Your favorite toy gun.

[Zach S]

Seemed like they were lever action daisy's, but cant recall for sure.

My uncle and I used to go into the woods behind the house and play GI Joe, cowboy and indian, ect. We shot each other with BB guns so much that I'm amazed we lived long enough to see how stupid it was...

My uncle is only a year and a half older than I am, so we were more like brothers growing up.

 

[mustang_steve]

Oh yes, I had one of those snub nosed cap guns too, a black metal body, grey cylinder, white grips. It was great.

Then I had a "flash cap gun" which was clear plastic, swing-down construction...it had tubes where the spark from the cap firing would shoot out the barrel. Me, being the typical 9 year old snot I was would remove the cylinder and stick a second ring of caps in the opposing end of the cylinder....this casused a massive bang everytime I fired it due to both caps firing off and the increased air compression within the area. It also tended to melt the cylinders in short order.

 

[BaltimoreBoy]

I had two Fanner 50's

Interestingly, they weren't quite the same. The first one fired caps of course, but the interior of the cylinder was not realistic. The "improved" version had replica cartridges in a finished cylinder.

There was another old west style cap pistol of the same vintage. A little bit bigger than the Fanner, but I seem to recall with black (pseudo ebony) grips rather than the fake "horn" grips of the Fanner. Does anyone remember its name? I can't recall it.

On the more realistic front I had another toy that did not replicate any actual gun. It shot orange colored ping pong balls. The way you worked it was that you pumped the barrel and the pressure built up in the rubber collar just behind where the lead ping pong ball was jammed at the mouth. The rubber collar started to expand until the pressure grew high enough to "pop" the ball out of the barrel. Gray barrel shaft about the size of a vacuum cleaner wand, brown plastic handle.

 

[mustang_steve]

Yep, I remember the ball launchers.

I had one similar to this, except mine had a clear blue tube and blaze orange ends.

 

[Joe Demko]

I had a Johnny Seven One Man Army and the Johnny Eagle Levergun/revolver combo. Those were some really cool toy guns. Another favorite was the Star Trek tracer gun that fired the little plastic discs. It didn't look anything like the phaser gun from the TV show, and if not for the picture of Kirk and Spock on the blister card there'd have been no connection at all. What was cool about it was that a little practice allowed one to fire curving shots, kind of like in that recent movie. You can imagine my delight when I found that I could easily resupply myself with ammo for free from my grandmother's bag of bingo chips. They weren't quite as accurate as the tracer discs, but in the heat of close combat with an alien menace they were good enough.

 

[Skillet]

mine was a daisy pop gun based off of the red ryder-kind of.
it basically looked like a mini lever action shotgun with no loading capability on it (no ejection or any reciever of any kind) and a red cap at the end. when it went off it made a sound resembling a high pitched blender that needs to be thrown away, and a screeching cat mixed. it got on my parents nerves quite quickly and easily.

 

[Speedo66]

I had a 6 shooter replica that took 2 piece metal "bullets", with a cap inside. Unfortunately, my quizzical mind was determined to see how loud it would be if I took all the powder from a roll of caps and put it in one of the bullets.

Goodbye gun, blew itself apart, luckily not taking my fingers with it.

My son had a battery operated AK that could fire single or auto bursts, along with the occasional ricochet sound. You could also feel the "recoil". Very cool, and had me wishing I had one when I was a kid, rather than saying "bang".

He also had a set of "lazer tag" guns that would sound off if you hit the sensor the other person was wearing. Answer to the age old "I hit you, no you didn't".

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

"All these toy guns, How politcally incorrect. How did we grow up and not be a bunch of wack jobs? " Speak for yourself! I'm definitely wacked! PS: Mattel Tommy gun, and cast aluminum P-38 (a la Man from U.N.C.L.E., modified it myself to look like the TV gun).

 

[sfc_mark]

All these toy guns, How politcally incorrect. How did we grow up and not be a bunch of wack jobs?

Isn't that what we are - bitter, clinging whack jobs?

 

[zoom6zoom]

If I were a kid today....probably this full auto belt fed Nerf cannon:

 

[middy]

I had a black plastic squirt gun in the shape of a commando Thompson smg with a stick mag... it was scaled perfectly to my size. I loved it so.

 

[NMGonzo]

6 shot revolver carbine

I turned it into a snub nose.