Give Me a Gun or Somethin'! The Monster's At the Door!

[bigbud]

Scatter....do you recall Connor MacLeod, The Highlander. There's the great scene where the lady detective is allowed into his secret collection room filled with wonderful condition antiqueties . She is amazed. Well I'm Bud MacBortner, The Flatlander (Kansas). I've snatched these toys up as I've passed through time....and as food has passed through me.....ha! 

[jimm]

So that's it! Amazing collection Flatlander!!

[bigbud]

Here's something to fend off dragons, Huns, and vikings (I think). This is a Marx Medieval Knights Armour Set from about 1955. I can see a kid putting one of these suits of armour on, but most of the neighborhood friends would have cowboy hats and pistols or rat-a-tat  machine guns. The graphics are great, and the helmet is really cool with a purple feather on top! The sword blade is rather flimsy so as not to seriously hurt little brother. Got breast and shoulder plates, shin protectors, helmet, and sword. The box s made to look like a treasure chest......

[Fester]

The Idiots in the AtF would actually have this classified a firearm, because it fires using a cap.

Not quite. The plastic bullets were fired by a spring inside the cartridge body.
The caps were merely for the sound. 
I had one of the sixguns and a 38 snubnosed detective special that used the same Shootin Shell ammunition. They worked without the stick-em caps.

These guns were sold for many years and were advertised nationally by one of the biggest toy makers in the country.  The BATF is not interested in kids toys.
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[Scatter]

Big Brother is interested in EVERYTHING.

http://www.koinlocal6.com/content/news/topstories/story/ATF-seizes-30-toy-guns-infuriating-local-business/vUVs2QUCAUuZWeRrqgIQaA.cspx

[Hepcat]

Truth!

A local business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma.

Hey, on occasion bureaucrats feel compelled to do something to justify their salaries.

[bigbud]

Wait a minute! 30 toy guys.........worth $12,000 dollars?  That's a hefty price for TOY guns isn't it?

[Scatter]

Wait a minute! 30 toy guys.........worth $12,000 dollars?  That's a hefty price for TOY guns isn't it?

I bet I could spend 30 minutes in your Toy Dungeon compiling 30 toys that would exceed that. 

[bigbud]

You silly! I don't own any toys! Those are all clever images glued to cardboard standups. Pretty good job, huh?

[Fester]

Big Brother is interested in EVERYTHING.

http://www.koinlocal6.com/content/news/topstories/story/ATF-seizes-30-toy-guns-infuriating-local-business/vUVs2QUCAUuZWeRrqgIQaA.cspx

Sounds like one overzealous jerk to me.   My bet is that the Special Agent screwed up and is now in full CYA mode.

But then, there was a case several years back when the Feds banned a bunch of Russian B-B guns because they were made of real AK-47 parts.

And a $400 toy gun?  Some toy!

[bigbud]

This here is the Remco Pom-Pom Gun. This toy was sold from the late 50's through the early 60's. I put my Marx Frankenstein in the pic to show how large this gun is. Pretty big. Several times I have been asked "does it work?" when showing a Battery op toy.....well, this is the collectible that broke me of putting batteries in my old toys. I slapped 4 D cells into this baby and proceeded happily to pull the controls....control light flashing, Pom Pom barrels pumping in and out, entire gun unit swiveling in circles right then left......all of a sudden.....nothing! That was maybe 20 years ago. It hasn't worked since....nor have I tried to make it work. A foolish thing to have done, and an event I seldom even contemplate with my toys anymore........even with cheapo batteries.

[bigbud]

Here's one cool spy toy from 1964...the Mattel Zero M Sonic Blaster! This is a toy gun not easily concealed. When you pull this baby out the neighborhood kids take notice! The wording on the box states, "SAFE, NO CAPS OR BATTERIES NEEDED!"  Well, I guess that was proven wrong, cause Consumer Magazine put out the following review on the Sonic Blaster-

"The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB–above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult. We rate the toy Not Acceptable."

Adults are always messing with a kid's fun! Gotta admit it does boom! And the air it fires is tremendous! The Mattel Sonic Blaster was introduced one year after Wham-o's Air Blaster toy....I figure Mattel  wanted in on Wham-o's success with an air blasting gun....they just maybe took it too far.......
The '64 TV ad for the Sonic Blaster starred Kurt Russell and is entertaining!

[Hepcat]

...all of a sudden.....nothing! That was maybe 20 years ago. It hasn't worked since.

Very sad.

...an event I seldom even contemplate with my toys anymore........even with cheapo batteries.

Wise.

[Hepcat]

...Consumer Magazine put out the following review on the Sonic Blaster.

The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB–above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult. We rate the toy Not Acceptable.

Adults are always messing with a kid's fun!

I agree! They're all such killjoys.

I figure Mattel  wanted in on Wham-o's success with an air blasting gun....they just maybe took it too far.......

I don't think so. Sounds to me as if they got it just right.

[bigbud]

Watch out Hep..... the Sonic Blaster would be quite a shock to a cat!