Posted on 11/21/2016 9:41:11 AM PST by w1n1
These vintage gun ads will have you Rolling on the Floor and show you just how much the world has changed in the past few decades. A lot has changed in the last century. Looking back at these vintage gun ads is a great way to highlight just how different our society is these days.
Vintage gun ads of the past reminds us of a simpler time, that era is not as complicated as it is now. However, there are some very entertaining ads when you think about the reaction some of these gun ads would get if they were published today.
Read on to see some of the funniest vintage gun ads ever made.
1. Not a Dull Vacation
It's nothing like having a .22 rifle and a pocketful of shells while on vacation.
2. Fun for the Whole Family,/b>
Before there was "Toys R Us" there was "Guns For Us" for Christmas: everybody gets a gun! Look at all those smiling faces!
3. He Knows if You've Been Naughty or Nice, The orginal "Bad Santa"
This vintage gun ad showing Santa driving a car full of rifles and shotguns really shows how much attitudes towards guns have changed since the first half of the 20th Century. That being said, I’d be pretty darn happy if he showed up at my house on Christmas like that.
A plate of cookies and a glass of milk in exchange for a rifle or a shotgun? Where do I sign up?
4. Handguns for Women
This is another example of a vintage gun ad that shows an era in which things have changed for the better, for women and guns. Women are one of the fastest-growing demographics in the sporting community and there are lots of highly skilled female shooters out there.
There are many great self-defense handguns for women today, many of which are specifically built and marketed for women. Can you imagine the reaction women shooters would have if a gun company made an advertisement for a gun marketed for them that referred to women as helpless, dangerous, or hysterical? See the rest of the vintage gun ads here.
Most vintage ads were a lot more fun, being completely devoid of PC cr@p.
Best deal ever!
Regarding the add of the shotgun and the gunner with twin-50s on a PT Boat. When my late father was trained to be a nose gunner on B-24s, part of the training was ridding around in the back of a truck on the Harlingen, TX race course, shooting skeet as the truck moved. He said having used a pump shotgun shooting birds during the depression was quite helpful.
My wife opted for a Kimber .45 ACP with Crimson Trace. She is freaky good with that thing. It is her packing pistol.
Not a Dull Vacation
“That’ll teach them to stay on their side of the lake!”
One of my brother’s friends had a Solothurn,Bruce had an L39 Lahti.
lol...we need more of this and less of muslims.
“When my late father was trained to be a nose gunner on B-24s,.......”
My late father was tail gunner on B-24’s. Navy, South Pacific. Shot down three times. Tore up his leg pretty good the last time, but he was OK. He lived to 87.
Me and my mini-me were shooting the Red Ryder yesterday , ,
still fun after all these years..
I really can’t see the humor in rights’ restrictions. Interesting ads however and a testament how far we’ve dropped.
I’ve wanted a Solothurn since I first read Unintended Consequences.
I still have my mid-1960’s Boy Scout manual. It is filled with gun ads.
I miss the real America...
I got to fire one of those once! Solothurn S18-1000.
I remember reading comic books in the 50s that had tons of ads for surplus military rifles for $20 each or so. Some for $9.95, iirc. All the comic books had such ads. No minimum age, no checking up on you. Nothing. Just send us our $20 and we’ll send you your rifle, no questions asked. I’m pretty sure I remember seeing Garands for $19.99, but most were foreign jobs. Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifle was a cheap mail order gun.
Anyway, twenty bucks was a stretch for me back then. I would’ve had to collect a lot of pop bottles or shovel a lot of snow to afford one. And where would I keep it? Under my bed? In my closet? For 15 years until I was all grown up and out on my own? No chance.
My dad, who was a WWII vet, would never have been able to keep his hands off it, and probably wouldn’t have let me keep it. Not after he found the bomb my little brother bought at a local second hand store for a dollar. The proprietor had never served a day in the military and didn’t know what he was talking about, but told my brother all the bombs he had for sale had been disarmed. Pops found out differently when he began looking closely at my brother’s bomb on the kitchen table. THAT caused some commotion, let me tell you.
Is it true you can get HE rounds that detonate on impact?
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