"The officers ordered him to stop and to show his hands and he went into his waistband and pulled out the weapon," [Cleveland Deputy Chief Ed Tomba] said.Tomba showed reporters the weapon -- a large, black BB- or pellet-type replica gun resembling a semiautomatic pistol. An orange tip indicating the gun was an air gun had been removed, police said.
So what's to keep a criminal from putting some orange paint on the muzzle of a real handgun to make police think it's just a BB or pellet gun?
fta .....An orange tip indicating the gun was an air gun had been removed, police said.
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BS! B-B guns are not TOY guns and do not require orange tips.
I saw numerous postings on an earlier FR thread that referred to them as toy guns. Those people apparently have never killed birds, squirrels, etc., with a B-B gun, as I have.