New Pistol

[Aughnanure]

Saw this in the local store and I just had to have it.
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New price $A2.20

[Niner]

Just like James Bond.......only his didn't have the bright plastic thing coming out of the barrel to tell the bad guys that it is only plastic.

[Aughnanure]

Word is that some of the bad guys have those little bits of orange plastic to shove on the ends of real guns so that if confronted they can say it's only a toy; thus perhaps gaining a few crutial seconds.

[Niner]

Ok. If you say so.

[Aughnanure]

Further (and just a little gleefully) to the above:

Tucson Politics Policy & Issues..
Chris Woodard
Tucson Gun Rights Examiner.
Orange tipped toy guns.... A good idea gone bad.
March 5th, 2010 3:49 pm MT .Title 15: Commerce and Foreign Trade.
Part 1150 - Marking of toy, look-alike and imitation firearms.

Under ‘Preemption’ in a nutshell, Federal law supersedes state and local law. There are exceptions for theatrical purposes [Note: this is in America but there is probably some stupid law here also]
However, there are hundreds of ‘How To’ instructions on how to remove the required orange tip on a toy gun even though it is against federal law. Numerous forums, Youtube, Airsoft groups, the list is almost endless. So now we have children, running around waving real looking toy guns. When the police arrive, they may very well shoot first and ask questions later, especially if this toy gun is pointed in their direction..

To further add to the mix, a considerable amount of the criminal element are now painting the tips of their ‘Real firearms’ with an orange tip. [bold added]
It’s easy to understand their reasoning. Once again, Law Enforcement find themselves in a deeper hole. Ironically, if this criminal who has no criminal record and is allowed to own this firearm in the first place, there is no law preventing him from painting the tip of his real gun orange in the attempt to make it appear as a toy.

You would think that this would be the end. Not so.

We also have several so called law abiding citizens complete with Concealed Carry Permits who are also painting the tips of their firearms orange. The worst offender is an individual named Leonard Embody.

Embody carried his AK 47 pistol around Radnor Lake dressed in camouflage. While he apparently broke no laws, it appears this was done just for the shock value. When confronted by park rangers, detained, and ultimately released, Embody is now suing the Park Ranger giving the reason that he was detained longer than necessary for the ranger to determine whether or not he was committing a crime.

A copy of his “Court Complaint” which he himself published can be seen here.

And now he upset because the Sheriff will not grant him permission for a suppressor for his orange tipped AK 47. Once again, the documents he himself published here on TheHighRoad.us. Incidentally, to make matters even worse, he has painted his entire AK 47 pistol orange.

Embody is considerably different from the usual Internet Ninja. He actually goes out in public inviting confrontation with Law Enforcement. With his known 4 (four) encounters with LE, the damage Embody has done to the RKBA and Second Amendment causes cannot be calculated. A dork is a dork is a dork.

So, with all the problems caused by children, criminals, and idiotic legal gun owners, the next time you hear of an individual, child or not, in possession of either a toy or real gun being shot by Law Enforcement, don’t be surprised. The men and women of law enforcement, like ourselves, want to return home to their families at the end of the shift.

While “Orange Tips” appeared a good idea at the time of inception, it ultimately becomes another (toy) gun regulation that does not work. This sounds so familiar..... With all the problems with orange tips, one can speculate that the next law to emerge will make it illegal to paint the tip of a real gun orange. Of course, that will completely solve the problem in exactly the same way gun laws have solved the problems in the past.

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