Whats the most "childish" gun you own?

[tmd16556]

My most childish looking is the Sears Ranger 22 with the cut down stock and the $20 Amazon red dot on it. The original scope was damaged and it was cut down 60 years ago, but it does work. It’s also been a test bed for gunsmithing before working on something more valuable.

Most childish projectile weapon experience would be the Christmas about 10 years ago when my wife’s family bought probably $500 worth of nerf guns and we had about a week of ongoing battles. We would find darts in bizarre places until they moved. I still keep my carbine and a pair of magazines just in case war breaks out again.

 

[CajunBass]

Does it have to be a "firearm?" If so, too bad. I'm going to show it anyway.

It's a Umarax replica of the Thompson Submachine Gun (Kimber Micro 9 for size comparison). Why, I managed to hold the Germans out of our end of Hanover County, Virginia with only a Mattel Tommy gun. With this beauty I could have gone on the offensive.

Firing steel BB's from it's 30 round magazine using two CO2 cartridges for power, the all metal frame/"simulated wood" furniture piece will empty a 30 round magazine of BB's as fast as you can say BBBBBRRRRRTTTTTT... Which of course would have caused a problem with resupply, probably needing to run a Red Ball Express into the neighborhood, just to keep it operating. It weighs about 7-8 pounds, so it's lighter than the real thing, but still has the look and feel.

Reporting for duty Sgt. Saunders.

 

[22250Rem]

Interesting and entertaining thread going here; to include squirt guns, BB guns, nerf guns, rubber band guns, etc. My wife won't touch real guns but has taken to using a little revolver I have that can only fire those 6mm acorn blanks. Primarily for the geese who sometimes come in from the field and make a mess of the back yard. Those blanks are a bit expensive for just a noise maker but it only gets occasional use and we have enough to last for years at this rate. . .

 

[grampster]

By childish, if you mean ill conceived, I've had a couple brain farts. I traded a Ithaca mod 37 12ga pump and a M1 Carbine (that I got from the NRA on a LE deal in the 60s. It came NIB from them for $20.00) for a new Ithaca mod XL900 semi auto 20 ga shotgun with a small game and deer slayer barrels. I should have just bought the XL900 and kept the other two.

As a kid I did have a Daisy pump and a Daisy lever action BB guns. Many newspapers peddled, dumps picked, and cans, bottles, paper and rags collected and traded for the cash to buy those and the BBs. Many a pigeon fell to those. Me and my buddies would build a campfire in the woods and cook 'em

 

[Hookeye]

I gotta get a CZ Scout for my Grandson born a month ago LOL

 

[Dunross]

Staying in the context of real firearms, a Chipmunk 22lr I bought for my daughter.

 

[d2wing]

My Colt replica's. I loved watching Roy Rogers on TV in the 1950's.

 

[Rubone]

This one, anything that is actually a firearm is serious, not childish. I respect what they do far too much to consider them toys...

 

[DeepSouth]

I formerly had a bump stock on an AK, that was fairly childish. Nowadays I’m not really even sure, I have a Rossi 410 that’s a youth. Makes a good snake gun.

 

[tubeshooter]

There were a couple of times where I had some $ burning a hole in my pocket at the fun show and I considered a Savage Rascal or Henry Accu-Bolt.

But the short LOP kept me away. They would have been kind of neat in their own way. I'm not a big guy by any means - but I'm not THAT small.


There are lots of older adult-sized single shot .22 rifles out there to choose from, for around the same money.

 

[ojh]

I don't consider any of my firearms childish, for me they are serious implements for whatever purpose they have been acquired, be it target shooting, hunting or collecting. But other people may have different views.
Where I live, ownership of so called pocket pistols is heavily regulated, in practice only certified gun collectors may possess them. When I got my collector's license, the very first purchase under it was a mint FN Model 1910. Now my dear wife, while fully accepting my passion of guns, has zero interest in them by herself. But this time I was so excited about reaching this new level of the hobby that I showed the shiny little pistol to her. She stared it a few seconds and asked: "Is that real?" She seriously thought it was some kind of a toy. Had to convince her that yes, it is real.

 

[JTHunter]

I saw a "repeater" rubber band gun in ACE Hardware for $6.99 the other day. I almost bought it, but I knew my wife would just take it away from me when I got it home.
Actually, I already have a rubber band gun somewhere in the house. However, my wife took it and hid it years ago. It seems she meant what she said when she told me she didn't like my shooting her with rubber bands.

When we were kids, our parents gave us a pair of red plastic .45s that had a "spoke wheel" in place of the hammer. After hooking the rubber bands on the front, we hooked them on the spokes and rotated them backwards and we could put 4-6 bands on them.
Fond memories although we got yelled at a few times when Mom was trying to do something (like fixing supper).

 

[SC45-70]

These are kind of childish.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Wife and I also collect a few antiques, and I found this at a little antique store in Oklahoma early this spring, while visiting my daughter's family. I didn't buy it at the time but I kept talking about it, so my wife had my daughter go pick it up and gave it to me for my birthday.



I've owned cap guns as a kid, but never seen one like this. It's 14" long, so probably a little longer than my Ruger Old Army. At first I thought it might be a movie prop, but on closer inspection I found "Hubley, made in USA, patent pending". A little searching showed that was made around 1958, and is fairly valuable. I was 9 years old in 1958, but I never saw one of these.

