Bob Menendez: You're Damn Right I'm Going to Take Your (Toy) AR-15 Away

PJ Media ^ | 11/21/2019 | Stephen Green

[RightGeek]

You know what the problem is with toys these days? They're just too much fun. But don't you worry, because Senator Bob Menendez (D-Somehow Acquitted) is all over it.

The New Jersey Democrat, along with fellow busybodies Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are "urging action" from the Consumer Product Safety Commission on the vital issue of toy guns that look cool. They demand that federal regulators "issue new, stricter controls on toy, imitation, air and BB guns" because the existing regulations allow for toy guns that don't look totally dorky.

Except... they already do look totally dorky. As Menendez's office admitted in his own Very Important Press Release on the matter, "Current regulations require ‘a blaze orange plug inserted in the barrel of such toy, lookalike, or imitation firearm,’ or that toy guns be brightly colored singly or in combination with specified colors, have an orange marking on the barrel's exterior, or be made fully of transparent or translucent materials."

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If you don't have young children and aren't aware of how desperately uncool modern toy guns are required to look by law, check the Amazon listings for Star Wars blasters. What you'll find is a selection of orange and white crapola so lame-looking that my friends would have pantsed me for bringing one of those things over to their house to play.

[RightGeek]

Candy Ass Senators

[OttawaFreeper]

[CatOwner]

A tactic that works well with women in the voting booth.

[Highest Authority]

If you are caught in possession of a SLINGSHOT IN New Jersey you get jail time and a $10,000 fine. This is not a joke!

[dljordan]

Funny how brave progressives are when they’re hiding behind armed men.

[JimRed]

THE BOY SCOUTS, Bart Simpson, angry protesters and random kids in the woods with a stick and rubber band have used them for decades.

In New Jersey, though, possession or transport of a slingshot is a felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison, and there are a few residents, a gun-rights attorney and a state assemblyman trying to change the law.

"There was no crime wave of slingshots that ever resulted in them becoming illegal," said gun-rights attorney Evan Nappen.

Nappen and Assemblyman Ron Dancer, a Republican from New Jersey's 12th District, believe the law was a result of a typographical error in 1978 that turned slungshot to slingshot. A slungshot, sometimes called a monkey's fist, is basically a hard ball or knot, affixed to a rope or cord that would-be robbers could use to whack someone in the head. (excerpt of a Philadelphia Inquirer article)

[Right Wing Assault]

When you come to my house, ring the bell. My dog will go berserk. We'll take it from there.

Just a joke!

[Jim Noble]

Bob Menendez: You're Damn Right I'm Going to Take Your AR-15 Away

Which one?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If you are caught in possession of a SLINGSHOT IN New Jersey you get jail time and a $10,000 fine.

If I ever get caught in New Jersey I'll deserve jail time and a $10,000 fine.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

When you come to my house, ring the bell. My dog will go berserk. We'll take it from there.

Same here. My beautiful dog wouldn't hurt a blind kitten, but he does yeodog's work at keeping the watch.

[US_MilitaryRules]

That guy would take your guns faster than menendez.

[dead]

A corrupt child rapist wants my guns. Big surprise.

[Eddie01]

So does preempting their morning and daytime shows.

Grandma’s and mom’s love that! /s

[marktwain]

The one time the police came to my driveway (there was an actual misunderstanding) in the 13 years we've lived here, the entire cul-de-sac stepped outside to gaze upon the police cruiser as though an endangered cheetah had taken up residence on my property.

This is not so far off of the way most of America was in the 1950s.

[Bullish]

You’ll do no such thing Bob. Try it and you’re finished.

[Pajamajan]

This needs a Burgermeister Meisterburger (Santa Claus is Coming to Town old movie) meme .

[Trump.Deplorable]

New Jersey is actually a beautiful state

We just put the airport, landfills, sea ports, power plants, trash burners, oil refineries, chemical factories, rail yards, Turnpike, junk yards, petro fields, Newark, in one spot to keep the New Yorkers out

The taxes and gun laws suck though

[PGalt]

The National Socialists are preparing the battlefield. Ready - Aim - Vote

[PGalt]

GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN UNCHALLENGED by “government”.

[philman_36]

I had a cap gun when I was a kid,
Its shiny imitation nickel was a sight.
Staring back when you lifted the toy box lid,
It was, after all, so very bright.

Pick a side and maybe roll in the dirt,
Cop and robber or Indian and Cowboy.
We knew nobody would actually get hurt,
It was, after all, just a toy.

If you ran out of caps that was okay,
It made a cool sound just the same.
We didn't really need them anyway,
It was, after all, just a game.

Our kids don't know of the times we had,
And our fun we don't even mention.
You can't let them have it and be a good Dad,
It was, after all, for the children.

The moral of my story is a trip,
A possibility of a child's playful outing.
For if they have a gun without a plastic tip,
It was, after all, an accidental shooting.