[night reader]

The toy guns have orange caps on their barrels, as required by federal law, but they don't have nonremovable orange stripes down the barrel's length as New York law requires, Spitzer's lawsuit contends.
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What's to prevent anyone from painting bright orange stripes down the barrel and around the muzzle of a S&W Mod 29? Does that make a weapon any less lethal? Yet it might make a cop a little less wary!

[Blue Screen of Death]

What's to prevent anyone from painting bright orange stripes down the barrel and around the muzzle of a S&W Mod 29? Does that make a weapon any less lethal? Yet it might make a cop a little less wary!

Exactly. A moment hesitation by a cop who sees the orange on the barrel gives the bad guy a big advantage.

[B Knotts]

What's to prevent anyone from painting bright orange stripes down the barrel and around the muzzle of a S&W Mod 29? Does that make a weapon any less lethal? Yet it might make a cop a little less wary!

Ha! That's the first thing that popped into my mind. It has to have crossed the mind of more than one NY crook.

[Mears]

Good Lord,I never thought of the criminal painting orange stripes on a real gun.

Looks like another dumb,feel-good law to me.

[panaxanax]

"What's to prevent anyone from painting bright orange stripes down the barrel and around the muzzle of a S&W Mod 29?"

OR:

Choosing your plastic orange-striped pistol then walking to the hardware section (about 35' from the toy guns) and getting some black spray paint or electrical tape?

I wish Wal-Mart would fight this.