This Black man is why your childhood was actually fun

[Secure Da Bag]

Invented Nerf gun and Super Soaker.



Worked on minor stuff like the stealth bomber.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Yep, remember when my momma told me that. Got a Super Soaker with pride

 

[Luke Cage]

Low key disrespectful his name isn't in the title of the thread or the video,
Name is Lonnie Johnson

I appreciate the fact that he got rich of these inventions too. Too many black inventors that ended making some white person rich.
Net worth is 200 million, the entire water gun and nerf gun industry combined is less than a billion today, so it seems like he was fairly compensated too.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

lol my partner works for him. He does some lab shyt. Some real nerd ass shyt. We be like you better tell these folks who your boss is. Then get to telling everybody this nikka boss invented the super soaker, he been plugged in. And my homie just be like smh

 

[⠀X ⠀]

I had a super soaker for all of 3 hours, before my dad came home and said we can’t play with guns

 

[Lord_nikon]

I read about him years ago,, fukking cacs


I had the 50

 

[timeless]

Never got to enjoy a super soaker. All I had was the beach and water balloons

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

momma said we couldn’t play with toy guns. Still god bless Lonnie Johnson for his contributions

 

[Plankton]

We gonna just leave out the part where some parents didn't allow their kids to play with you toy guns? Like my cousin whose BD was murdered by gunfire so she made sure to tell everyone toy guns aren't allowed in her house.

 

[Luke Cage]

Never got to enjoy a super soaker. All I had was the beach and water balloons

My dad only bought us them lil cheap squirt guns they sold in the toy section at dollar trees

 

[Luke Cage]

We gonna just leave out the part where some parents didn't allow their kids to play with you toy guns? Like my cousin whose BD was murdered by gunfire so she made sure to tell everyone toy guns aren't allowed in her house.

i can understand the gun shaped ones, but yall couldn't even play the water squirters.
I forget what they were called but they looked sort of like this.

 

[timeless]

My dad only bought us them lil cheap squirt guns they sold in the toy section at dollar trees

I remember these. My little trigger finger would wear out too fast, so I stuck with the balloons

 

[Plankton]

i can understand the gun shaped ones, but yall couldn't even play the water squirters.
I forget what they were called but they looked sort of like this.

Ask post #8. He said it before I called it.

 

[timeless]

We gonna just leave out the part where some parents didn't allow their kids to play with you toy guns? Like my cousin whose BD was murdered by gunfire so she made sure to tell everyone toy guns aren't allowed in her house.

I do remember this, but with my mom she was more concerned with those BB guns. In my little neighborhood the kids could play with the plastic guns, just not outside the neighborhood or near gang territory. Also, pointing it at people we don't know.

 

[Luke Cage]

Ask post #8. He said it before I called it.

Nah, I meant i was asking if "Toy Guns" includes anything that squirts water even if it doesn't resemble a gun.
What i posted is literally just a siphon pump redesigned as a toy.