Anyone got a Dalton Dead-ye?

[trevor1]

http://s21.photobucket.com/user/cine...0ad8b.jpg.html

[Garvin]

http://s21.photobucket.com/user/cine...0ad8b.jpg.html

Let me see if I have the message right, Trev. It can "pop a hole" in car windows a block away and its danger to human eyes is portrayed as proof of its power (illustrated by crying toddler).

Dodgy advertising, or what?

[Unframed Dave]

Gotta be a spoof by the antis, surely?

Dave

[Garvin]

Gotta be a spoof by the antis, surely?

Dave

Hard to believe it could be genuine.

[harvey_s]

From a time in US history when cigarettes were advertised as being good for you...

[trevor1]

I found it whilst Googling.Then I found there was a Dalton Bros toy factory in New York-it is now defunct. It would seem to be a reasonably modern spoof on Daisy advertising....I HOPE!

Here it is at a cooking site!Go down to post #15
http://www.cookingjunkies.com/rec-fo...ess-59646.html

[walnutfarmmick]

I found it whilst Googling.Then I found there was a Dalton Bros toy factory in New York-it is now defunct. It would seem to be a reasonably modern spoof on Daisy advertising....I HOPE!

Here it is at a cooking site!Go down to post #15
http://www.cookingjunkies.com/rec-fo...ess-59646.html

Hard to say isn't it, Trev. I loved the lad giving it the hard sell while in the background his kid brother was being loaded into the ambulance. The level of self-awareness reminded me somewhat of Mad magazine.

ATB, Mick

[Rob M]

Apparently it was made by "the National Lampoon" in America, so it is a spoof.

[trevor1]

My initial inclination was MAD,HELP or NL-then I found the Dalton Toy Co! The style of the BB gun looks fairly recent(for our lot)Trev

[Powderfinger]

I thought it must be Mad magazine (sadly no longer available in the UK). Mad used to do quite a lot of satire on gun ownership!

Rob M has identified it as created by National Lampoon.