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meles meles wrote:

That's what it is then!

I dug one of these up in the garden years ago, couldn't work out what it was, had quite a large swing out single cylinder. Still got it but it's broken

Put it back, ooman !!! It's part of the secret cache waiting for when they take everything else off us !

My favourite cap gun was a 1911 double action with operating slide. Wonder if its still in Mum's loft?

Sim G wrote:But being in a shop, going about his lawful business harms how? You were in a modelling shop, peraps he was after some Umbro black paint for his fore sight before heading to the range or the field? Didn't want to leave his gun unattended in the car. Craft type shop? Perhaps material with which to fix his tired gunslip?

Can you see where I'm coming from? He was doing nothing wrong. I think you're being a little over sensitive.

This!

I cannot help feeling some shooters; (Perhaps those that have started shooting since the 1997 legislation) have become somewhat institutionalised in the regard to what they perceive the public should expect them to behave like?

Ok, not cap guns, but I got given this at about 6 years old:





Both guns used springs to fire the hard brass coloured plastic bullets. Hard enough to hurt.

Being completely PC, the kit allowed you to offer your 6 year old enemy agent a cigarette, then shoot him in the eye with a choking hazard sized bit of plastic, before cuffing him and then finishing the job with some large plastic grenades. :lol:

I had to do some googling to find it online, but the kit 'evolved' over time as the world changed...

The guns became bright red, losing all their style and no longer fired any projectile.
The grenades went, replaced by a walkie talkie and compass.
You no longer needed a key to unlock the cuffs.
...and the cigarettes became a fake radio.

I guess modern secret agents use diplomacy more than their 'licence to kill'.

This guy collects them, I'm tempted myself now: :lol:
http://codenamespytoy.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... cases.html

Are modern oomanlets still allowed to scalp cowboys or shoot the sheriff of Nottingham with arrows made from garden canes?

meles meles wrote:

I had one of those as a nipper didn't they use the plastic bodied caps rather than the paper rolls ?

Maybe you had the deLuxe Super Magnum version ?

After seeing one of these in the flesh today I just couldn't resist. :roll:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... E3NI8C0HUV
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004 ... N5WU0IJQJQ

Ah! Happy memories of "Lone Star" , cap bombs, spud guns,sekkiden guns, those break barrel pop guns with the cork on a bit of red and yellow yarn, and the Johnny 7 :shakeshout: