Pin-Up Girl Pistol Lighter

This product really has everything: women, guns and smoking.

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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 13, 2015
Category: Tobacco and Smoking | Sex Symbols | 1950s | Weapons

Comments

$12.50 a dozen if you buy a gross (144). Really, door to door?

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 07/13/15 at 10:07 AM

At $5 a piece you'd make a killing!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 07/13/15 at 01:23 PM

From a distant time when smoking, guns and sex were still cool.

Posted by KDP on 07/13/15 at 01:49 PM

I was going to post the "Pink Panther" scene where Chief Inspector Dreyfus shot of the tip of his nose. I came to this first:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/08/03/woman-mistakes-tiny-revolver-for-cigarette-lighter/

Posted by BMN on 07/13/15 at 05:11 PM

"This product really has everything: women, guns and smoking."
Not quite. Now if it had a church key for beer cans or could be used as a cork for liquor bottles, then it'd be complete!

Posted by Captain DaFt on 07/13/15 at 06:02 PM

with that child who consumed that bible, does he feel holier now?

Posted by James H on 07/14/15 at 12:25 AM

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