I had that M-16!!!
Uh, not much in the way of support or citation for who, what, where, and when this supposed “ban “ is supposed to take place.
Looks like a phony article here.
“Christmas lasts a lifetime.” Great slogan. I still have my first .22, half a century later. It’s a Mossberg, not a Remington. All that shooting over all those years and it’s barely broken in.
The cutest little evil overlord ever: http://www.lilformers.com/blog/2006/11/20/11202006/
I’m so glad I got to HAVE a Childhood and that I could provide one for my boys, as well.
Except, maybe, for the random outbuilding or barn window, ‘accidentally’ shot with their BB Guns...
*SMIRK*
Hell , in the 80s in Wyo they had a shooting range IN the HS school basement!!! loved my time there...
All that changed on June 5, 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered.
The news media and politicians led a massive anti-gun, anti-hunting campaign in which it was decided that anything manly like shooting was BAD, BAD, bad.
The feminization of the American Male began that year, and has never let up.
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”
I did get a .22LR for Christmas when I was about 12 or 13. It was a Winchester bolt action. I took it to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays for Firearms Safety class on Tuesdays and for Marksmanship class on Thursdays. That was in Hampton Virginia. I’m pretty sure that same high school would suspend a student for having a photograph of a rifle today.
Bought a Marlin bolt-action single-shot .22 in 1965 at the local Sears and carried it home on the city bus. This was in Southern California believe it or not.
That add for the hammerless Iver Johnson is correct. It had a hammer spring that could have been used for a truck suspension. Accidental discharge was impossible. Intended discharge was only slightly easier.
I remember many years ago there was a Master Lock commercial where they shot the lock with a 30-06 to show how tough it was, it took the hit and still functioned. Weatherby came out with and ad at a latter date date showing the same set up with a Master Lock but this time they shot it with a 300 Weatherby completely destroying the lock. Can’t remember what they said later but it was pretty funny at the time.
Got a Remington “Targetmaster” 510 single shot when I was 7 years old, I’ll be 80 in two months and the rifle, in excellent shape, still shoots as well today as it did way back then. Looks like the lower right rifle in the Remington photo.
I remember Christmas morning when both my brother and I got those rifles. Dad took us out in the snow after lunch so we could shoot our new rifles. I’ll never forget that day, EVER!
Banned! Funniest Ever! Incredible! Unbelievable!
Internet Hype. C***suckers will say anything to get you to click on their stupid sites.
I own (or have owned) six of the items on that list. Guess I’m just a sucker for good advertising.
OT but one of the advertisements on that list is for the Remington 514 bolt-action .22LR, which was Gary Marbut’s inspiration for the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. Marbut wanted to manufacture a youth rifle exclusively for sale to and use by other Montanans, without federal interference or oversight. So he wrote and introduced a bill to the Montana legislature that cited the 2nd, 9th and 10th Amendments to the US Constitution codifying that state’s exemption from BATF regulations regarding the manufacture of firearms within that never meant to leave the state.
The Montana law inspired seven other states to pass and enact their own versions of the Firearms Freedom Act, the long term goal of which is to push back against the overreach of federal firearms legislation and over-broad application of the Constitution’s commerce clause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Firearms_Freedom_Act
http://firearmsfreedomact.com/
I remember going to Sears when I was a young kid (it would have probably been in the mid-1950’s). They were having a shooting demonstration by someone (I don’t remember who).
He had a Sears .22 and was shooting .22 Shorts (he made a point of saying that several times) INDOORS. He shot balloon backwards through a mirror and aspirins straight on, all while talking about the great guns Sears sold in the department directly behind him.
That last kid looks a bit like Jonny Quest.