OMG, I may get censored for sharing this memory. But, we played with toy guns too. In fact, back in my day, we played World War II, with toy machine guns.
And, what will get me censored, is that we divided into teams, and somebody would be the “Japs” or “Jerries” as the bad guys.
We played cowboys and native americans......
We were so adept at playing war around Gramercy Park that by the time we were 12 we could probably have taught a course on urban warfare.
Shocking..... when we played it was the Nips and Krauts.
We all had BB guns.