Obama To Confiscate All Weapons!

[Teatownclown]

The thread was a joke folks....don't get sucked back into a fake issue. Guns are apple pie and the American way....

[heironymouspasparagus]

The thread was a joke folks....don't get sucked back into a fake issue. Guns are apple pie and the American way....

Beautiful flag there.  Missing a couple of stars, but hey...

Cute little kid.  Looks like she needs more ammo...


Perhaps you wish it was a joke, but it really isn't.  Think Illinois - where it can be a felony to carry a gun unloaded and in a remote compartment.  You know where that is...the home state of "guess who".

[Red Arrow]

Beautiful flag there.  Missing a couple of stars, but hey...

Looks like 48 stars, like when you and I and Aqua man were kids.  I didn't have a gun though.  Well, maybe a cap gun or a water pistol.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Looks like 48 stars, like when you and I and Aqua man were kids.  I didn't have a gun though.  Well, maybe a cap gun or a water pistol.

That's the flag I pledged allegiance to for a few years.  Then Alaska and Hawaii came along...

Remember cap guns with the roll caps?  Then the new improved "greenie stick-um caps".  And HiFlyr paper kites!!

[jacobi]

Sorry to interupt the old man memory lane trip but the idea that Obama is anti-gun is a redneck invention.  Sorry. When I hear "Obama is coming for our guns!", what I really hear is "That black bastard thinks he is good enough to be president!" Argue economics instead.

Then again, if you have a gun charge you could always have guido or lionel hutz defend you.

Can this joke thread be over with already?

[Red Arrow]

That's the flag I pledged allegiance to for a few years.  Then Alaska and Hawaii came along...

Don't forget the Lincoln Memorial penny.  One of my class mates' father worked in a bank and everyone in our class got a brand new one when they were first issued.

Remember cap guns with the roll caps?  Then the new improved "greenie stick-um caps".  And HiFlyr paper kites!!

I remember roll caps but "greenie stick-up caps" not so well.  I do recognize the name.  

HiFlyr kites sounds like a familiar brand but I don't distinctly remember the brand.  I do remember having to choose between the regular diamond shaped kite or a box kite.

[Red Arrow]

When I hear "Obama is coming for our guns!", what I really hear is "That black bastard thinks he is good enough to be president!"

I think you need a trip to "Cleartone".

[nathanm]

Remember cap guns with the roll caps? 

I had one of those and I was born in 1980.

[Red Arrow]

I had one of those and I was born in 1980.

Wow! An antique collector at an early age.  Or, could only afford hand-me-down toys.  Actually some hand-me down toys can be cool.  One of my Uncles gave me a toy truck that actually steered and a small person could actually ride on it.  It was a dump truck.  The dump bed was chain operated.  Tonka trucks weren't so fancy.

Either that or they made cap guns a lot longer than I would have expected.  No batteries required.

[nathanm]

Either that or they made cap guns a lot longer than I would have expected.

Yeah, they sold them in the grocery store (die cast; real metal!) until at least 1990. I vaguely remember even seeing a few with the orange barrel inserts, so that would bring them up to at least '92. They also made cap guns with the ring style caps (real revolver action!). By then the battery powered ones that made noises using crappy piezo speakers were taking over, though.

Besides, RC cars were always much cooler than cap guns, even among those of us who shot real guns as kids.

[Hoss]

Yeah, they sold them in the grocery store (die cast; real metal!) until at least 1990. I vaguely remember even seeing a few with the orange barrel inserts, so that would bring them up to at least '92. They also made cap guns with the ring style caps (real revolver action!). By then the battery powered ones that made noises using crappy piezo speakers were taking over, though.

Besides, RC cars were always much cooler than cap guns, even among those of us who shot real guns as kids.

RC planes were even better.

[jacobi]

I remeber the orange rotary things for cap guns, though I never had one.  I remember shooting the cap guns with the long tape of powder like blisters.  You would pull back the trigger and the hammer would slam down on the few grains of powder in the blister then advance.  You could shoot 30-40 rounds with that.

[nathanm]

RC planes were even better.

I didn't have the $150 or whatever ridiculous price they wanted. 

One of these days I am going to build either an FMV plane or hexacopter. Maybe once I get the virtual pinball machine completely finished...

[Hoss]

I didn't have the $150 or whatever ridiculous price they wanted. 

One of these days I am going to build either an FMV plane or hexacopter. Maybe once I get the virtual pinball machine completely finished...

If you built them they weren't that much.  Get one r/c transmitter and a receiver pack and you were set.  My dad got me into the hobby because he was huge into it as I was just coming into middle school.  It's THE thing that got me interested in flying.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Don't forget the Lincoln Memorial penny.  One of my class mates' father worked in a bank and everyone in our class got a brand new one when they were first issued.

I remember roll caps but "greenie stick-up caps" not so well.  I do recognize the name.  

HiFlyr kites sounds like a familiar brand but I don't distinctly remember the brand.  I do remember having to choose between the regular diamond shaped kite or a box kite.

Guess you really aren't old enough.  I still have the Weekly Reader that highlighted the "new" Lincoln Memorial penny.  Just happened to run across that last weekend.  


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