Your first toy gun as a kid...

[PALADIN85020]

I remember my first toy gun. It was a cap gun modeled after a small semiauto pistol. I somehow acquired it at around the age of 4 or 5 about the time World War II ended. It was fun to make it go "bang" and somehow it fascinated me. Like a real gun, I cleaned it and lubed it with some 3-in-1 oil my grandfather had left in the basement of their house which was located in front of ours. Over the years, it disappeared.

Many years later, at an antique show in Phoenix I found an exact duplicate of that little toy, and in a fit of nostalgia, I bought it. Here are a couple of photos.







I still have this little piece of nostalgia in my den; a fun reminder of a pleasant time in my way younger years.

Perhaps you have had a similar experience and/or pictures. It might be interesting to wander down memory lane and revisit your first toy gun -

John

 

[Texas Star]

First I recall was one of those or a Hubley Trooper, which resembles a break-top S&W .38. pretended it was a Webley MK VI until I got a real one at age 13. My first actual handgun...

Many Nichols, Hubley, etc. Colt SAA copies and Civil War guns.

I had a double shotgun marked Dragnet that I pretended was a .465 H&H. I liked cowboys, but my main heroes were white hunters, fighter pilots, and cops.

I had cast alloy Luger, P-38, & Mauser C-96 from Lytle Novelty Co. A friend had their Colt Cobra and 1911.

 

[carpriver]

I had just started school, I got a Roy Rogers set ,a shirt, double holster and 2 6 guns and chaps for Christmas.

 

[Onomea]

That's wonderful that you came across your first cap gun and were able to reacquire it. I don't even remember my first... It was there before my memory starts.

I do recall being with my mom in a general store, and standing, waist high to her, if that, looking up at a wall of shelves and being asked which cap gun I wanted. They were boxed. I pointed waaaaay up there at the one I had in mind. The proprietor retrieved the one on the shelf below and handed it to me. I was too reticent to say I wanted the one above it.

(A learning experience, I'm sure, as I can tell from my remembering it these many years later. I've come to be a lot less reticent since.)

Still, I was pleased to have it anyway!

 

[crazyphil]

I don't really remember if it was the first one or not, but I had a home
made gun when I was a kid. We would cut the rough shape of a pistol
out of a piece of wood about an inch thick. Then fasten a cloths pin to
the back of the grip. Then cut a rubber inner tube into little bands about
half inch wide. Then clip a bit of the tube into the cloths pin and stretch
the remainder of the band out and over the end of the barrel. When
we squeezed the grip the cloths pin would release the rubber band and
it would go flying kinda in the direction the pistol was pointed.

 

[delcrossv]

A series of very cheap cap guns, usually hand-me-downs from my older brother.

Maybe that's where I got my fondness for M-frames.

 

[Golphin]

From what I remember mine were revolvers with the cow boy holsters. I have a couple of old semi auto pistols hanging in my gun room that my father in law had but not sure where he got them.

 

[vonn]

First one that was memorable was a Fanner 50 . Awesome gun and holster! I have been hooked on 6guns ever since.

 

[crazyphil]

And here is my last toy gun. I found the black holster first, and figured
maybe something like a 1903 Colt pistol would fit in it, but I didn't want
to go looking and spend the money for a 1903 Colt.

So I bought this Hubley, which is approximately the size of a 1903 Colt.
It did fit fine. I gave the gun and holster to a great grandson.

 

[Peak53]

I was well outfitted by 1958

Must have been a VERY good boy to score the scooter and the bow and arrows, along with the cap guns, on Christmas! And my sisters thought I was spoiled. Ha!

 

[Willyboy]

Toy Guns

My rather liberal future daughter in law asked me when I got interested
in guns. In other words, have you always been crazy? I showed her a picture of me when I was about five, with a complete Hoppilong Cassidy outfit
with 2 cap guns. In spite of this, she married my son and we get along great.

