Posted on 12/23/2014 6:11:20 AM PST by rellimpank
Two cops rush to the scene. “This sounds like a gun battle — over there!” one calls to his partner.
They see the suspects: two little boys, wielding rifles.
The police officers do not shoot.
Rather, they examine the boys’ weapons and break into big smiles: “Hey, is it real?” one officer asks.
“Looks like real,” his partner marvels.
“And it sounds like real,” the first officer confirms.
“Right — every shot!” says the announcer, because this is on television.
It’s an ad, from 1967, for the Sound-O-Power M-16 military rifle, a big hit for Marx Toys at Christmas that year, $5.99, batteries not included.
A Marx Sound-O-Power will run you about $225 now, if you can find one on the collectors’ market. Marx, once a titan of the American toy industry, is long dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”
I am quite surprised, considering today’s PC world......................
—maybe those are where Hollywood got the idea of the Colt SAA that could be fired twenty or so times without reloading—
The problem isn’t toy guns — it’s fatherless kids running wild.
The problem isn’t toy guns — it’s fatherless kids running wild.
True haven’t seem any in fifteen years PC took over you can’t even find any old WB cartoons because they say it’s to violent.
They don’t hardly even show the Three Stooges shorts anymore like they used to. Too violent. Even the Classic movie channels only put on the mild ones and then only as late night time slot fillers between movies.................
Time to bank up on CD’s.
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