Boy, they are really stretching to call a metal cap gun one of the 10 worst toys. And they really missed the mark here, if they wanted to make fun of a derringer on a buckel near your crotch they would have been better off picking on the Matell version, it not only fired "Greenie Stick'em Caps", but it even shot a small plastic bullet out of the gun thanks to a 22 cabiber like Matell "Shootin' Shell".

If you look at the 2 pictures you'll see they are not for the same thing. The lower open box picture is indeed for the Gilbert set. This was a really great scientific kit and nowhere near as dangerous as is claimed, even though one of those radioactive sources was a Gamma source! The upper box is actually a Kit from American Basic Science Club, not the Gilber Kit at all. ABSC sold a set of 9 kits that could come as monthly mailings or all at once that covered electronics, optics, photography, atomic energy and more, and sold for less than $50 total. They acomplished a lot of this by clever reuse of the parts in the kits. They also sold many of the things covered in the 9 kits as individual labs, the box shown here is such a lab.

And yes. I had both of them. I bought the ABSC kits with my newspaper route money. The Gilbert Kit was handed down in used condition from a cousin. No children were harmed in the learning of science, and I suspect I may never have been involved in sciene if the current mentality reflected in the lame kits available for children now and demonstrated in including these items in this list was in effect at the time.