Posted on 07/02/2016 1:07:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Evidently, you haven’t read Gersh Kuntzman’s “article”...LOL
Here it is...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/firing-ar-15-horrifying-dangerous-loud-article-1.2673201
It actually just rolled out on it’s own, I didn’t even realize it was in there until it did. All the sudden a blood coated BB rolled out on to the floor.
We were tough in those days. didn’t go to doctors unless we were bleeding out.
When I was a kid, we played “Army” and used BB guns and we’d take pieces of aluminum foil, put gravel in it and wad it around a cherry bomb for “grenades”...
We didn’t injure anyone, but it stung like hell....
Author was so shaken he forgot to tell everyone that some BB guns have magazines large enough to permit firing as many as 650 shots without reloading!! Just think of the number of street lights, pop bottles, and errant sparrows that could be used against!
Isn’t it time we finally BAN assault BB Guns!?!?!
One of the classic 1960’s Crossman ‘Powermaster’ 760 BB/Pellet pumpers!?
http://thelatinahomemaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Gift-For-Boys-Red-Ryder-BB-Gun.jpg
Beautiful!
Playing Army!? Yeah, our ‘grenades’ were apples with firecrackers stuck down into drilled out holes in ‘em with just the fuse sticking out. When the time was right, light ‘em up and let ‘em fly at the ‘enemy’! BOOM!! Good times!!
Till I got shot in my face and walked into my kitchen with a BB stuck in my Left Cheek!
My Mom beat me with a wooden spoon and said the classic line
YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYES OUT"
Yes, that statement is real and not from the movie, as this was about 1966!
Lever-action Red Ryder. Circa 1948.
Pretty hard to shoot a kid’s eye out, unless your aim is dead center and right at the pupil itself. Leaves a red welt for a few days if you only hit the cheekbone or ridge of the nose.
Spring-powered, though, so the range was not all that great.
Yep...Really good times!!!! Ahhhh, the fifties!!!!!
OMG! You mean that pretty much ANYONE can buy one of these high-capacity assault BB guns without a background check, fingerprinting, and a 6 month waiting period?
If you were anything like my friends and I back in the 50s, you didn’t want to tell your parents that you were playing war by shooting your BB guns at each other.
Playing war?...OK
Shooting BB guns AT each other?...not so much...whuppin’ with belt or switch, loss of gun, grounding, tons of new chores....
When I think back, it is unbelievable the amount of small injuries we held back - and larger ones we delayed reporting - to our parents. mostly because they happened while engaging in forbidden activities. lol
I only shoot subsonic BB’s in mine. For the suppressor.
Gersh Kuntzman. His name — gersh — is now synonymous with quivering, bed-wetting, sniveling, breakdown-prone, drama queen pussy.
The 50-caliber BB guns can shoot down a helicopter and sink a battleship.
Some of the stupid things we did with Daisy’s as kids. I won’t relate them, but lucky to have survived those days intact.
As kids we were nuts.
Whoa....your 34 - - nice looking.
Good thing he didn’t see the Crossman pellet guns. Probably doesn’t have the upper arm strength to put more than 2 pumps on it.
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