Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Today, a nerf gun. Tomorrow, an almost realistic gun in a video game?. Sounds like someone didn't get the Red Ryder BB gun he asked Santa for when he was 9.



http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/12/20/sl ... -for-kids/

oh you gotta be kidding right? i woulda gave my left you know what to have some of the toys the kids have today! all i had was laser tag 1.0 (funky but kinda fun). when i was a kid the laws were just changing for fake toys to have orange tips on the barrel. the writer needs to go out and play with NERF and chill!!!

Somebody has to kill the fun. A while back my youth group used to play a little dodge ball before starting until some parent important to the church complained that it was to violent and must be stopped and that's exactly what happened. Ruined all the fun.......

I miss the realistic looking toy guns. I wish that I had hung on to the ones that I had; I would have loved to pass them on to my son.

WTF is a Farhad Manjoo? sounds like a fruity night club drink for those light in the loafers,,,,, That dude is one pathetic mess in need of serious help

My childhood ended pretty much just before the first big "Super Soakers" were coming out. When I was a kid, we called them "squirt guns," and they were exactly that - cheap, injection-molded plastic things that looked exactly like miniature semi-auto pistols - replete with slide catch, mag release button, etc. Except that they were translucent or transparent plastic, in bright colors.

I also had cap guns - do they even make those anymore? Probably not - too dangerous and war-like. I used to take a whole roll of caps and smash it with a hammer on the concrete basement floor to make a bigger bang. Then I would take a big whiff of the burned explosive and paper.

Last year for Christmas, my wife bought two big Nerf guns, sorta similar to the one shown above. One for my younger daughter, and one for ME. Ours are pump-action, with a detachable drum magazine. They hold 30 of those foam darts. And they go surprisingly far and are surprisingly accurate. We've had a blast with them. We're always finding darts behind and under furniture. Now they have an automatic model, apparently, and my daughter wants one of those. We'll have to buy a few bags of darts - they sell them in bags of 100.

I want to go buy some of these just to annoy the GFWs.*

* Gun-fearing wussies (tm Kim DuToit)