http://imgur.com/a/u9FQt

Love it.

You know what the worst part about that is?

It's an AR.

Kind of looks like a toy, a lot of kids might think the same.

eelj wrote:Kind of looks like a toy, a lot of kids might think the same.

Not if it doesn't have an orange muzzle:


Xela

If you come to visit on the way to Portland, You have to leave all your spray cans at the top of the in drive.

I'm strangely turned on. Been mulling a paint job for my .22 AR. I think it's gonna be disco.

Xela wrote:

eelj wrote:Kind of looks like a toy, a lot of kids might think the same.

Not if it doesn't have an orange muzzle:

Xela

I don't know if that was meant to be tougue-in-cheek or not, Xela, but I share eelj's concern. Considering how often a lapse in common sense turns a gun that look like a gun into a tragedy waiting to happen, I see technicolor weapons as having an even greater dangerous potential.

I hope no one too young to know the difference ever lays eyes on this thing,

Ultravox wrote:http://imgur.com/a/u9FQt

let alone be within reach of it.

Edit: I just showed that to my 18 year old daughter. "Cool paint ball gun." When I told her it was a real AR, she was appalled. "That's disrespectful. Dangerous weapons should look dangerous."

I'm going the other way with that.

Paint ball guns ARE also dangerous. I know a woman who damn near had to go to the hospital when the person walking next to her on the field negligently loosed a paint ball into her right breast at less than 12 inches distance. Needless to say, she was done - Dee Oh Enn Eee done - for the weekend without ever having actually gotten to play.

There's a reason we wear face masks on the field. Paint balls are projectiles travelling at possibly deadly feet per second if they hit in a particularly vulnerable spot. Like the guy I know who left the field with a concussion because he managed to belly crawl undetected to a defended position. When he popped up and went "DIE!" the flash reaction got him hit across the mask, unshielded temple and at least three hits on the top of his head at under five feet range.

So I think it's less of an issue about what things look like, than the idea that people can even discern a dangerous weapon from a toy weapon just on looks. If it's shaped like a weapon, then it's considered possibly dangerous until determined to be something that only throws nerf darts.

SwampGrouch wrote:

Xela wrote:

eelj wrote:Kind of looks like a toy, a lot of kids might think the same.

Not if it doesn't have an orange muzzle:

Xela

I don't know if that was meant to be tougue-in-cheek or not, Xela, but I share eelj's concern. Considering how often a lapse in common sense turns a gun that look like a gun into a tragedy waiting to happen, I see technicolor weapons as having an even greater dangerous potential.

I hope no one too young to know the difference ever lays eyes on this thing,

Ultravox wrote:http://imgur.com/a/u9FQt

let alone be within reach of it.

Edit: I just showed that to my 18 year old daughter. "Cool paint ball gun." When I told her it was a real AR, she was appalled. "That's disrespectful. Dangerous weapons should look dangerous."

Definately tongue in cheek. Didn't mean to be dismissive of eelj's opinion.

However, and more to the point of your daughter. I think it's about the culture, and not about what colors or physical aspect a firearm has, should have, our ought to have.

X

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