Real guns painted to look like toys – and a plan to battle them
- March
- 26
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?  Â
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