I’m in my 40s and used to go to school with my shotgun in the truck. Hunting hours were only for a few hours after school so you were better off carrying your shotgun instead of going home for it.
Everything changed with guns in the late 90s/early 2000s. Before then as long as you weren’t a delinquent no one really cared if a kid had a gun. At least not where i grew up.
I've heard by way of anecdote some of the connotation was strengthened by the Mattel toy guns being bought and used as training aids by individual units in stateside training. That could strengthen a baseless, but not absurd, rumor that Mattel had anything to do with the polymer on M16s.
Anyways in the movie 'The Green Berets' (1968) John Wayne smashes a Mattel gun on a tree. It isn't a good movie, but it has weirdly memorable scenes.
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 179d
I guess there was a time when children could walk around in the US carrying one of these without getting shot.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 179d
They still do. Heard of Uvalde? Just strolling the school.
teft@piefed.social · 7 pts · 179d
I’m in my 40s and used to go to school with my shotgun in the truck. Hunting hours were only for a few hours after school so you were better off carrying your shotgun instead of going home for it.
Everything changed with guns in the late 90s/early 2000s. Before then as long as you weren’t a delinquent no one really cared if a kid had a gun. At least not where i grew up.
brap@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 179d
Now that’s a sound I can get behind.
Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 179d
No silly, it's a sound that comes from behind.
brap@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 179d
Depends who’s got the brap-o-matic I guess.
Merva@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 179d
Quick maffs.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 179d
Gnome saiyan?
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 179d
is that a pepsi logo on the stock?
bonenode@piefed.social · 6 pts · 179d
PugJesus@piefed.social · 6 pts · 179d
My grandfather who served in Vietnam always called his M16 a "Mattel Gun". I see why now. XD
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 179d
I've heard by way of anecdote some of the connotation was strengthened by the Mattel toy guns being bought and used as training aids by individual units in stateside training. That could strengthen a baseless, but not absurd, rumor that Mattel had anything to do with the polymer on M16s.
Anyways in the movie 'The Green Berets' (1968) John Wayne smashes a Mattel gun on a tree. It isn't a good movie, but it has weirdly memorable scenes.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 179d
Here's a video for anyone curious.
snooggums@piefed.world · 3 pts · 179d
That is fucking awesome!
egrets@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 179d
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 179d
Anyone remember Entertech water guns before the color changes?