Shooting Star Tommy Gun

Shooting Star Tommy Gun
Type Pneumatic BB machine gun
Place of origin United States
Production history
Manufacturer Feltman
Shooting Star Inc
Variants Tommy Gun
Combat
Specifications
Sights Iron
Laser pointer

The Shooting Star Tommy Gun is a pneumatic machine gun manufactured by Shooting Star Inc.[1][2] It was invented by Charles A. Feltman,[3] the son of Charles Feltman, often credited as the inventor of the hot dog in Coney Island, New York with young Feltman previously inventing a hot dog roll toaster.

The first version of the game was called "Mow 'Em Down" and featured a pneumatic machine gun resembling a water cooled heavy machine gun and was invented in 1939.[4] Later Feltman modified the design to resemble a Thompson submachine gun with a patent granted in 1941[5] The weapon fired 100 .177 BBs.

Feltman industries operated in Coney Island for many years until it then moved to New Jersey and became Shooting Star Inc, as the object of the game was to shoot out all traces of a red star on a white paper card.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.shootingstargames.com/
  2. ↑ Air Machine Guns by Larry Behling
  3. ↑ http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2801624.html
  4. ↑ p.0 Ranson, Jo Boro Hot Dog Scion Makes Machine Guns The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 7 December 1939
  5. ↑ http://www.google.com/patents/US2312244
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