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To: Chanticleer
"The pellet gun is powered by a carbon-dioxide gas cartridge. Barrels on such guns are normally red or pink, to distinguish them from real guns, Eslinger said. But the barrel on Chris' gun, he said, had been painted black and was virtually identical to the real thing."

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Why wouldn't a bad guy paint the barrel of his real gun red or pink to give him a split-second advantage over the cop? I never understood this stupid law.

27 posted on 01/14/2006 7:06:38 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
Why wouldn't a bad guy paint the barrel of his real gun red or pink to give him a split-second advantage over the cop? I never understood this stupid law.

I've wondered that myself.

33 posted on 01/14/2006 8:51:28 AM PST by Chanticleer (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Lewis)
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