she it, my friend, mom of two, told me a story about how they would shoot their bebe guns into the nieghbors’ patio cocktail parties when she was a kid. He dad ran the power and light in St. Louis.
My classmates used to come to school talking about their BB gun “wars”. They used to use Daisy airguns to play cowboys and Indians. I do remember at least one, a few years older than I was, who had to have a doctor remove a BB from his eyelid, no actual damage to his eye but he was very lucky. I lived so far back in the sticks I didn’t have any one to fight with except my older brother and we never shot each other with the BB gun, it would have taken away the advantage he had of being three years older. I was as good a shot with a Daisy as he was but younger and smaller.