To: Stew Padasso
I, my humble opinion, believe I agree with their ruling, at least for right now.
I am an avid gun lover, but feel that these "toy" guns are going to cause more trouble for those of us who want to retain our rights to bear arms. If I were a police officer, and had one of those toys pointed at me, I don't know if I would be able to tell, in a split second, whether or not it was real and to fire or not.
Let the kids play with the old fashioned, plastic looking cowboy six-shooters. At least they look enough like a gun to play with, yet are pretty recognizable by most people as being a toy.
3 posted on
12/23/2002 11:01:01 AM PST by
I_Publius
To: I_Publius
I agree. I played with toy guns as a kid growing up, but you could tell they were toys. Rifles were much smaller than real rifles and pistols looked like toys. These BB type guns look too real and stupid kids can get killed displaying them to cops. Maybe they should be another color, like blue. The military uses blue colors to indicate it is a training weapon.
To: I_Publius
That's a costly non firing replica gun. Any toy gun sold today has that red crap on the end of the barrel. I just bought one yesterday for my 2 year old hellion.
8 posted on
12/23/2002 11:11:32 AM PST by
wardaddy
To: I_Publius
I see your point. At the same time, when I was a kid, we would run around the neighborhood with bb guns and nobody raised a stink. We also were not out waving them at people.
I feel for the police, they are in a tough spot.
To: I_Publius
Now they have real guns that look like toys.
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The loaded clip weighs more then the rest of the piece. Anyway, not something I would own. Not enought juice.
56 posted on
12/23/2002 10:41:45 PM PST by
oyez
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