And you won’t even shoot your eye out!
Just the thought of a child playing with a toy gun gives liberals the vapors. I have my daughter shooting an AR-15 (when she was 9, no less) as my background screen at home.
Damn I had one of those. That Thompson was cool.
I wanted one of these so badly that when I (naturally) didn’t get one, I went down to my wood shop (I was about 11 years old) and made two life-sized wooden ones (with the drum, even) so that my younger brother and I could have machine gun fights, a la “The Untouchables”. If I could have only one thing back I had as a kid, it would be these two wooden machine guns I made then.
Of course, now I have two of the real thing (full auto Thompsons, not Tommy Bursts), so that does take a bit of the sting off.
I remember my first toy gun from around 1950. It was made by a neighbor and looked like a Thompson smg with a drum magazine. cut from a board.
My next set were pistols bought in Springer NM. A two gun cap set bought at Macroon’s store! 1951!
Back then no one batted an eye when a kid played with one.
I also had a "Fanner 50"
and a "Johnny Seven OMA".
VTG RARE 1964 MATTEL ZERO M TOMMY BURST CAP GUN WITH RED EYE SCOPE MCMLX
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-RARE-1964-MATTEL-ZERO-M-TOMMY-BURST-CAP-GUN-WITH-RED-EYE-SCOPE-MCMLX-/121844592777?hash=item1c5e80f089
This is the AK-47 toy my kid got from Santa last year.
There was a set of three rifles I remember from the 60s. There was a lever-action western rifle and a hunting rifle with scope and an M-16.
I had the Monkey Patrol set. It even had a “Bouncing Betty” booby trap.
Anyone else remember a bazooka like toy that shot a ball of air?
I had the Secret Sam Attache Case. You could press a button to snap a picture or shoot the gun from a hole in the case.
When my Dad was a little boy, he and all his friends would go to the Saturday morning 'picture show' with their cap guns.
The first time the bad guy would come on the screen, all these kids would jump up and fire their cap pistols......ha
Me and my cousins David and Stevie would make rubber band guns from a piece of wood and a clothes pin. All day gun battles there.
Man, I’m old.
David made a double-barreled rubber band gun by attaching two clothes pins to a piece of wood.
I found out the hard way about weapons escalation. I thought I had him after he shot a rubber band at me and missed. I came charging in to get him and he shot me in the forehead with his second rubber band. I was astonished more than hurt.
Older cousins teach you the hard lessons when you don’t have an older brother.
My neighbor had one of those Tommy guns. It would chew through a roll of caps pretty darned quick and generated a respectable amount of smoke.
Toy guns are not dead. Check out these Max Action toys:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdnd_gtXgYXYEYlONXTGjaw
My boy has kept them in business for years
Did it take a roll of perforated caps?
I had something like that when I was little. I got my finger stuck in the feed mechanism and when my father got home he had to take the thing apart to get my finger out. Don’t know what happened to it after that.