TOYS...PHTT...I got to play w/ the REAL thing(my dad’s .22) and my dad brought home 3 Jap swords from WW II AND a Jap Rifle and bayonet too. TOYS...PHTT!
HOWEVER when I shot the Picture Tube out of the Family’s TV(19 Inch B & W) with my BB Gun ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE! My sister(3 older) WERE PISSED! My dad was SO mad that he just walked away(he was a REAL LIVE WW II Combat Vet). Took 2 month before we go it fixed. Memories!
>and my dad brought home 3 Jap swords from WW II AND a Jap Rifle and bayonet too. TOYS...PHTT!
Nice! Do you still have them? They’re likely worth a lot, the sword especially, as I seem to recall swords [and guns] were outlawed after WWII.
Heh, I had a ".22" from age 7 (an old Flobert parlor rifle I found rusting under my grandparents' house), and there was no shortage of either Mauser or Arisaka bayonets in the family homes. None were particularly sharp, so my mother never worried much about them.
I remember Dad going a bit pale when, years later, he saw me actually shooting the Flobert. My uncle (a man more knowledgeable in oddball foreign firearms than my father) had secured a quantity of 8mm Flobert CB caps and had checked the rifle for safe function. Dad had believed it to be safely inert and useless as anything but a "toy".