Tell it to Ralphie!
Posted on 07/20/2021 9:24:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
About a week ago, a company in Utah that makes custom modifications to firearms debuted what it described as a fun new product: a kit that encases Glock handguns in red, yellow and blue Lego blocks, refashioning lethal weapons to look exactly like children’s toys.
“We have been building guns out of blocks for the last 30 years and wanted to flip the script to aggravate Mom,” Provo-based Culper Precision explained on its website. It went on to argue that personal defense is a right granted by God and that gun ownership is protected by the Constitution before getting to the most important reason the company was selling “BLOCK19,” as the design was named, for $549 to $765, depending on the specifics.
Dumb, yes, but legal in at least most of the country, said David Pucino, a lawyer at the Giffords Law Center. Although federal law prohibits toys from being manufactured to look like guns, no such law prohibits guns from being made to look like toys. Pucino noted that New York state bans people from disguising firearms as something else, which could make the Lego-crusted Glock illegal there, but he doubted that many other states had passed similar regulations.
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Tell it to Ralphie!
In the early 70’s I had a water pistol that was an exact copy of a Hi Standard Supermatic .22 target pistol.
“...Kids will not know the difference...”
That was my first thought. We have guns and taught the kids early on to leave them alone. What to do on the off chance you found a gun someone had dropped in the bushes near school, etc.
They would have seen this and thought “what a cool toy!” Heck - even an adult not familiar with guns might think it is a toy. Although they would have to not be familiar with Legos too - due to the weight of the thing when they pick it up!
There’s s difference between a toy that looks like a gun (which we’ve all had and loved) and a gun that looks like something else (I still think the dumbest one is a camera).
I miss my Red Ryder!
This was based on information given during a street survival seminar several years ago. Since the information had been based on their sources in police intelligence divisions and street officers reporting on seizures, I decided to trust their word. You, of course, may have different sources.
Well, I’ve never heard of a single case of it happening, so without even a single case (that I could find) of anyone being shot by something they mistakenly assumed was a toy, I think it’s B.S. from unverified sources that are selling paranoia.
On the other hand there are plenty of cases of people getting killed by cops for having something that the officer *thought* was a real gun.
Sounds like paranoid B.S. from a movie to me, however
I think having a gun that looks like something else is utterly stupid, the only purpose it *COULD* serve is to make the fervid fantasy of the kinds of paranoiacs that put on the seminar you attended actually real!
In the early 70’s I had a water pistol that was an exact copy of a Hi Standard Supermatic .22 target pistol.
In the ‘60s I had a Luger water pistol looked a lot like the real thing.
Wow, the teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing.
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