12-11-19 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[browningautorifle]

The kid's carrying what? One of those little Mattel guns? They actually had cartridges and you had to change mags and operate them?

[Mark in Rochester]

[browningautorifle]

That's it, first one I've seen outside the commercials of the era...wanted one so badly too. Then I had to settle for the real thing...

[Mark in Rochester]

wanted one too!

[CINDERS]

Pretty game wandering around with what appears to be a real weapon in a riot zone not sure I would want to do that sorta stuff, kid or no kid we have seen even young ones can be perpetrators.

[RazorBurn]

Pretty game wandering around with what appears to be a real weapon in a riot zone not sure I would want to do that sorta stuff, kid or no kid we have seen even young ones can be perpetrators.

Back then and even the thirty some years ago of my youth kids carrying around and playing with toy guns raised absolutely zero concern. Even though they were scaled down versions of the real thing you could tell if it was a toy or not. Long gone are those days. Now if a kid makes his peanut butter and jelly sandwich look like a pistol he's suspended.

[RASelkirk]

Back then and even the thirty some years ago of my youth kids carrying around and playing with toy guns raised absolutely zero concern. Even though they were scaled down versions of the real thing you could tell if it was a toy or not. Long gone are those days. Now if a kid makes his peanut butter and jelly sandwich look like a pistol he's suspended.

Amen! Finished HS in upstate NY in '71. Most, if not all, trucks in the student parking lot had gunracks with at least one gun in them. Guns were regularly raffled at school and the winner was to pick them up in the principal's office on the way home...

Russ

[rcnanman]

Original pic from Detroit? looks like a clinched fist on the patch, Michigan Guard, 46th inf ?