watch it: 1960s commercial for Mattel’s toy tommy gun
Like cigarettes, guns used to be good for you:
Seven dollars! That woulda been a lot of newspaper-deliverin’ money...
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comments
posted by C. David Dent (Thu Aug 27 09, 2:38PM)
I used to have a similar toy as kid. It didn't use actual caps, but it did have that nifty bolt-action. When you pulled the trigger, it would jerk like recoil in your grip.
I also remember having both silver and black cap guns that were alarmingly real looking (albeit smaller scale than actual guns).
posted by Left_Wing_Fox (Thu Aug 27 09, 7:19PM)
Personally, I'm far more enamored with clever toy guns than real ones. The animation company I used to work at suffered a spate of Nerf-related violence a few years back when wediscovered a line of toy guns which fired suction-cup-tipped foam darts from plastic "shells", which could be ejected. The double-barreled shotgun would fire two shits, then eject the plastic shells when you popped it open. After that came the big plastic M1a Springfield types, which fit 6 shots into a clip, and ejected spent shells out the side. Remarkably accurate too, and made for an awful lot of work-preventing fun. :)
Had quite the arsenal by my desk by the end.