[Sender]

Those deadly, incorrect toys...I remember one of my favorites was a Man from Uncle transistor radio, at least it looked like one, which popped out a barrel, stock and grip when you pressed a button. Too cool!

Of course then a boy could be seen out with a BB gun in the yard and no one called the police either. And it was de rigeur for every boy to have a pocket knife.

[Dr Snide]

and that wasn't that long ago (20 year or so) in which kids could still be kids. To be more accurate, boys could be boys. Remember those starter BB guns that would shoot out the yellow rubber BBs, trying finding one of those now. You can't even find a cap gun, I looked for one the other day for my boys. Its insane.

[Sacajaweau]

Us girls carried those knives, too, along with our bag of marbles. The knife game was mummily-peg (sp)...a skill of knife flips. Big sin of the age...stepping on the lawn next door as the old lady guarded it with her broom.

[TruBluKentuckian]

"I remember one of my favorites was a Man from Uncle transistor radio, at least it looked like one, which popped out a barrel, stock and grip when you pressed a button. Too cool!"

Wow... such memories. I had one of those and it was my favorite toy ever. The handle of the "radio" became a scope. I played with it forever.

I also had a briefcase thingie that had a gun inside. If I remember right it also had a camera (it may have even worked with the right film). When closed you could push one button and take a picture or push another and it would shoot actual plastic bullets. I shot it once in the house and for a long time we couldn't find the bullet. One day we found it... imbedded in the wall. It actually shot that hard.

Memories... sigh.