November 20 in Firearms History

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  1. Birthday1948 · 78 years ago

    Alan Amron – Born

    November 20, 1948

    • May 10, 1980 patented first battery-powered automatic water gun
    • Used by: Larami, LJN Entertech, Tyco, Mattel, Buddy L, Coleco, Playtime and Blue Box toys
    • Sept 8, 1986 article he said "Because of the war in Vietnam, no one was buying toy guns, Now, Rambo and Bambo and suddenly it's okay.. I don't like guns either. But I've never known anything that could make money this fast"
    • 1994 - invented, a voice-activated, multidirectional water-spouting headset

    https://patents.google.com/patent/US4022350

    "Because of the war in Vietnam, no one was buying toy guns, Now, Rambo and Bambo and suddenly it's okay.. I don't like guns either. But I've never known anything that could make money this fast"