Remember Toy Guns?

I feel like such a wuss; My favorite toy gun as a kid was this ray-gun thing with a file wheel and flints; It shot out sparks, and in a pinch you could start fires with it.

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Sic semper tyranus!
 
My best friend and I had SS Ammo guns, the kind with the little yellow balls. Pistols and rifles. The balls ended up all over the place! We also had Star Trek disc shooters.
I remember when I was about 4 or 5 I had a real cool Army set with a .45, a helmet, a bayonet, and a plastic service belt with holster. I remember wearing this rig and hiding, and my late sister found me. I gave her a kick right in the gut not knowing about appendix surgery and the pain associated with it's recovery! This was 1964 or'65. I still feel bad about that!

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Just killin' time, but it's killin' you too.
Foghat
 
loknload, the only toy gun I remember having was the Paladin set. came with a black hat, holster rig, and those business cards with the chesspiece and "have gun- will travel"
don't know about you, but I wish I still had mine.
 
Early 1960's had a Dick Tracy snubby with shoulder holster. Made by Mattel, maybe?

Wore it concealed to school (3rd grade?) for show & tell about watchagotfer Christmas.

No one ever raised an eyebrow. No big deal. Cops n' robbers, ya know. And this was a parochial elementary school.

Something like that happening today would probably rate a SWAT team and exposure on the evening TV news.

Sad times we live in.

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Just one of the Good Guys
 
Lets see...
My Boys got Real South African Army packs, toy helmets, Green Plastic 1911s, Daisy Lever pop guns... Of course I got "Pig Eye" from the Mom Next Door. And of Course I just smiled and ho ho ho'ed her and told her to be Merry.

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"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." - Sigmund Freud
 
Yes Kingcreek I remember, I remember that when I saw it in the store I had to have it, Sort of like now when I'm in the gun shop.
I remember we had a kid on the block whose parents bought him any toy gun and army related toy on the market at the time. I guess he sort of became the Q of the neighborhood. He had it all. We had a lot of fun back then.

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Help Stamp Out Gun Ignorance.



[This message has been edited by loknload (edited December 27, 1999).]
 
The COOLEST toy gun I ever had was a full-size replica of a M-16. Well, I don't know if replica would be the right term, since you couldn't take out the magazine, work the action, etc. But you could pull back a lever on the side, and it would give out a series of pretty loud mechanically-recorded "bangs" for as long as you held down the trigger.



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"And a Cartridge in a Bare Tree..."
 
Well, I'm a youngin, so the only toys I remember were of the plastic and orange cap variety. Lately though, I've been getting into airsoft. They're exact 1:1 replicas of real firearms, which makes them really cool. IMO, they are the perfect alternative to live-fire training or MILES gear. Here's a look at what I've been playing with:

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I grew up in a small college town in the late 60s and every kid in three blocks had the Mattel M-16 that was so close to the real thing that the first time we had a fire fight in the yard of the local frat house we had 3 or 4 Vietnam vets come out to "check out" our weaponary. After that we always had a few you would come out and teach us how to fire and manouver low crawl and other things. I think they just wanted to play too but didn't want their socialist friends to know. After that they tolerated us more :) we played basketball, football and softball with them and if your parents called you, they would yell back "he's or she's comming" then make sure we knew to get home. After that first incident every kid in the neighborhood had 30 college students who watched out for us, it was like having a house full of big brothers just aroud the corner.

Because of these guys we had the best fire team in town and we also knew to leave our fathers guns at home, non of us ever took a gun to school or to my knowlege has gone to jail to this day.

All because of a plastic M-16 clone, I would like the pc anti gunners to digest that.


[This message has been edited by Alan B (edited December 27, 1999).]
 
Jimv.... hey if you have ANY of the old Nichols toys.. be aware that the big .45's are worth about $500.00 now.... no telling what the derringer is worth.....
 
Before Mattel and even maybe before Nichols, the Hubley company made some wonderful and realistic, heavy cast iron cap pistols. I had a replica of Gene Autry's own sixgun, nickeled and ivory, with the cattle brand 'engraving'; another that was black and pearl, and a perfect replica of a Colt pocket .32 (1903 Model N.) These all took the red roll caps and were double action. There were two sorts of caps: One kind was perforated between charges so that guns with an internal 'hand' mechanism could advance them more readily. My all-time favorite toy gun was something from Wards, bought around 1943: Using all wood parts and actual reject walnut stocks, these were excellent replicas of the M-1 Rifle and carbine, and the Springfield. My carbine model was real-looking enough to attract a couple of Marines from across a busy railway station concourse, who advised my Mom that '...the kid shouldn't have a real gun.' I was delighted that I had fooled them. That M-1 killed thousands of fantasy Nazis for the rest of the war... slabsides
 
Slabsides.....HUBLEY!!!! I hadn't thought of that one.... got it for my son abount 78'... it was a .357 S&W metal one with a flip out cylinder (ring caps I think) ... I think my son still has that one.... I guess that most of us where armed even when we were young(er) huh??
 
Do any of you remember the Riflemans "Lucas McCains" Ring rifle?. I believe that was made by Hubley. I had one! Also who made the belt buckle with the swing out firing derringer? Was that Mattel? Had one of those to. It was good to be a kid back then No worries just plain fun.