Willyboy

 

[31FordA]

I was 5 years old when I got my first toy gun, and I can still clearly remember getting it. We were out to dinner at Fisher's on Castor Ave in Northeast Philly and I was telling my grandfather, "Pop", how much I needed a gun so I wouldn't have to borrow other kids guns. Pop decided I was right, and announced we would get one that night. After dinner we went to Kiddie City and I picked out a pair of Single Action cap guns, nickel with stag grips, with a double holster. All of the finest cast metal and plastic. I was the happiest kid in Philly. I still have the guns and holster in a box in the attic.

In no time at all I was the most heavily armed kid around, thanks in large part to Pop. I soon had toy versions of almost every gun you could think of, and was always carrying at least one. If I was a kid now I'd probably get locked up.

 

[Stevens]

Mine was a shiny metal cowboy style cap gun. I had the holster cowboy shirt and hat. somewhere there is a photo of me in the rig if I come across it I'll post it. Many a roll of caps went through it, we didn't have ammo shortages back then! If you did just holler " Bang, Bang! got ya first!"
Steve W

 

[Clarke Hammer]

I was really into cap guns as a youngster. I had quite an accumulation, and when I came of age, my interest naturally progressed to real guns. I was a child of the 1970s and 80s. Does anyone remember Edison cap guns made in Italy? They were very good quality (for a toy cap gun), and more realistic in appearance than most. I had quite a few Edisons, including a PPK lookalike with a removable magazine, which accepted a strip of caps. I felt very cool as a lad dropping a mag and slapping a fresh one into place. I was also into Entertech water guns, also known for their realistic appearance. I believe both companies, Edison and Entertech, were at some point and somehow required to change their designs to look less realistic, as criminals were using them in robberies.

 

[crazyphil]

My rather liberal future daughter in law asked me when I got interested
in guns. In other words, have you always been crazy? I showed her a picture of me when I was about five, with a complete Hoppilong Cassidy outfit
with 2 cap guns. In spite of this, she married my son and we get along great.

Willyboy

I've always been crazy too, but it's kept me from going insane.
With thanks to Waylon Jennings.

 

[Golddollar]

I had a pair of Lone Ranger cap guns. I can remember one time that my late mother took them apart, oiled them and reassembled them.

 

[Iggy]

Canner 50 and an Egyptian surplus .43 cal. Remington Rolling Block rifle.

 

[Buzzzer]

I can't remember the brand names but I had a pair of cap "six guns", dual holsters, hat, vest and boots (oh yes, the sheriffs star too). I remember the smoke from the caps actually came out of the barrel! Grew up in the 70s.

Fast forward to the late 90's when my boys were young. Bought them cap guns as well but my wife couldn't find caps anywhere. She finally asked and was told that, in the town we lived in at the time, caps guns could be sold but caps for the cap guns was illegal. How stupid is that? So, told my wife to go to the next town over and buy the blasted caps. She asked me if we really should but I didn't give a rip. Told her if the city didn't have anything better to do than bust kids with caps in cap guns on our own property then we'll move. We did move but nobody ever complained or showed up...

 

[31FordA]

I was really into cap guns as a youngster. I had quite an accumulation, and when I came of age, my interest naturally progressed to real guns. I was a child of the 1970s and 80s. Does anyone remember Edison cap guns made in Italy? They were very good quality (for a toy cap gun), and more realistic in appearance than most. I had quite a few Edisons, including a PPK lookalike with a removable magazine, which accepted a strip of caps. I felt very cool as a lad dropping a mag and slapping a fresh one into place. I was also into Entertech water guns, also known for their realistic appearance. I believe both companies, Edison and Entertech, were at some point and somehow required to change their designs to look less realistic, as criminals were using them in robberies.

I had one of those PPK's, got it at Ports of the World. Those Edison guns were impressively real looking, and had a actual magazine. I remember I picked the PPK because it was the gun on "The Equalizer". The 80's were great for toy guns. After 2020 I really miss the 80's.

 

[jbtrucker]

1960's Western style cap gun with holster and hat , despite the opinions of snowflakes today never wanted to to shoot anyone except bad guys