Johnny 7 One Man Army Gun (c) 1964 [Archive]

sr71blackbird

01-10-2009, 04:09 AM

joethebartender

01-10-2009, 04:16 AM

Cool toy. Looks like it was made with more plastic than it takes to make an "above ground" pool.

Also if that was an ad from 1964; how many johnny 7 owners were carying M16s through asian jungles 10 years later?:down:

sr71blackbird

01-10-2009, 04:17 AM

Unrelated, but this is a young Kurt Russell on this toy gun commercial!

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Farmer Dave

01-10-2009, 04:59 AM

Can you imagine the fits people would through if someone dared to sell those to kids now. God forbid they go out and play with other kids that way.

led37zep

01-10-2009, 07:32 AM

My parents never let me have anything resembling a gun growing up...I guess they thought it would lead to violence or some shit.

However...I would have shot them for this gun when I was a kid.

GregoryJoseph

01-10-2009, 08:00 AM

My parents never let me have anything resembling a gun growing up...I guess they thought it would lead to violence or some shit.

I had tons of toy guns growing up. My friends and I played cops & robbers, cowboys & Indians, and army from sun up 'til sundown.

To this day I've never owned a real gun, or even fired one.

high fly

01-10-2009, 11:42 AM

high fly

01-10-2009, 11:51 AM

Unrelated, but this is a young Kurt Russell on this toy gun commercial!

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I had both of these, too, as well as another bazooka you had to pump to get it to fire.
I am not making this up.

back then, we had toyboxes full of weaponry.
I also had a Thompson machine gun and a really cool M-14. The company that made the M-14 had a series of them and they came in sort of a commemorative box. The only thing I didn't like about the M-14 is the magazine was transparent plastic, otherwise it looked pretty real.

My fave gun toy was a .30 caliber machine gun on a tripod with the dual grip on the back. When you pressed the trigger, it made a cool machine gun sound and there was a red cylinder a couple inches long that rapidly went in and out the end of the muzzle, as if it were firing.

Kids today are really missing out......

sr71blackbird

01-10-2009, 02:11 PM

I was thinking back, I was born in 1965, and Viet Nam was going on then. My friends brother was drafted and I remember when he finally came back it was so weird and cool, he was so different and he had all these stories and gear. I remember this huge duffle bag. We all used to play "Army" back then, and we idolized military stuff and battles. I bet kids today only think about the war in it's most negative aspects. Not that I am saying war is a good thing, but what I mean is that kids used to look at the military with a lot more respect then they do now. To us they were hero's.

high fly

01-11-2009, 01:01 PM

I was thinking back, I was born in 1965, and Viet Nam was going on then. My friends brother was drafted and I remember when he finally came back it was so weird and cool, he was so different and he had all these stories and gear. I remember this huge duffle bag. We all used to play "Army" back then, and we idolized military stuff and battles. I bet kids today only think about the war in it's most negative aspects. Not that I am saying war is a good thing, but what I mean is that kids used to look at the military with a lot more respect then they do now. To us they were hero's.

I know a guy who used to play with G. Gordon Liddy's kids.
He says they used to have real M-1 rifles to play with that the G-man had removed the firing pin or something from...

Farmer Dave

01-11-2009, 01:20 PM

I had tons of toy guns growing up. My friends and I played cops & robbers, cowboys & Indians, and army from sun up 'til sundown.

To this day I've never owned a real gun, or even fired one.

Child abuse, I say. Why would a kid be teased with the toys and not be given the real thing?