I believe that this Cowboy/Cowgirl Toothbrush gun was for sale in the mid-1970s, because the only ads I can find for it are from 1976 and 1977.
Odd concept since it required the kids to stick the gun in their mouth. Perhaps the game was suicidal cowboy.
The packaging states that it's protected by
Patent No. 3,063,204. That's incorrect. Patent 3,063,204 has nothing to do with a toothbrush gun. I think
the correct Patent is No. 3,308,836.
Gather the family round for a holiday game of shoot the Christmas tree.
From
Patent No. 11,918,133 (granted Mar 5, 2024):
a person with a game controller such as a light rifle could engage in a game whereby targets are simultaneously or sequentially displayed on the ornament displays and the user attempts to shoot the targets thereby displayed. When the user has properly aimed and fired at a target so displayed, the game controller sensor, in this case a light sensor, can register a successful action and product notification thereof, such as by changing the display to indicate the successful action and/or produce one or more sounds via the ornament's, or ornaments', sound generator(s).
In 1944, U.S. airmen selected Kathleen O'Malley as "the girl we'd most like to see in our bombsight."
Being in the bombsight doesn't sound like a good thing.
Kathleen O'Malley's IMDB page. Her earliest credited role was in 1926 when she was thirteen months old. Her final one was in 1998. That's quite a career.
More info:
wikipedia

Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Nov 24, 1944
Physicist Samuel T. Cohen is credited with inventing the
neutron bomb — a nuclear weapon designed to minimize blast damage but maximize the release of radiation, so that it would kill people but preserve infrastructure.
Cohen later came up with the idea of a neutron radiation wall. This would be a wall of ionizing radiation that would kill anyone who passed through it. He suggested that Israel could build a neutron radiation wall along its border to protect itself from invasion.
He described how this wall would work in a
March 1984 article in Reason magazine:
What I am suggesting is the construction of a border barrier whose most effective component is an extremely intense field of nuclear radiation (produced by the operation of underground nuclear reactors), sharply confined to the barrier zone, which practically guarantees the death of anyone attempting to breach the barrier...
Briefly, this is how such a barrier scheme would work:
During peacetime, the reactors (employed underground, for protection and safety) are operated on a continual basis, as are our power reactors. The neutrons produced by the fission reactions escape into a solution containing an element that, upon absorbing the neutrons, becomes highly radioactive and emits gamma rays (very high energy X-rays) at extremely high intensity. The radioactive solution is then passed into a series of pipes running along the barrier length in conjunction with conventional obstacle components—mines, Dragon's Teeth, tank traps, barbed wire, etc. To the rear of the pipes and obstacle belts is a system of conventional defensive fortifications. (The obstacles, the firepower from the fortifications, and tactical air power all serve to impede the rate of advance of the attacker, increasing the attacker's exposure to the gamma radiation. Vice versa, by quickly incapacitating the attacker, the radiation serves to make it difficult, or even impossible, for the attacker to remove the obstacles and assault the fortifications.) The width of the entire defensive system need be no more than a few miles.
The gamma ray field in the immediate vicinity of the obstacle zone readily can be sufficiently intense that several minutes' exposure will produce incapacitation and ultimately death. However, at a distance of, say, 1,000 yards from the pipes, the radiation intensity is so reduced that people are perfectly safe. In fact, a person could stand all day at this distance without putting himself in jeopardy.
A very British way of asking people to not blow up garbage workers:
[Detective-constable Frank Loydall] urged that members of the public wishing to dispose of explosives of any sort should not put them into dustbins or other refuse containers

Derby Evening Telegraph - May 14, 1966

Mechanix Illustrated - Mar 1941
Ballistic Systems Co. sells bulletproof clipboards, starting at $40. They boast that they've sold "over 170,000 clipboards to law enforcement officers nationwide."
While I'm sure the clipboards really are bulletproof, I'm skeptical about whether they'd be much help in preventing someone from getting shot. Wouldn't the force of a bullet simply knock the clipboard out of their hands?
Contrast this with the
Clipboard Gun we've previously posted about.
via
Book of Joe