What was your favorite toy gun?

[SteveSS]

I had a Winchester lever action that worked mostly like the real one. Like they said load on Sunday and shoot the rest of the week. It had plastic bullets with a clip on them and the brass had a spring. The trigger released the spring and the bullet shot out. I had a cowboy pistol with a hammer I could fan. A couple of spy guns from The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

I really wanted a big game safari rifle but never got it.

 

[PROSTOCKTOM]

I liked the little metal Smith & Wesson copy revolvers that you loaded with the red plastic caps. I always modified them by drilling out the barrel and painting the inside flat black.

After modification when you fired it you could get sparks shooting out the barrel. I remember a couple of girls I worked with had me do two guns for them.

Now, this was in the early 80's and they used to drive around pointing them out of their car windows and shooting at people.

Of course this was still in the era that half of the pickup trucks in the high school student parking lot had 2-3 load guns in back window rifle racks.

Sadly, now the World is all screwed up.

Tom

 

[Mopar Hunter]

Toy M-16 that was given to me from my dad that got it as a Christmas present in the 60s from his dad.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

I had real guns as a kid.

 

[AR67GTX]

I had a pair of what I remember to be Mattel western model 73 Colt revolvers that had functional loading gates and small brass cartridges with springs that plastic bullets would seat in and the fire like a regular single action revolver. What I remember is that although they worked well, they were anything but accurate. I would say a 12” pattern at 6 ft might be their best. Plus the half life of the plastic bullets was about 2 days as they were soon scattered everywhere around the house.

This would have been in the 50s.

 

[64BEL]

 

[RR Fan Dan]

 

[Davefinan]

This was some real secret agent **** here.

 

[roadrunnerh]

WASP cap gun, made in Italy

 

[Jim 68cuda]

When I was a kid, my mom bought me a toy gun for my birthday, but never gave it to me. I had heard the story many times. "Bought you a toy gun, but realized you had a one track mind and would never play with anything but cars. So I never gave you the toy gun." After my mom passed away, ten years ago, we found this in the attic. I understand it was a very popular toy in the mid 60's.

 

[Fran Blacker]

This style without the ginger bread.

 

[1967coronet]

Had a trike for a horse and a Roy Rodgers cap gun and holster.

 

[davek]

Best gun ever, Grandson and I would run around the house and shoot each other.

 

[SteveSS]

That Johnny Seven still lives on. It's easy to find the commercial on Youtube. About 25 years ago I got a Nerf bow and arrow at Christmas. The string pulled back but the Nerf arrow mainly was propelled by an air piston connected to the string. We were all over at Mom and Dad's and they had a balcony overlooking the great room. My sister was getting up from a chair in that room when I shot her. It hit her dead center in the chest. It was about a 25' shot. I laughed so hard, she was mad.

 

[junior340]

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[Southbranch]

Everyone in the neighborhood had toy rifle and pistols to play army with. The hardy ones crawled thru swamps to attack from unexpected directions. We were more a gorilla force with a variety of different weapons.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

Had this in the 70’s, you could use pennies instead of the discs for a little more sting.

 

[maxwedgechar]

Mom had no problem with my brother and I having toy guns except at Christmas. Then my Aunt gave my brother and I plastic Thompsons for Christmas! Mom told me later she near had a hemorrhage over it! I had a Western pistol and holster but the only think I remember about it was that the barrel was longer than the normal Mattel so I considered it my Buntline Special!

 

[toolmanmike]

We always played Army in the neighborhood. I had a German Luger and a Kraut helmet. Hey, someone had to be the enemy. LOL

 

[Doorkicker]

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