From the same era when heroin was sold as the non-addictive alternative to morphine. “Truth in advertising” wasn’t a thing then.
“Truth in advertising” wasn’t a thing then.
Is it a thing now?
Sounds like a hell of a time to be alive!
Mod of the Forgotten Weapons community chiming in to explain. Iver Johnson revolvers featured a (at the time) new safety mechanism that prevented the guns from going off when dropped. I wouldn’t recommend giving it to a baby though.
More famously they had a “Hammer the Hammer” ad series where they showed this off.
Post with more info: https://lemmy.world/post/10228746
That’s not a baby. She’s old enough to own at least 2 or 3 guns!
The baby is on the right duh
She was probably teething and they put some opium on her pacifier.
That’s a pretty sweet looking revolver though
It’s not a toy, but let your children play with it?
“Accidental discharge impossible.”
If only all those kids who shot themselves had better parents who bought “the right” gun.
An accidental discharge is not a negligent discharge.