We did this on the floor of our dorm in college, but used plastic knives instead of guns. You had to “stab” your target while they weren’t carrying their knife in order to eliminate them. If you were wrong and they did have their knife, then you were out. So basically people carried their knives everywhere, including the showers.
Yup that’s the one… the same aunt who gave me mine for my 8th birthday also gave my cousin the pistol one they made for his birthday that same year…I think it was modeled after the 1911 Navy Pistol. Or it might have been the Beretta. That was the year he turned 5 that .
I vaguely remember those too…
There was some controversy a couple of years back about a gun manufactured to look like it was made out of Lego.
Yeah I remember in the 80s as a kid toy guns that looked liked real guns were definitely a thing. But I figured we all decided at some point in the intervening years (even in countries like the UK where I grew up where real guns, especially handguns, were very rare) that it was a bad idea. I don’t know if actual laws were involved or if it was just a communal “that seems like a bad idea” thing, or a combination of both
Darwin Award time, I hope.
People have been doing variations of that for as long as we’ve had trains. We just have the ability to live-stream it now. (Car surfing too.)
When I was a tween, my brother, who is 3 years younger than me, had a cap gun that he was not allowed to use in the house. As we were about to go out the door for school, I picked it up, pointed it at him, and fired, thinking it was empty.
It wasn’t, and I got a little talking-to right then and there about how people think real guns are empty, too, and they aren’t.
There’s a small museum at Folsom Prison (As I recall the exhibits are about 50% Johnny Cash and 50% actual prison history). One of the items on display is a very convincing fake handgun that an inmate carved out of a bar of soap and dyed with shoe polish, which he used in an escape attempt.
Same here. Even so, I suspect that that game hasn’t aged well.
There was even a movie called Gotcha! which is the story of a college kid playing basically this game and then gets roped into a real spy game by a femme fatale.
It was actually a kinda fun movie. Not great but fun for 1985.
They also made ones that looked like an UZI with folding stock, Bazooka and a M60
that isn’t new and actually was part of a well-known live-action role-playing game known as “killers” except they used dart guns and were having shootouts all over town and in stores it was originally like assassins but there’s some RPG like rules like hit points and such
The last time one of the RPG shops tried it out ended up having a running public battle for weeks …there was a 2500 cash prize for the winning team but the LA County Sheriff dept requested it to end so they just split it up among the remaining players as store credit
As I
Watching the commercial brought back memories of running around the neighborhood with my friends.
Excuse me, it’s in Gurnee? I haven’t heard about really shootings at the Great Wolf Lodge. Why are you trying to equate it to violence in Chicago? It’s closer to Wisconsin than Chicago.
Y’know, I happened to look into this while getting lost on the California Attorney General’s CFARS site. Apparently every city, county, and the state of California itself has laws on the books making it a felony to make a real gun look fake or make a fake gun look real. It’s apparently less about the firearms violation (real or fake) than about the attempt to circumvent the intent of the law – which is apparently a violation greater than just directly breaking the law. I would be very surprised if every other state in the USA didn’t create a similar law after the toy industry started marking their imitation weapons to distinguish them from the real McCoy.
Problem? What Problem?
Yeah, okay: These are the ‘kids’ who grow older and purchase real guns and rifles.
Then they get pissy because they deserve to be able to own and play with a Bushmaster AR-15 that looks just like a real Military M4 or M16 but stupid laws about cosmetic differences prohibit the attachment of particular accessories.
Quite frankly, I think if you’re that obsessed with playing with real military weaponry, you should have stayed in the military. And if you’re out (or never got in) perhaps you should move on with your life. But that’s just my stupid opinion. Another is that there are enough after-market accessories for such rifles to make them look a hell of a lot spiffier than what Uncle Sam issues.
–G!
Oh. There’s a problem. Kids who fake out squirt guns or play ‘ambush our friends’ for shits and giggles obviously have issues controlling their judgement and impulses or no hometraining at all.
Not all, but some will grow up thinking this is the way to be the big shot among their peers.
He/She might develop a mental illness that confuses these thoughts into some sorta revenge my enemies. Go shoot up an elementary school or a Music festival. Or themselves.
These shootings don’t start happening the morning of the shooting. The seeds are planted years ago.
ETA; not ALL kids. I say again not ALL kids. I played war with my brothers. As many have played. We didn’t all go nuts, it seems.
Last night’s episode of what they are calling “The Senior Assassination Game”
Fortunately, this didn’t maim or kill anyone, but today is another day. LOL
Yep, when I was a kid I had a series of cap guns. They were usually short-barrelled Colt revolver style guns- the ‘Police Special’. These weren’t those cap guns that used the lame paper caps-- these were plastic cap rings you’d place in the chamber, and they were loud.
One of my favorite things to do with it was play ‘army’ with the other neighborhood kids. So I was running around the neighborhood holding a very realistic-looking gun, and pointing and shooting it at other kids, making a very loud gunshot sound. And you had to pretend to ‘die’ when you got ‘shot’. Some were little aspiring Pacinos and ‘died’ very dramatically, with groaning and chest-clutching and gradually collapsing to the ground. And it was just good clean 70s childhood fun. Different times.