Just been loading the start of a collection of some 1940's....1950's airgun ads from more enlightened times (" dads got an airsporter...its super...I'me getting one for christmas!")......etc......anybody interested please go to; http://www.flickr.com/photos/3122848...7608030264100/

see how the makers sold them as safe fun for the teaching of responsible gun handling etc. ...try this today in kids magazines (these adverts mostly came from boys own paper etc....the target reader age then was 8-16 years old).......and you can see the headlines already "SHOCK HORROR...THEY WANT OUR KIDS TO BE KILLERS" cut to distressed mums and focus groups, stern firearms "specialists" gingerly holding up gat pistols etc, etc,.......signing off now as getting grumpy again!.....(note to self)...a dinnertime of airsporter therapy needed tomorrow I think will get me back to normal.