Is it wrong.......

[JHC]

We had capguns from toysrus and homemade rubberband guns cut from plywood when I was a kid. My sons have a pair of cheapo airsoft MP5s, a Taurus 9mm, and a DE to target practice with, they also have a couple of flea market AKs and M16s to play war.

My wife used to be against my kids having toy guns but since they have shown alot of responsibility with their toys as well as when we are out plinking with real guns it's not an issue anymore. I got my sister-in-law a bit mad when I got my nephew an airsoft pistol for xmas to plink with his dad but now her husband is thinking about getting a real one, so I guess playing with toy guns does lead to owning real guns.

[Richard]

You mean the Cow Palace gun show?

No ,actually it's down here in SoCal.....San Gabriel Valley,East of L.A.. and in the Asian Vendor stores.

[bonjing]

I remember the snap guns with the red paper of caps. I also recall the ones that had plastic strips. also you cant forget the cool/real looking water guns, oh and when "gotcha paintball" guns came out. the gotcha kinda scared me, when i first got it I shot it at our wood fence and there was a plastic "wad" that embedded into the fence. (still thought it would be cool to shoot my cousine with it) he he

also it's nice to hear that your kids are out playing in the neighbor hood. i see kids in my neighbor hood but i haven't seen kids play in the streets since i was a kid

[50 Freak]

I remember when I was young, my dad didn't buy me any toy guns.

Ended up making an actual firing "gun". Took a small pipe, drilled a hole, used a lead projectile that fit perfectly and a fire cracker as propellent. Not bad for a 3rd grader.

John Browning would have been proud of me.

[bu-bye]

My parents did not let me have guns until I was about 6-7. For years I would get toy guns from family members and friends for birthdays and Christmas but my parents would take them and hide them without telling me. Then one day when I was 6 or 7 I was looking in the closet and saw the big trash bag that I had always seen for years but never knew what it was. I ripped open the bag and found about 20-30 toy guns and other toy weapons unopened. I almost had a heart attack I was so excited. From that day on my parents let me keep toy guns that I got as gifts. No more guns made from sticks fallen from trees or legos

[grammaton76]

I got my sister-in-law a bit mad when I got my nephew an airsoft pistol for xmas to plink with his dad but now her husband is thinking about getting a real one, so I guess playing with toy guns does lead to owning real guns.

The liberals have known this for quite a while. Why else do you think they've created the meme that "children should never play with toy guns"? They're just trying to make sure the next generation grows up anti.

[taloft]

I to did the trench warfare thing at a construction site near by my house. Dirt clods make excellent grenades until you get hit in the eye with one that has a rock in the middle of it! We had to stop when the surveyors flipped out from us pulling up the marking stakes, they made great swords.

I've pulled numerous B.B.'s out of my skin. I've always been exposed to firearms at some level. My father had replica grenades/mortars from his time in the Marines that I loved to play with.

Of course, all of this was back when playing wasn't scheduled down to the minute. It was pretty much go outside and play, be home by dark kinda neighborhood.

[Satex]

It's just like Alcohol in the US. It is demonized to an extent the youth draw to the magic of it and when they can finally legally posses it - they lose control. Go to Europe and you will see parents sitting with their young kids at beer gardens drinking beer. No one makes a fuss and when they turn 21 they kids don't get hammered and kill themselves on the road.
Same thing with guns. My kids will be able to play with toy guns, and when they are old enough, they will learn how to behave around a gun. A few weeks ago I saw a marine and his 8yo (estimate) kid at the range. The kid behaved perfectly. He did nothing stupid and I felt 100% safe seeing him shoot. That's the way to educate a young person, not deprival, but education!

.....Not one of the other kids has a toy gun of their own because thier parents won't buy them