 

[Demi-human]

Okay. Fine. All you rubber band dudes made me do it.
I’ve ordered one of these for my dad.
He’s not really into guns like I am. But everyone can appreciate getting a buddy into trouble!
And, because I’m as socially awkward as a duck at a horse race, my Dad is my best friend. Trouble often finds us together!
So I’m getting the shotty!

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Yup! A laser cut and 1:1 scale, Chicago Typewriter!

Honestly, I’m liking all the puzzles, but they’ve got this, an AK, a M-60 revolver, a giant sized Colt Vest Pocket, and a shotgun. I think they need to have an AR as well, the carry handle could easily hold the escapement wheel.

Often there’s thirty to fourty of us for Christmas, and I have been known to do the Nerf-No-No. (All the tiny ones, so the kids and I can be spy's and get Mams from across the room, covertly.) But many of the new little ones inadvertently destroy the darts.

But, three one pound bags of #4 rubber bands are cheap and durable! My two favorite words!

I’ll show the kids how to do finger pistols and fling them with their pinky, while the Enhanced Sized Children build guns and try to resist the urge to anger the Christmas Cooks!

Why is being naughty on Christmas Day so darn fun?!

 

[caribou]

Mini Mosins for the grand sons.
Though this picture of my Grandy Wade is from last year, thats a Keystone Mosin on his back and his first Ptarmigan with it there.

He trained on one of two Marlin Youth rifles his mom and sisters/bros grew up using untill they fit
This year his dad took him out and when a nice young Bull caribou was walking past, Edward handed Wade his Mini-14 and 2 shots later, made meat. The give away of his first catches is a fun end to each hunt.

Of course I bought and shortened a Mini-14 for his birthday a few days later, and in a few years, a full sized stock will snap on quickly.

 

[rust collector]

If by childish you mean suitable for use by a child with proper supervision, it would be the basic black Crickett rifle I picked up at a pawn shop many years ago. I had great fun sighting it in, and subsequently picked up a Keystone chipmunk pistol in 17 hmr.

If by childish you mean goofy looking but quite useful, I suppose the six-shooter rubber band gun and the bug-assault would qualify.

But if by childish you mean totally lacking in social graces, a Zastava pap92 Kalashnikov pistol has been reported in the vicinity.

 

[hawg]

AR 15

 

[Armored farmer]

I had to read the thread to get the idea of it's theme....
I get it now!
This is one(of many)of my unnecessary purchases:
Hatsun .22 pellet rifle.

I had shoulder surgery, and suffered from shooting withdrawal during a six week (2 week for self employed) recovery period.
This Hatsun was my therapy.

 

[mavracer]

This

 

[hemiram]

I would say it's the gun I'm going to pick up in the morning, mine is all black:

Blade6 - GForce Arms

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I bought a 50 round rotary mag for it, and my other Glock compatible gun. I hope it works ok.

 

[riverats]

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up
~ C.S. Lewis

Being that it bears the moniker, YOUNG AMERICA, I suppose this 32 S&W H&R would qualify as the “most childish” of all.

A constant & redundant companion of Nonno’s while on his late-night walks up & down a dark alley on Chicago’s Near North Side, I do know that it was never fired in anger … I wrote, rendundant because on those walks back when America was much younger, he always had two German Shepherds in tow.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Meh, probably my Sheridan Blue Streak 5mm pellet, which I've had since the 60s. Still a great chippy getter. But then just a few years ago, I bought a DPMS full auto CO2 BB SBR. It has really brought back the kid in me.

 

[Legionnaire]

Don’t think I own anything that qualifies as childish. The Mossberg 500 Bantam I have for use by kids and small statured adults doubles as a fine HD shotgun.

 

[FL-NC]

When I was 14 once my uncle handed me his Ruger standard model 22 pistol and a cookie tin with some ammo in it and told me to go to the trash pit and shoot some cans. I instantly fell in love with that Ruger. Not long after, I was in Montgomery Wards and I saw they had them for $90. It would have been $95 with tax. I saved money from mowing lawns and such until I had $100 (I would need $ for ammo too). Once I hit that $100 goal, I took that pile of cash (mostly 1's and 5's) to dad and briefed him on my intentions. All I would need from him was a ride to Montgomery Wards and for him to fill out some paperwork. The plan was sound, and I had shown firearms competency since I had started hunting at 9 and I already owned 2 shotguns and a 22 rifle. I had also demonstrated maturity in making a plan, sticking to it, and saving the $. The answer was NO, you can't have a pistol. Kind of like the kid that wanted the bb gun but he was going to shoot his eye out, except with a 22 pistol. I was really bummed out (and ended up spending my $100 over time on "wine women and song" - I was 14 in 1981 in Florida). Fast forward to 1990-something. I was in the army, over 21, well trained, and had owned many guns up to that point, including handguns. I went into a small LGS outside of Ft Campbell riding my Harley (something else I wasn't allowed to have when I was 16, even though I had saved the $1600 for that old sportster in auto trader- also got a NO for the Chevelle), and there was a old Ruger standard model from the 70's. Well used but in good condition, with a $140 price tag. I bought it and still have it, even though I rarely shoot it.