I used to have one of those green pineapple type hand grenades when I was a kid, which my uncle gave me. I used to get a kick playing with it.
Also I assembled a large collection of hunting knives. Those were the days of innocence.
My friends and I read gun magazines in school in the late eighties. My best friend wore camo.Nowadays if we were still in school, we might even be booted out or sent to a psych doctor.
My co-worker said he used to carry guns to school in Louisiana in the mid sixties...
I carried a knife to school every day. And once took an M-1 to school when I was in the 1st grade. They were a lot more understanding in those days.
And in deer season, most boys brought their 30-30s for hunting after class.