Posted on 05/11/2009 12:48:00 PM PDT by RLM
Authorities said a 15-year-old boy playing "cops and robbers" with a toy gun was shot and wounded by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who mistook it for the real thing.
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LOL
No.
The original material was bakelite, and not made by mattel.
After that, the handguards were fiberglass and the pistol grip and stock were plastic, but not made my Mattel.
Only one thing true about this, though:
In the John Wayne film, “The Green Berets” (1968), John Wayne smashes the “M-16” of fallen Sergeant Kowalski (Mike Henry) against a tree. You can see that it isn’t a real M-16, but a toy rifle made by Mattel around that era. The rifle splinters into a number of plastic fragments and you can see the oversized waffle mag.
You can’t smash a real M-16 that easily.
Now we're cookin'
This ended with 2 12 year old boys handcuffed and slammed across the hood of a car, and the grandparents in shock.
The water pistols were lime green, obviously toys.
You best not expect me to take everything a cop says as true, without proof. Too many of them just look for excuses to show off their power.
Snopes agrees with you
http://www.snopes.com/military/m16.asp
Palmdale is in the California desert, north and east of LA.
Home of Lockheed and Boeing.
Palmdale is in the California desert, north and east of LA.
Home of Lockheed and Boeing operations.
I have a “air soft” Baretta replica that is, to my eye, indistinguishable from the real thing. I bought it about 5 years ago, and it has no orange “plug”. I don’t think those are removable, so he might have had an older gun.
I realize how dangerous the “toy” that I have is, and it never leaves the house. I use it for gun safety training to test my kids.
“What do you do?”
“STOP. DON’T TOUCH. TELL AN ADULT!”
Been there many times. Thanks for the double “clarification” though.
My first thought as well.
BANG!!
I had heard that the stocks were made by Mattel, but that’s it.
What really worries me are the pink and blue CCW guns. Is it a water pistol or a real gun?
It would be pretty easy for a kid to mistake a pink gun for a toy or a cop to hesitate, thinking he was facing a toy.
Guns should look like guns and toys should look like toys.
Are they color blind? Did the kid remove the bright red plastic at the tip of the barrel?
My first thought was that the upper age range for that type of game would be about 10-11.
Can’t blame the cop? Are you stupid or what? When I was a kid we all(the kids)owned .45 peace maker look alikes. They were cap guns but a cop could tell the difference and never shot any of us. This is excusable.
While the article initially referred to it as a “toy” it later had “He said the teen apparently had been playing ‘cops and robbers’ using a replica gun that resembled a black semiautomatic pistol with brown grips.”
There’s a big difference between a toy gun and a replica gun.
My though exactly. What 15 year old still plays cops and robbers? Unless he just got off the “short bus”.
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