States Seek to Pass Bills Cracking Down on Fake Firearms

[exceltoexcel]

Maybe we should all paint the tips of our guns orange so we don't accidently get shot by the dickenson city police department

[Pector55]

Originally Posted by Dredly

Maybe I misread the article... I didn't see anything about banning anything, just assigning charges to using a non-real firearm replica

Yeah, that's what I read and my response was in line with this thinking. It went in a bit of a different direction after that.

[Severe]

Back when I was a kid it was normal to go around the street playing cops and robbers while the real thing was happening around the corner. The difference then was the toy guns looked more like toys, at least the ones I had, with flashing lights and stuff. Now days, these airsoft guns look unbelievably real. Once I was at my nephew's looking for one of my game CD's and found an airsoft Taurus 1911. I have to say my heart dropped for a second at first glance as it was under his bed and couldn't see it well. It had are removable clip and slide when back, he also colored the tip black, I had no idea they made em like that. I immediately sat down with him and explained to him how a situation like that can go horribly wrong. He then agreed and I broke the toy and trashed it. My point is that good parenting is essential in a case like this, hell it will solve most of our probs to begin with but for me, my mother would never had let me buy or have anything like that giving the area I lived around. Yeah i know Mr. Obvious. As far as grown men having toy guns brandishing them around like fools, a good shoot in the leg will fix that.

[widearea]

Originally Posted by Philadelphia

Yeah. So?

It can break off too.

Are those reasons the gov't should be involved in banning certain toys?

The picture in the article conveniently cut off the top half of the gun....I guess we will never know if Rep DeBerry Dem...is holding something with a big goofy orange tip....