It's all gone a bit wrong these days. My childhood was built around movies like war films and westerns.
We had pistols that fired caps. These came in green or red rolls (with little black dots of powder) that you loaded into your sixshooter and put in your holster.
Grubby knees, cowboy hats, really bad american accents, plastic cowboys that came to bits so you could put their arms and heads on back to front.
There were plastic horses you couln't paint cos they were all greasy from your fingers. There were forts and good guys and bad guys and Sheriff badges.
Today...
Kids can't buy plastic guns any more. Gunpowder caps are probably subject to Health and Safety red tape and the (original) milky bar kid's ridden off into the sunset.
But we can still pretend to be a US Marshal or Sheriff (or a Texas Ranger). We've got a great sheriff star belt buckle for this.
There's no lettering on this polished metal star, so you can wear it and pretend to be whoever you want to be - the sheriff of Tombstone or the Deadwood Marshal.
Don't think you need to go with the face hair though. Some of those dudes grew some serious moustaches!
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