Yeah, here too. Difference was we all had Daisy Red Ryder’s. some of These new BB guns sport 1200 fps muzzle velocity.
Kids today have airsoft guns to play with, lots less dangerous than shooting metal BBs.
Yes that is the difference.
My kids have heard me talk about BB gun fights from when I was a kid.
I showed them recently what a high powered pellet gun can do and there’s no doubt they can be deadly.
This one is 1250-140 feet per second depending on type of pellet.
We never used BB guns like that as a kid.
They were mostly pump up where you could often watch the BB in the air.
I could have easily lost an eye at around age 12/13 in the early 60's when a 22 cal. pellet bounced off of a floating mason jar (at a local flooded stream) and hit me about an inch under my right eye. My last attempt at shooting at floating jars!)
I still have that Benjamin Air rifle and last time I checked it still works well.