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Daisy B-B guns - 1975 (i.imgur.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://archive.org/details/1975-advertisement-for-daisy-b-b-guns

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love that it starts off with wowing your dad so he knows you're ready to learn gun safety. Before getting the gun. Oh how the times have changed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is hunting gun that shot lead peper. Still not harmless, but it peper cannot go through wall, so chance you harm someone unintentional is low.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh I'm well aware of the capabilities of a bb gun. As were the manufacturers and they led with gun safety and responsibility in their own ad to prove the kid was ready for gun ownership. You don't see that these days. Hell probably not the last two decades at least. This just helps describe a decline in gun owner/manufacturing emphasis on personal responsibility with guns as it led towards fear mongering as a sales strategy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What I want for Christmas.

What I want is a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock... and this thing which tells time. I think that everybody should have a Red Ryder BB gun. They're very good for Christmas. I don't think that a football's a very good Christmas present.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

C+

"You'll shoot your eye out"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Back then, they ads sport gun as it was real gun.

Nowadays, they ads real gun as it is toy.