Who remembers comic book character "Sarge Steel" with his steel fist and Luger?

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Originally Posted by alanint

I had these as well. They were, of course discontinued as soon as some safety nazi decided you could shoot your eye out with those little grey bullets.

Yep, sadly you're right alanint. But did we ever know anyone who actually shot their eye out with a light little plastic bullet? No one i knew did. That was in the beginning of days of anti-gunners and was just an excuse to start culling and doing away with toy guns that shot toy bullets. They were already gearing up to change the next generations thinking and to propagandize them that toy guns were bad. So that hopefully they wouldn't want a real one when they grew up. It's about conditioning and indoctrinating and we see this by them making examples of kids who eat a pop tart into the vague shape of a gun and get expelled from school for that. Or expelled for just pointing their finger and saying "bang" in playing. It's like Eric Holder said and gleefully admitted in a statement he made, "that the government was going to propagandize and indoctrinate people out of wanting guns". Except for themselves.....of course.

Here's a toy machine gun do it yourself article from the 1920's or '30's that's easy to build (for your kids or grandkids) that shoots wooden dowel bullets via a clothes pin spring. And yet somehow the generation that built these as children, somehow didn't shoot their eyes out and managed to survive to later fight and win WW2. How EVER did they survive those toy wooden bullets to do that?

This old 1920's/'30's do it yourself article shows how to make what looks like a Marlin/Colt "potato digger" machine gun with tripod as used in WW1. It is an ingenious yet simple project that has small wooden dowels for bullets that gravity feed (like a Gardner or Gatling gun) and are projected out of the barrel by spring tensioned wire or slightly modified (stretched out) clothespin spring that is actuated by the cam on a crank. The gravity feed in the plans only holds 12 wooden dowel "bullets", but you could make the gravity feed taller to hold more.

Real Colt/Marlin "potato digger" machine gun.


The toy project machine gun that resembles the "potato digger" machine gun.


Machine-Gun before Hammer has been drawn Back. Notice that the screen door spring or stretched out clothespin spring (H), relies on a long spring for its tension (J).


Machine-Gun with Hammer in Position for Firing. The cam on the crank (L) is just about to release the wire (G), whereupon the tension from the long spring (J) will snap the screendoor/clothespin spring forward, rapidly pushing the wooden dowel "bullet" out of the barrel and allowing another "bullet" to gravity feed downward for the next shot. Pretty cool huh? Kinda like the gravity feed on a magazine fed Chinese and Roman crossbow. You could put rubber tips on the wooden "bullets" or just make sure their wooden ends are rounded so no eye injuries result.


The gravity feed magazine is made from a cut, straightened out and folded, tin can.


Read the complete TWO PAGE article on how to make it here.....

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http://chestofbooks.com/home-improve...chine-Gun.html

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http://chestofbooks.com/home-improve...Continued.html

Defy the toy gun nazis by building your kids or grandkids one. We are all just big kids.





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