Toy Guns Pulled From Costume Shop Shelves

Million Mom March (united with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence) ^ | 12/23/2004 | Million Mom March (from New York Times)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Now, come on! How ridiculous are things going to get in New York? Will orange-striped barrels really prevent kids from being shot by police? What about simply urging parents to teach their little brats not to point toy guns at the police?

[PeterFinn]

That'll stop the rise in toy crimes!!!

Imaginary bullets kill more imaginary people than any other known cause.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

This is un-REAL PING!

[AdamSelene235]

Only an idiot would give their kid a toy gun.

Buy them a real one instead.

[Future Snake Eater]

Just get your toy guns from here.

[PeterFinn]

The real problem is how will the NY legislature mandate not an orange stripe down the barrel of every toy gun, but a yellow stripe down the back of every New Yorker.

[dansangel]

Arrrggghhhh....keep posting these MMM articles of lies and I am going to have a stroke!

These people are out of control.

[stopem]

LOL!!

Million March Moms against gun violence? Sounds like the loony left to me.

[punster]

Now, some enterprising hit man (or hit woman) will buy some orange tape and run it down the sides of his/her gun barrel, so their victim will only believe it to be a toy gun....until it is too late!

The point is: They are a bunch of damned liars at the Brady Center (aka Handgun Control) and the Million Moron March is just a bunch of their lackeys.

[SittinYonder]

Toy guns are hard to find. I've got three boys who love to play Army, and we're constantly on the hunt for toy guns. Besides, they're all plastic and break within minutes of getting them out of the packaging.

[Critical Bill]

Off Topic:

Just caught Adam Sandler playing ( guitar) "werewolf of london" on David Letterman. And guess what...he's good!

(Back to our normal program)

Ps sorry Tolerance Sucks Rocks

[Fiddlstix]

Only an idiot would give their kid a toy gun.

Buy them a real one instead.

Works for me.

[Wolfhound777]

"What about simply urging parents to teach their little brats not to point toy guns at the police?"

That would mean individual responsibility. Something liberals either are unable to do or detest as it is much easier to blame society.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Without admitting wrongdoing, Rubie's Costumes Co. agreed to pay $27,000 in civil penalties and costs and Franco American Novelty Co. agreed to pay $10,000.

Looks like someone's probably going to lose their job, but it's a small price to pay to keep those dangerously unstriped toy guns off the street.... /sarcasm

[Sender]

If toys are outlawed, only outlaws will have toys. From my cold, dead hands, toy grabbers!

[Shellback Chuck]

They can have my lone ranger cap gun when they pry it from my cold dead hand.

[shellshocked]

"ill orange-striped barrels really prevent kids from being shot by police? "

That just tells you how out of control and incompetent cops have become.

[The Teen Conservative]

That's dumb...

[dasboot]

Aggravated Possession of Toy Firearm: Felony

Possess while smoking in public.

Possess while wearing "cowboy" or "gangster" apparel.

Uttering "bang, bang" while feigning recoil.

[Drew68]

In 1997, he said, four people were killed and a child was seriously injured when police thought toy guns were real ones.

IIRC weren't a few of these unfortunate folks trying to commit crimes with their toy guns?