Real guns painted to look like toys - and a plan to battle them
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Toy guns are often a matter of controversy for parents. As a kid I had toy guns, but at some point my father decided that wasn’t a good idea. He didn’t want my youngest brother, 15 years my junior, to play with toy guns and banned them from the house. Of course my youngest brother then turned sticks and anything else he could get his hands on into toy guns.After some children were shot by police because they had wielded realistic-looking toys, toy-gun makers were required to make their products readily distinguishable from the real thing through the use of bright colors. One gun manufacturer, though, seems to be intent on blurring that line with its real guns that come in bright colors. Lauer Custom Weaponry, which ran into trouble in New York City in 2006 with its guns that looked like toys, is now upping the ante with a line of paints it calls ‘The Bloomberg Collection” that can be used to disguise guns.The colors by the way, are named for the city’s five boroughs: Manhattan red, Bronx rose, Brooklyn blue, Queens green and Staten Island orange.Two New York state legislators are proposing a law to counter the company. Assemblymen Mike Spano and Joseph Lentol D-Brooklyn want to make it against the law to attempt to disguise guns. The proposal would make it a class D felony to conceal the original color or surface of a real gun.What do you think?
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Len, I think that given that police officers have to react in a split second in gun situations and rely heavily on visual clues, any company or parent has to be crazy to even consider placing any child or adult in a situation that could result in getting them killed. So much of what’s happening is a no-brainer it keeps making me wonder where the heck common sense has gone, why is this even an issue? For the record I am for citizen’s rights to carry own weapons and protect their homes.
Gina,
Guns in designer colors does seem like an irresponsible thing to do. People really need guns that match their clothes?
Len, isn’t it mind-boggling the contradictions in our society. WE have the Patriot Act, and Homeland security concerned about illegal immigrations and crime, national security, strip searching people getting on planes and we make pretty guns that can be concealed – huh? I always feel like I’m missing something – oh yes, I keep forgetting about the money factor and corporate greed?