Friday, December 28, 2012

Certificate of Surrender

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Coincidentally, I was sent that link by Steve T within moments of retweeting this:
I wish I had the capital to buy the rights for and restart production of this:

Posted by David Codrea at 12/28/2012 11:23:00 AM

4 comments:

Robert Fowler said...

I remember the Johnny Seven. Never did get one. did get a tripod mounted, battery operated Ma 2. It had a red sleeve in the end that when you hit the trigger it moved in and out and made machinegun noises.

It's pretty easy to amuse a 8 year old. ;)

12/28/2012 1:14 PM
Ed said...

I had one of those Johnny Seven O.M.A. guns. Very cool, but really easy to lose the projectiles. Years later, my younger brother rediscovered it in the basement where it was stored with my other outgrown toys. He was indignant that I did not ensure that all the projectiles were with it. He enjoyed playing with it anyways.

Our favorite toy gun for play had a lever action stamped metal receiver and barrel, a pin across the front of the barrel about 1/2 inch from the crown and a Bakelite like plastic stock. Cocking the lever meant that when you squeezed the trigger you felt a slight recoil and there was a mild report. We discovered that when you pushed the muzzle into the dirt while cocking, that the dirt would be expelled for several feet when you squeezed the trigger.

I went looking for one online, and this is similar:
http://www.gunauction.com/buy/11108865/toy-guns/vintage-daisy-660-trail-boss-toy-pop-gun-sound

We did not call it a "pop gun" then, but instead called it an "air rifle". Only later did any of us have lever pumped BB guns or compressed air BB/pellet rifles, which were not treated as toys.

12/28/2012 5:34 PM
GunRights4US said...

Never owed a toy gun. I moved directly from vacuum cleaner sections (that telescoped and I imagined to be a bazooka) to my dad's .22 single shot - somewhere around the age of 7.

12/30/2012 7:04 AM
Toastrider said...

Nerf guns have gotten a lot more interesting over the years. That Nerf Vulcan, for example...

12/30/2012 11:56 PM

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