[The KG9 Kid]

The gun in question is an AirSoft gun. It's a realistic-looking toy that shoots little plastic beads about hard enough to break through a sheet of tissue paper.

I've seen this pic and others during the day of these demonstrators holding AirSoft guns. Notice the orange ring of paint at the muzzle of the toy.

By the way, these AirSoft guns are often mistaken for the real thing because of their realistic look at a short distance. Some of you might recall how the NYPD displayed dozens of these toys at a press conference after they'd confiscated them from some young adult that was pointing them at passersby. The media covering the story made it out to be that they'd taken dozens of illegal machineguns off the streets of New York, but it was quite obvious that they had nothing but dozens of realistic-looking toys and knew it.

[antonia]

The gun in question is an AirSoft gun. It's a realistic-looking toy that shoots little plastic beads about hard enough to break through a sheet of tissue paper.

Using a prop like that makes it seem, even more, as a set up,a staged scene.

[TLI]

Yep it's an airsoft. Here is a slightly larger version of the pic. You can just see the end of the "barrel"

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[indcons]

Great observation....you’re right.

[rawhide]

So if the real guns are painted with an orange ring on the muzzle, then the cops won’t shoot?