RE: Your post of Little Joe
When I was in 1st grade Loren Greene (LG) came into our classroom to discuss Bonanza and the like...
Of course the discussion was incomplete without mentioning the ‘blanks’ that they shot with on set.
LG warned us all that blanks were VERY dangerous, then he held up a phone book pulled out his ‘six shooter’ and blew that phone book into bits of confetti with just a blank cartridge.
I remember the demonstration very well!
I imagine bring a pistol to a classroom today...
And on Little House on the Prairie? Same!