re: #174 Big Beautiful Door

Just a reminder, in Cleveland next week protestors may only carry real guns that fire real bullets. No bb guns or water pistols allowed.

GIs were specifically forbidden to have toy, replica, or otherwise non-functional firearms in Vietnam as well. They probably thought some sleepy-eyed type would grab his Mattel Marauder instead of a real M-16 during an infiltrator alert, with decidedly embarrassing results. Given the haste with which people responded to these alerts, it might have been possible, even though the actual bullet-spitter is about 5 times as heavy.