it may be a hassle, or the buyer may not want to pay fair price (suspicious?). I dont know, maybe i worry too much... sticking with ASEs and Morgans myself.
I would guess that many calibers have outperformed silver and gold in price over the past decade, and probably will over the next decade.
At a Microsoft function last night, a fmr Zynga exec started his product design talk "How do you kill a vampire?" and showed us silver bullets and this: It fetched $12k at Sotheby's in 2003; another sold for $14,850. in June 2012: http://www.paganspace.net/group/the...ing-kit-sold-at-auction-for-14-850-in-natchez How to factor that niche collector in this product market? And what premium does a "prepper" place on this defense, lol