The link below is a 1950’s TV ad for the “Cosmic Smoke Gun”. And, the gun ships to you loaded.

YouTube - SPACE PATROL COSMIC RAY GUN WITH RELOADING POWDER

man ... sometimes I feel like i was born into the wrong era.
I wonder how much shredded wheat a kid would've devoured to get a tommy gun.

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Kelly,

Thanks! Had one, forgot all about it until this video.

VB, If you like this you would have loved my Mattel wind-up replica of the M-3 Sub-machine gun. Basically full size. It would really go through rolls of caps in a hurry! They made a later version that look nearly identical but didn't have the spring motor so it didn't simulate full-auto like the wind-up one did. This was during the "active stage" of the Korean War.

These were much better days!!

I had a Cosmic Smoke Gun, too, and several other ray gun items. Used to watch Rocky Jones, Space Ranger and simlar shows.

I think my first crush was on Vena Ray (from the Rocky Jones show) or on one of the Mouseketeers.

I never liked the Star Trek phasers as much as I could have, because they seemed more like something designed by an engineer into computers more than he was into firearms. The muzzles seemed too close to the hand for real safety.

Now that brings back memories, thanks a bunch.

These days, I suspect, soccer mom's would fall into paroxysms of hysteria, school officials would threaten expulsion, and kids would be sent off for psychological evaluations for simply possessing such psychologically crippling toys. Imagine --- Cosmic Smoke --- gateway to assault weapons ...

well if they'd just give up their own cosmic smoke perhaps they wouldn't be so paranoid

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Somehow I doubt that their cosmic smoke is "guaranteed harmless" like the original stuff was.........and for 0.25, you got a stash of reloading packets too!

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I devoured 3 boxes of Wheaties + 50¢ to get a Thompson SMG squirt gun. Must have held 24 ounces of water and shot 20 feet when you squeezed the trigger hard. I was tough on bumble bees in the flower garden.

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The good ol days.