[Vermonter]

And heaven forbid any child today got a cap gun.

The horror of it. All that dangerous gunpowder in the hands of innocent children.

We used to buy the stuff in huge boxes and probably had enough powder to load shotgun shells

[Proud_texan]

Caps? Of course, we used to whack the whole roll with a hammer to get more of a bang when fireworks (!!) were out of season.

But forget the toys, think about the other stuff. No car seats, heck, no seat belts! No thingies over electrical outlets, open flame heaters (way cool when the cat caught it's tail on fire and went zipping around the house like the Tasmanian devil), no child proof caps, no child proof lighters, no hooks on kitchen doors so you couldn't guzzle down a quart of lye or snort some Comet cleanser.

Actually those weren't a problem, we got near that sort of stuff or acted up in the car we got whacked and learned pretty quick there were some things not to be messed with short of serious repercussions.

Ride a bike with a helmet? Even if they had been invented and I had worn it when I put wings on the bike and rode it off the barn everybody would have called me....a name.

Damn, I had fun.

[FRMAG]

Popping the caps in the guns we had was too tame. We'd take a whole roll at a time and put them on the curb then whop them with dad's hammer. Bigger bang.

[2111USMC]

"We used to buy the stuff in huge boxes and probably had enough powder to load shotgun shells"

Ahh.. brings back memories. Used to take an entire roll of caps and strike them with a hammer on the concrete. Made a pretty impressive noise!