"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."
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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I don't let my sone play with toy guns anyway. He's learning to use the real thing.
Yeah, liberals are everywhere these days, even the red states. A real shame.
It's all about money, they just can't seem to grab enough money from whatever means. It's getting ridiculous, we have smoker patrols, toy gun patrols, and people getting stopped for going 1 mile over the speed limit.
They aren't worried about stopping ILLEGALS and REAL crime. They are only interested in stuffing their coffers.
I don't endorse legislation regulating toy guns, but I do believe they are an abomination. The habits kids pick up from playing with toy guns are likely to be very hard to break, and very dangerous, when they start using real guns. By age 5, nearly all kids can handle a .22 revolver with close supervision, and IMO that's about when parents should start teaching them. Skip the toy guns, and introduce the real ones very early.
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid."
.....that could prove to be dangerous...besides ticketing smokers is profitable.....
"I feel safer already"
No doubt they're trying to protect the police officers who might shoot the person aiming a toy gun....
Ordinarily I'd point and laugh, but Houston's getting those, and will start issuing fines (not tickets, of course) September 1.
Deep sigh.
What you said. Hear, hear!
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop on this one.
There are customizers out there who can coat a gun with a baked on finish in just about any color under the sun. Just this past weekend I saw red, pink and green slides on glocks at a local IDPA match.
Once they decide to color the toy guns, they'll be insisting the real guns stay the evil black color.
I learned to shoot about the time I learned to read.
My mother sent me a birthday card a couple of days ago. In it, she had placed an old photo of me at Christmas, aged about 3 1/2. I'm holding a toy gun (pop-gun).
Things haven't changed much in the last 43 years. I now have a large gun collection, and am counting down the days until deer season (4 bucks and 2 does in the yard yesterday afternoon!)
Un-frickin believable! Dallas used to be one of the best places you could ever hope to live.
All the liberal Californians moving to Texas is starting to have an effect, it seems.
Texas just ain't what it used to be, is it? Wish we had Republicans running the state....oh wait.
LOL!
It must really suck to be a little boy today.
Sad, but true. We still have "dry" cities and counties. A while ago, a woman was arrested for selling sex toys in an undercover sting. There are smoking bans popping up in several cities, and traffic cameras put up in many communities.
As if that wasn't bad enough, it seems like every time Dallas is mentioned in the news it's for something shameful-record high crime rates, pollution, low test scores, or police corruption.
Is there anywhere left in America where I can still live a free existence?
Did you ever shoot the matches out of your BB guns? Usually if they srike a hard surface they ignite!
They can't. Those are their constituents, the ones that voted for them. Them, and all the dead guys.
Save us from the nannystater "moderates"...
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