Posted on 08/08/2006 9:32:18 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Dallas may drop the hammer on toy guns
Safety panel vote puts city closer to adopting strict ordinance
11:10 PM CDT on Monday, August 7, 2006
By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News
They're Americana slipped into the holsters of little boys in cowboy hats.
But after a 7-1 vote by the City Council's public safety committee, Dallas is closer than ever to passing one of the nation's strictest ordinances regulating the sale and possession of toy guns.
The committee directed City Attorney Tom Perkins to craft an ordinance that would ban all toy guns except those painted a bright color, such as hot pink or neon green, or made of transparent or translucent material.
The toys would also have to reflect light.
Toy guns that don't fit the city's paint/reflection criteria would be illegal even if kept inside a private home or vehicle, council members said.
"I would have liked to see the city absolutely outlaw toy look-alike replica guns, but to get anything progressive done in this part of the country is significant," said the Rev. Peter Johnson, who through the community activism organization Weed & Seed has advocated banning toy guns locally.
Dallas should model its proposal after New York City's toy-gun ordinance, regarded as one of the country's most stringent, the committee told Mr. Perkins. A small percentage of municipalities, including Plano, have also further regulated toy guns beyond a federal provision requiring toy makers to place an orange cap over gun barrels.
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If they outlaw toy guns, only outlaws will have toy guns.
They'd do better to ban real guns from street gangs in Dallas.
When they came for the lawn darts I did nothing...
LOL
Dallas is filled with metrosexual pantywaists. It no more belongs in Texas than Austin does.
Do they have a problem with illegal toy guns in that area? Menacing child gangs in their cowboy hats and chaps, perhaps?
No more "action" movies will be shot in Dallas then.
I feel safer already. /s
Don't they have anything more important to do?
Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.
Don't these people have anything to do? They are certainly wasting tax payer money!
I think the Texas legislature should override this PC nonsense. No wonder the Dallas Cowboys are moving even further from Dallas.
To think when I was a kid we had bb gun and an archery set (pointy metal-tipped arrows) and cap guns etc. Not to mention matches that would strike on just about anything...
Fox had a bit on states that allow homeowners the right to bear arms and protect their homes from "invaders". Texas was not on their list. ???
We should send em toy guns.
The toys would also have to reflect light.
OK, I have to ask this question. What is to prevent someone from doctoring up a real gun so that it resembles a toy?
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