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hmmmmm

My faves were:

a bren gun (that was REALLY BIG) that had a front grip that pulled out as a handgun...
fired caps AND fired a grenade... (i was really little when I got that)

a cool black plastic m-1 carbine that i carried in a toughskin "scabbard" on my bike to play rat patrol..


a tommy gun that looked like a ppsh41 (no front grip) that cocked on the left side
a planet of the apes tommy gun that looked all rusted..

a black plastic m-16 (from SWAT the series)

a shiny full sized cap derringer to play wild wild west (plus a rubber throwing knife)..

a SWEET clip fed strip cap firing beretta brigadier

a plastic (cheap) dart gun 1:1 scale VP70Z (still have it)


Oh and my brother had a 1/2 scale M1 D sniper rifle witha "working" scope that was WAY cool.

a scale model 44 automag (thatwas a REALLY Expensive japanese kit), had another plastic 1911 model as well...

various super soakers in college....

damn I'd love to own a "new service" cap gun

Dr.Rob
 
Mort, I had one of those lever guns with the lights like you found at the grarage sale. It was fun as all get out when your 5 years old !.
Anyone ever notice that you cant find any dart guns like you could 10 years ago? I mean the hard plastic darts with suction cups that were all red.

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Man! I'd totally forgotten about those squeezy-sparky clear plastic guns! Those were cool!
Of course, I had a plastic M-16 too, it was OD green. No levers, but when you pulled the white plastic trigger there was a rattling-shooting sound that lasted a few seconds. Then you pulled it again.
Also had a "chrome" plastic Cobra II ring 6-shot cap gun.
Also used to make my own toy guns out of dowels, pipe, wood, that strap-steel stuff with the holes in it, screws, tape....
Now that I look back on them (they're out in the garage in a box) they look pretty crappy, but I tell you what, when I was twelve they looked exactly like a belted M60 or a Tommy Gun. (Even made belt ammo out of tinker-toys and 2" masking tape.)
Ahhh, those were the days..... -Kframe
 
Mort and Cuz, I also had one of those sets. It was a lever action rifle that shot a beam of light at a sensor on the fence that knocked the cans down. It was called "Tin Can Alley" and I believe the commercial for it featured Chuck Conners.

I also had a couple plastic M-16's with a brown stock and handguard to simulate wood. They actually looked pretty cool. My favorite was a blue and silver Thompson SMG with a straight clip instead of the drum. And of course a bunch of different cap pistols and revolvers.

When we didn't have our "guns" we would find sticks and use those. You really had something if you could find a straight one with a "Y" near one end to form a pistol grip and another near the "muzzle" to form a fore end grip!

Kind of on the same subject, did anyone have any toys made by and English company called "Dinky"? They had great looking quality made military replicas (tanks, rocket launchers, etc.) that fired plastic projectiles. They also made cars, planes, fire engines, as well as sci-fi stuff, i.e. the "Star Trek" Enterprise ship, the "Space 1999" (anyone remember that show?) ship.

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I Love My Country, But I Fear My Government!


[This message has been edited by 2tapcm (edited December 28, 1999).]
 
Wow! Unlocked a few memories from the Alzheimer's here!!

Mum and Dad bought me a magnificent Winchester lever gun "replica" when I was a kid. It had separate rounds that loaded through the side port and ejected through the top, like the "real thing". You could also load roll caps into the back of it, fired by the exposed hammer. This was about 1960. Cost 'em and absolute fortune I know.

I also had one of those "shooting range" thingies, using a very primitive (now!!) light beam which "kicked" cans sky-high. I remember they were mainly Pepsi (before it even took off here) and "root" beer (which name caused a lot of humour among very adolescent, pubescent young boys!!).

Also had a magnificent six-shooter. Full size, die-cast and very heavy. Nickel-plated, it fired "caps" that you put in the hollow point of the bullet. The hammer pushed each round forward against a "firing pin".

I really cannot believe how innocent we were in those days!!!!!! And no-one got hurt!!!!

B
 
Jeez, you guys are old! Reading the posts brings back a lot of memories. When I was about 6 I had my tonsils out and I remember my father bringing me the Hopalong Cassidy two gun set. Ah, my hero! I had just about every one of those old toy guns mentioned. The cops never gave us a second look.
Fast forwarding about 35 years I used to drive this young Sgt. Twice he almost shot kids who had toy guns. I knew the guns were toys but he didn`t. We`re talking 8 or 9 year olds who were just playing. I saw my career swirling down the toilet with this guy!
 
ooooohhh boy the guns we used to break...

We even had to resort to using the round flashing from the star trek model kits to constantly replace the front "stinger" of our star trek phasers. Eventually we ran out of round stock.

I remember playing with friends and all we would do was play army in the woods, cowpies were mines. Our friends dad even built a "canon" on an wooden wheeled axle for us to play with....

I do remember a blue Thompson SMG, and a few M-16's that made noise when you pulled the trigger, for a day or so. (did I mention my little brother broke everything I had???) I even think there may have been a plastic M-1 Garand, but I don't remember it having any moving parts. (it may not have been mine) I do remember having a few cap guns, and as I recall the reciprocating red plastic "flashes" from the barrel were underwhelming when they first came out. I know we had squirt guns, but none come to mind. (and I know we predated super soakers)

Our friends had a 1911 that felt like the real thing. Once we were going on vacation and it accidentally got caught in the edge of the VW hood, the gun squished in the grip area a little, but the thing stood straight up like it was on a mount on the hood. If it hadn't been pointing at the driver maybe mom would have left it there for a drive...

I also remember the pump shotgun that shot little plastic BB's, I remember covering the living room floor with bb's... Hmm why didn't mom let dad buy any more BB's for us???


in college I wound up with a revolver that shot a plastic bb from a "bullet", I saw the revolver in my boxes recently, but I don't think I have any bullets or bb's left.

Mom may not have approved of guns, (ask me sometime about her racoon hunt) but today I hunt with my father and father in law, so some good came of it. I knew better than to take a gun to school. But I did have a pocket knife whenever I had one.

Ahhhh, Thanks chadintex, for two things,

bringing back those childhood memories,

and

making me aware of what I need to provide to my child(ren) for their memories to start.

Gfrey
 
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