Posted on 08/03/2015 12:53:35 PM PDT by PROCON
New York is forcing Walmart, Amazon, and other retailers to pay over $300,000 for the crime of selling toy guns.
The settlement stems from an investigation by the state’s attorney general office, which sent cease and desist letters to the retailers in December for breaking its strict law against children’s toys.
“State law prohibits the sale of imitation guns in realistic colors such as black, blue, silver, or aluminum, unless it has a non-removable one-inch-wide orange stripe running down both sides of the barrel and the front end of the barrel,” according to the attorney general office. All fake toy guns must be neon colored in New York City.
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Same thing is happening on eBay.
They will pull any listing of a toy gun that doesn’t have a “permanent” orange plug in the barrel.
People are buying orange foam earplugs and are sticking them in the barrels just to make the eBay anti-gun nazis happy.
The real money is being made by the people selling the earplugs.
What about toy knives?
What about toy hair curler’s?
What about knitting needles?
What about them?
Oh my GOD!!!
I'm armed!!
Crack down on me!!!
Today 24 shootings reported over the weekend, yeah toy guns are the way to go stupid!
I've got a couple of ....machinist's scrapers
The old mobsters probably realized that it was more lucrative and much safer to go into politics. Why flee from the DA when you can elect him?
ID Like you were trying to buy beer or sumptin...
Because you can’t buy spray paint in NYC either, you can’t spray paint your realistic neon-colored toy gun black.
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What’s to keep someone from using Day-Glo orange tape to mark a real gun so that it appears to be a toy gun?
An arsenal!
Depends on how many tines. Too many and they become assault forks!
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