Gun ads in Boy's Life encouraged youngsters to shoot hawks
Here's an interesting collection of gun and ammo advertisements from 1950s issues of Boy's Life. My father had a gun as a kid, and so did all the kids in the neighborhood where he grew up. Times have changed. Link
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