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Submitted by Jessica W
Cap Guns represent a time and place when life and the world was simpler. Boys could run around and shoot at each other with toy guns full of blast caps and nobody thought twice about it. They were only limited by their parent’s patience and their supply of refills.
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Mom confiscated our cap guns, so we made guns out of wood. Good times.
My brother loved to pretend that he was killing people. And the piano. He shot me and he shot the furniture, many times.
Total win! But the big question is ring caps or roll caps? I always liked roll caps better.
roll caps! You could set light to one end, and if you held it taut enough, it would burn down setting each one off!
Definately the roll caps. I used to take the entire roll out of the box (that’s all FOUR rolls still stuck together) put it on the sidewalk, and then drop a large rock on top so the WHOLE THING blew at once. This, of course, was loud enough to be heard over a mile away, and left my ears ringing for the rest of the day. But it was SO worth it!
Before most of them broke from overuse, I had an impressive collection. Four roll-cap guns, and two ring-cap guns. I got them from a 99-cent store. On the rare occasion I was able to get enough caps to fill them all, I’d get with a friend and we’d act out the lobby scene from The Matrix (that had just come out, in 1998) which was totally awesome when you’re 11… ^^
omg i thought i was the only dumb kid on the block that did that…it got to the point where i didnt even care about the gun i was interested on how just 2 or 3 sounded compared to the roll…it was either these or those damn zebra pellets…soft bb my ass!
Ring caps. We cut off one of the caps and then played russian roulette…
The only gun I was allowed to have as a child was the NES one for Duck Hunt. I couldn’t even get GI Joe’s cuz they came with guns. But I got to play with cap guns at friends houses, they were definitely made of kewlness. Nowadays cops would be all to ready to shoot a kid for brandishing one of these…
I was fortunate to have toy guns, lots of them actually. My parents thought if they would forbid me to have any, I might buy a gun when I get older just to see what’s its like. Maybe they let me have too many, but my brothers and I loved to play with them and they were some of our favorite toys.
They were also part of the few toys that we would play with in the garden.
And now I play AirSoft and I support gun owning and gun carrying rights.
Yet, I can still dissociate movies from reality and I realize how dangerous guns can be when handled improperly. I don’t even think I would buy a gun myself unless I feel the risk of being attacked in my house is high.
I think my passion for guns is due to the culture I grew up in, and the shows for children I would see on TV that featured weapons. I think playing with toy guns taught me to be responsible with guns, especially the ones that would shoot projectiles of any kind (foam darts, etc.)
By the way, wasn’t this picture on this website already? I’m sure I saw it somewhere, and not at my local walmart.
I like sites like this because they prove folks like you are still around.
Unfortunately there still aren’t enough of you to influence some cultural biases I might name…
Anyway, you can still get guns like these in Holland.
My parents had the same idea. I was forbid from guns that looks like “guns” (If it looked like Nerf or a Super Soaker, I could play with it.) and GI Joes with guns because they wanted me to respect guns we had in the house. (Hunters.)
Clearly everyone must be lying, guns have to make you into a crazed murderer, people can’t have self-responsibility, the media said so!
Heh, I used to(and still do, lying around in some container) two steel(with plastic grip) capguns with holsters so I’d dual-wield them and have quick-draw competitions with the neighbors.
I had a ton of these when I was a little *girl*. I liked roll caps better too, though.
Heck, back in my day the cap guns could look like normal guns. No strange colored plastic, no orange tips.
I had a roll cap set of cowboy pistols. One for each hand. Man, I miss those days sometimes
Same here…I miss those days too.
I feel awful that kids these days are treated in such a pussified manner that they’ll never know what it was like to be real kids…or how to be real adults when the time comes. What a shame.
My brother had a cap gun. It didn’t annoy me nearly as much as his suction-cup bow-and-arrow set, which he constantly shot me in the eye with.
the roll caps were best because if something happened to the pistol you could still pop the caps with a hammer on the side walk
Oh, yeah!
Skip that neon plastic, though.
I had REAL METAL cap guns when I was a young’un.
I liked roll caps the best, but had some that used ring and even strip caps. The strip guns were Italian and looked and felt freakin’ REAL, even had wood grips on one.
We used to make “cap grenades” out of the whole pack of roll caps. We either lit them (which was visually very cool) or dropped something heavy on them for a lot of bangitude. I once threw one under the lawnmower when my dad was cutting the grass. My ass stung for a week, but it was worth it.
Metal revolvers with holsters… used to be a lot of fun.
Good times.
Boys??!!???
Everyone in my neighborhood had cap guns.
No gender distinctions!
Yeah lol true, I thought the same thing! xD
Gender streriotypes and gender segregation suck.
All we had back in the 50’s was roll caps. And yes, we did blow them off one roll at a time with a large rock, and YES it did make your ears ring.
The problem with roll cap guns was that the feed didn’t always feed the caps right so you’d get bang bang bang click click bang click
Cap guns were only okay. All they could do was make noise.
Now the plastic pellet guns, or plastic disc guns.. those could be used to put out eyes, terrify animals and annoy older sisters to death BESIDES making noise.
Those things STUNG too!
That’s is a magnificent cap gun! never had one THAT fancy
My cap guns were designed to look as real as possible. None of this yellow and orange crap!
I have 3 of these, but they aren’t that modern looking.
And I have a bunch of caps for them too.
We still see these at my work in Texas. Go figure.
I had the “Cap Bomb”. You slide one cap from the roll inside the bomb and it was held in with spring tension. You threw the bomb and it went BANG on impact.
Yes, I had that, too. It also had a little button on the nose where you could slip on a single one from the ring caps, though the fit wasn’t perfect, so that probably wasn’t the intended design. But it’s amazing it didn’t break after all the times you chuck it onto concrete or whatever…