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To: Pan_Yan
Mattel Tommy Burst Machine Gun

My favorite uncle - who was in the Army Reserve - bought me the Dick Tracy version of this cap gun, and I quickly "de-Dicked"* it so it would look more like a military Thompson. It turned out to be a roll-cap hog and was not particularly rugged, but it was about as state-of-the-art as any cap gun in town while it lasted... one of my most remembered childhood toys.

Mr. niteowl77

*This sounds much worse than the actual procedure, which was simply label removal.

19 posted on 07/24/2011 5:38:25 PM PDT by niteowl77 ("Born in a well? Let me see that birth certificate again!")
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To: niteowl77

My favorite Mattel toy gun (never got to own one, just saw it on TV) was the “MMP” which I guess meant Mauser machine pistol. It was a Broomhandle Mauser looking thing with a windup machine gun sound.


22 posted on 07/24/2011 6:16:53 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
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