Rest in peace, Hugh.
(New York Times article. (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/arts/television/hugh-obrian-dies-dashing-tv-star-of-wyatt-earp-was-91.html))
91's Not bad for Wyatt Earp.
Sometime around 1958, almost every kid in the neighborhood had a "Buntline Special" cap gun.
http://www.westerntoyguns.com/?page_id=630
I had a couple of cap guns when I was a kid. I figured out that you could unroll a roll of caps and light one side on fire to make a pint-size firecracker strip, though it frequently stalled halfway through. You could also take a needle and fold up the caps accordion-style and poke them through the center, packing them down and then wrapping them with some paper tape. Stick a match down in and you had a great mini-explosive for blowing up plastic soldiers.
Back then, if they saw a kid with a gun the cops immediately though 'Toy'. Nowadays, not so much. :(
Yeah, now days putting a 'cap' on somebody has a whole different meaning. I remember summer nights with a good buddy, cap guns, and fireflies. I haven't seen either one of the three in years.