Welcome to the Files from Montana!
Also...welcome to your new addiction, as the tattoo shops care sheet usually says.
Totally run with your wife's acceptance as long as it lasts...it will run out. TRUST me.
I have yet to get an M59...but there is one in a dusty shop corner, and a difficult to reach shop due to turrible infrastructure...if it is there some time I am liquid, it is going to be number 13 for me. As long as I have had SKSs, that is a low number.
It might be a little more difficult in Kalifornia, I visited there recently and was slack jawed seeing an identical, but crappier version of my already crappy shotgun for nearly five bills. Gladly, sort of, I didn't see any SKSs...a few miles north in Oregon I saw only one...$400 for a 100 percent non matching Chinese....in a plastic stock.
Suggestion...this M59 is for one of the boys, so obviously you will need one more there....but, the one after that is for your wife....that kind of drags out the acceptance a little longer. It helps if she finds them too heavy....then you can get a paratrooper...for her of course. Somewhere along the line of that...you might accumulate a couple extras for yourself.
You might find that your wife finds loading stripper clips to be relaxing....I just wish I didn't wait 15 years before letting mine....now she hounds
me about getting more ammo.