Painted Guns

Submitted by MostlyGenius on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 13:14

Guns Painted Like Toys

I agree with Rustmeister in that painting guns to look like toys is kind of stupid, but that is because I don't want a gun that looks like a toy. I find it tacky. That is not to say that .22LR cricket rifle with a pink stock is bad thing for teaching your daughter to shoot with. I have met a lot of women that like the idea of pink or purple handgun. The handgun makes them feel capable and the color makes them feel feminine.

I don't believe it is a threat to law enforcement, or any of the other noise that surrounds this issue. The circumstances dictate whether or not a police officer is going to shoot. If you quick-draw a cell phone a the wrong time you are going to get shot, because your behavior consistent with being a threat. Little kids play cops and robbers toy guns (even black ones) don't look like threats, unless they are doing it at 3AM in a back alley where the real criminals are eluding the police. By the same token an adult running from the scene of a crime with a rifle painted like hello kitty is still going to look like a threat.

Most importantly why on earth would this get raised to the level of a law? How many people police or otherwise have ever been killed because of they believed that the real gun was a toy or that the toy was real? What lives is this law actually saving.

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Painted Guns
Sat, 03/29/2008 - 19:54 — Anonymous

I totally disagree with Rustmeister. I do not military style weapons but it is OK if others want them. This is too much like aesthetic question an emotional reaction on how could you possibly like a gun that is purple?

I left this comment at Rustmeister

Hunters grew up with bolt action wooden stock rifles and think military style black plastic is ugly and Zumbo said they looked like terrorists rifles. He got shouted down over that opinion.
Your objection sounds like a Zumbo type opinion.

Men like their black or blued guns. Women on the other hand like their guns in colors. Some manufactures trying to appeal to a different market tried color and the husbamds hated it and theirs wives like it.

Cell phones used to come in only black, now crazy colors and people personalize them.

Their is no logical reason a rifle can not be personalized to a color scheme. If a father has a daughter and wants to interest her in rifle shooting and she wants on Hello Kitty or Barney purple than why not? The color does not make a firearm deadly or not.

When I was a child all our toy guns came in black. My brothers had Thompson machine guns in black and used to sit in the back of the station wagon and shoot out the rear window at others cars.
No one freaked out . If the gun was black, in the hand of a child it was obviously a toy.

Now based on the logic of Nassau County criminals can spray paint real guns with orange Krylon day glow paint and disguise real guns as toys. Should we now ban all spray paints?

If a criminal uses a weapon or a toy to hold up someone then assume the criminal should be stopped.

We want to turn people attitudes about guns instead of thinking they are big scary things and only a criminal would have a gun, to it is normal for a 13 year old to take a 22 rifle out to shoot. People used to ride on the subways in New York city with longarms and no one thought they were criminals.

Instead of using the gun as a shortcut to determine criminality let the criminals actions do that and their is no confusion.

I hope I gave a few reasons why it is fine for Lauer to sell their Durocoat to customers to peronalize their weapons

I guess I wasn't clear
Sat, 03/29/2008 - 20:43 — MostlyGenius

I agree with Rustmeister in saying that a pink AR15 is lame. If you want one knock yourself out. I don't care if you want camo, hello kitty, or pictures of bunnies on it. It doesn't matter to me at all. I think a prohibition against coloring a gun is stupid, and the reasons given for the prohibition are even stupider.