Authorities Concerned About Rising Popularity Of Brightly-Painted Firearms

KTVU.com ^ | 01/31/2011

[Neil E. Wright]

MARTINEZ, Calif. -- Police were issuing a warning Monday night about a growing trend of guns being painted in vivid colors that make real firearms appear to be toys.

Authorities were concerned about the difficulty of telling the difference between these brightly colored real guns and fakes.

[Neil E. Wright]

The increasing violence and breakdown in society and social norms are a DIRECT result of 40+ years of socialist policy, particularly in the inner cities of the Republic. EVERY social problem facing the Republic today were CAUSED by marxist "social engineering".

Hey, leftists, welcome to the world YOU created. Hope you enjoy living in it!

America! It's about

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[Jack Hydrazine]

Actually the murder rate and other violent crimes are down.

Violent Crime Rate Down for third year, Left calls for Gun Control (article dated 24JAN2011)
http://politisite.com/2011/01/24/violent-crime-rate-down-for-third-year-left-calls-for-gun-control/

[Neil E. Wright]

And GUN and ammo sales are UP for the 3rd straight year! MORE guns, LESS crime! (well, except for LA, NYC, WashDC, Chicago, Detroit, etc., etc.)

REFUSE. RESIST. Do NOT Submit.
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[I see my hands]

I wonder if homosexual men feel the same way regarding the bakeries that make cakes in the shape of rear ends etc.

[Redcloak]

I wonder what the no-bright-guns-cuz-they-look-like-toys crowd would make of this.

[Niuhuru]

I bet this will result in more tweens screaming “from my cold dead hands” in the future.

[Persevero]

I guess cops should just shoot anyone holding something that looks like a gun, no matter what the color? That is if firearms makers are going to make, and Americans are going to buy, guns that are decorated like water pistols.

Or are we supposed to hold off for a closer look and sometimes go ahead and get killed, or let someone else get killed? Because we can’t tell if a gun is real or pretend?

You see a teen boy acting silly and pointing a green gun at a crowd. Is he a silly kid playing with a squirt gun, or a deranged kid about to shoot a bunch of people?

You see some young adults crawling around nearby bushes with realistic looking weapons. Plotting an invasion of your property? Or playing Airsoft?

I wouldn’t let my kids play Airsoft in our neighborhood. Some kids I knew got drawn on my police officers because the Airsofts look like real weapons. Drawn on! They could have been shot if they’d made a stupid move! Could I have blamed the cops in this case?

Myself, I am for guns looking like guns and toys looking like toys. I don’t know what I’d do if a serious looking adult pulled what looked like a toy gun on me. Should I assume it is a toy? Or shoot him?

I do not have an answer for this, but to say, I think there is a problem here.

[NorthStarStateConservative]

The liberties that would be lost attacking this bill are greater than the liberties that would be gained from allowing these p8nt schemes. They might take our airsoft guns from our warm, cheeto encrusted sticky hands.

[Smokin' Joe]

I'd wager this would be less of a problem if multiple offenders didn't walk with a plea bargain or served their full time.

It was only a question of how long it would take the criminal element to use this strategy (painting real guns to look like toys), not a question of 'if' they would.

[paul51]

my firearms are not for show. If I have to clear a holster, there won’t be any doubt it’s real

[PeteCat]

So what they gonna do? Outlaw THIS???

http://mrcompletely.blogspot.com/2005/08/barbie-15.html

[Lancey Howard]

That's pretty cool!
I think I would like a Glock with Gene Shalit's face on it.

[PeteCat]

For the guys -

http://ingunowners.com/forums/long_guns/8018-dewalt_ar15_carbine_nail_gun.html

http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/origins-myth-m-16-vs-page10-t27984.html

[PeteCat]

Here’s another one -

http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15-—evil-black-rifle-meets-cute-and.aspx

I need a(nother) beer. My eyes hurt.

[LibWhacker]

And then there were the good old days:

[PLMerite]

I’ve heard of bundt cakes. Now you’re tell me there are “butt cakes?”

[skr]

I’ve always thought that toy guns that look like real ones weren’t a good idea.

[Right Wing Assault]

Years ago I thought the bad guys would do this, but they were a bit slow catching on.

[mom4melody]

I have a pink 9mm.

[jboot]

When I was a kid just a short few decades ago, we used to play army with real pellet guns and .22s. And real equipment...helmets, cartridge belts, bayonets, boots, you name it. It was the golden age of Army surplus. We were trained how to use guns (by our dads-the most important component of any boy's childhood) and we weren't knuckleheads, so no one ever got hurt. We never had a "run-in" with the cops, and to be honest, it never even entered our minds that we might. We weren't breaking any laws.

There is a problem here, and it is not with guns, or "colored" guns or toy guns.