I had that .50, HS. This was about 15 years later, tho'.
Loads and loads of cap guns. Funny thing, there were pre and post-ban cap guns, if you will. They used to be correctly black. Then came the little orange "this is not a gun" muzzle covers. Well, those came off easily
but then they started making the whole things out of red plastic! I was angry, but I kept buying them with my allowance (hmm, this all seems to relate to something going on right now, but I can't think what...)
However, on one occasion I discovered that if you took the black cylinder from a new red snubnose cap gun and used it the place of the silver cylinder on an old black snubnose cap gun, you now had an
absolutely realistic .38.
Funny, it never occurred to me that I could go do evil with it.
I also had a garage sale find; a toy lever-action rifle with a little light beneath the barrel that flashed when you pulled the trigger. You pointed it at this cheesy plastic fence-type deal and aimed at cans on top of the fence. A sensor in the fence would receive the light and activate a little lever which, in turn, knocked the can in the air.
And let us not forget squirt guns. Once I filled my Super Soaker 200 with Big Red soda pop. I tell you, THAT was a great day.
See what happens when you deprive your kids of the real thing?