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

[bigbud]

That's neat Peking! Seems to have been several wood clicker style guns prior to the 50's. Some were home made and some were manufactured....

[bigbud]

I've only got one of those old wooden toy machine guns, but it's pretty cool. This is Krak-A-Jap wooden machine gun. Rotating the machine gun crank produces a very loud firing sound. The handle underneath removes and can be placed further up on the gun to be carried as a tommy gun. The Krak-A-Jap was offered in 1943 and 1944. Two versions were produced...water-cooled and air-cooled....air-cooled has lots of holes drilled in the thick cardboard barrel...only difference.

[Hepcat]

Awesome to have a toy from he forties in that type of condition!



And they just don't make toys with names that cool anymore. In fact they haven't for more than fifty years.

[Peking Homunculus]

That's a pristine example. How did you ever find one in such fantastic condition for its age?

[Scatter]

Wow!! Sweet gun, and a most wonderfully non-PC name!!

[jimm]

Not too far removed from Pearl Harbor for most at that time!

[bigbud]

That's a pristine example. How did you ever find one in such fantastic condition for its age?

Kansas is pristine pickin's territory! Plus the time-machine I use....occasionally.....Ha!

[bigbud]

This be the Remco Screaming Mee Mee-E Rifle. I think it was Remco's answer to the Johnny 7 OMA. Really a beautiful toy gun. Shoots bullets out of the top and of course the Screaming Mee Mee-E red bomb!
  I have a very clear childhood memory of this gun. The entire neighborhood of backyard soldiers assembled around me to get a peek at the Screaming Mee Mee-E rifle....I was the first on the block to get one (and the only). I loaded the big red Mee Mee bomb into the front barrel, pointed the rifle at an angle and fired.....the darn bomb went only about 5 feet and made the exact sound of a rubber squeaky dog or baby toy! The neighborhood kids lost interest instantly. I was very disappointed. Still...it's a cool gun to look at...ha!

[Hepcat]

Wow! I'd completely forgotten about the Screaming Mee Mee-E Rifle and here you have one in fabulous condition!

[bigbud]

I just love the box art on this toy gun!

[Hepcat]

Two questions:

1. How far did this Remco Rifle fire the five bullets advertised on the box? More than five feet I hope.

2. What were the loudest baby boomer toy guns not utilizing caps? The Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster and the Mattel M-16 Marauder?

[bigbud]

Yep on 1...more than 5 feet.  And yep on 2....Sonic Blaster is the king of loud followed by the Ideal M-16 and the Wham-o Air Blaster. I got to pull back the bolt on the M-16 and hit the trigger on only one occasion. After that...it was banished to the basement....

I guess the battery op Marx machine guns were pretty loud too......M-14....B A R and tri-pod machine gun.

[Hepcat]

...followed by the Ideal M-16.... I got to pull back the bolt on the M-16 and hit the trigger on only one occasion. After that...it was banished to the basement....

Ideal M-16? Do you mean the Mattel M-16 Marauder or was this a different gun?

[bigbud]

Yea...you're right Hep....Mattel.

[Leeman13]

I just looked through 35 pages here and wasn't bored for a second.  Very cool thread here guys!

My dad was a multi-decorated WWII Army veteran, so he had no problem letting me play with any toy (or sometimes real) gun.  So growing up in the early 70's, yeah, I actually had a good handful of the goodies shown here.  I will try to go through and list them all later, but for now I thought I would share my oldest gun toy.

This is my father's childhood cap gun (he was born in 1913, so I would put this as being from the late teens or early 20s.  Cast iron and made by National.  The only markings I can find are a "Made In U.S.A." and a "35" inside.  The stampings seem to be individual letter strikings.  I played with this as a child, and blasted off many old red rolls of caps in this.  And to this day, it still fires perfectly.  I may do a little Youtube video showing it working, if I can find an old roll of caps.