Posted on 08/04/2015 10:04:28 AM PDT by aimhigh
The attorney general is slated to announce today settlements with five retailers, including some industry giants, for selling toy guns that don’t fit state appearance requirements.
Walmart, which sold 149 illegal toy guns throughout the state, including 20 in New York City, also agreed to pay a $225,000 penalty.
Eric Schneiderman says Walmart, Amazon, Kmart, Sears, and online retailer ACTA agreed to the settlement.
Rice was shot and killed by patrol officers who said they thought the boy’s toy gun, which did not have the brightly colored markings indicating it was a toy, was real. All told, the attorney general found that 6,429 of the realistic-looking toy guns were sold in New York by the five retailers from 2012 to 2014.
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Society is lucky that most of these “thugs” are dumb as hell. It has never entered their minds to put some orange paint on their real guns. Just one “enterprising thug” could start selling guns with orange painted barrels and make a ton of money.
I’m not concerned that a thug will read this and go buy some orange paint. They can’t read.
Uh oh. They may have figured it out in reverse. Instead of painting a real gun orange, they’re painting toy guns black. Like I said, dumb as hell.
If this had been done and implimented in the 20’s and 30’s there would have been no Dillinger, Alvin Karpis, Baby-face Nelson, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, .
PROGRESS is definitely being made in crime control.
Somewhere I read two sides of that. One was that some criminals were taking a black marker and covering up the orange tip. The other was that they were coloring the tip of a real gun with an orange marker.
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