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To: KLP who wrote (149243)11/30/2005 12:56:35 AM
From: kumar  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793926
 
Those nice cap guns are available to kids in India even now....

could get u a couple if u can guarantee I wont be sent to Gitmo as "enemy combatant" :-) (I will be in India Christmas week)



To: KLP who wrote (149243)11/30/2005 1:22:11 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793926
 
>>we took the roll of caps, put each little piece of powder on the sidewalk, and struck it with a big rock....<<

I think there was about five rolls of caps to a box, and about fifty caps to a roll. You could explode an entire roll at once by laying it sideways on the sidewalk and ramming straight down on it with a vertical softball bat. As a firecracker substitute on the 4th of July, I would line up the rolls on the sidewalk and fire them off in rapid succession. Fifty caps going off at once makes a hell of a bang, and a lot of gunsmoke wafting on the breeze!



To: KLP who wrote (149243)11/30/2005 6:40:43 AM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 793926
 
they don't sell cap guns anymore? how can these kids grow up without caps? next they will outlaw fireworks. like fire crackers, cherry bombs,, boy those were fun. then to mfg your own. oops i guess to day to make some gun powder might end you up in jail. I think every kid with a chemistry set made gun power and/or sparklers at one time or another.

maybe they outlawed chemistry sets too.