Lost in the translation...
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OldePhart
Blackhawk
I'll just never understand the trend to make guns look like toys...you'd think the lawyers at these companies would be good for something and explain to the marketing departments the kind of liability lawsuits they're risking...
And you wonder why LEOs sometimes end up shooting a kid with a toy gun...it's gotten where often the toy guns look more real than the real guns... :mad:
John
And you wonder why LEOs sometimes end up shooting a kid with a toy gun...it's gotten where often the toy guns look more real than the real guns... :mad:
John
Pat-inCO
Hawkeye
Repeated for its accuracy!OldePhart said:
Pat-inCO
Hawkeye
Make it a 6-7/8" barrel and GIVE it to me, I might have one.9x19 said:
After all, you could sand down the surface of the crap and paint it black. :roll:
Jwp721
Single-Sixer
Pat-inCO said:
I have been wanting to comment on this trend to make guns look like toys for quite sometime. Pink, purple, cartoon applied cerakote coatings, etc. It makes me wonder if sometimes we aren't our own worst enemies.
Jwp721
Single-Sixer
^yeah I have seen that one before. Sorry but I just don't get it.
Quattroclick
Single-Sixer
It kind of makes me less annoyed about the 22 ammo shortage.
Yuck. Same goes for some of the Volquartsen pistols, built off of Mark III guns. Just terrible. The comment about the lawyers telling manufacturers to stop making them look like toys needs to be emphasized...
OldePhart
Blackhawk
I remember seeing a "documentary" several years ago - obviously produced by rabid anti-gun people - that showed where they "educated" several really young children (5,6,7 years old) about gun safety - don't touch - get an adult, etc. Then they left the room telling the kids that there were some toys they could play with in the toy box. We were all supposed to be shocked when the hidden cameras showed the kids finding the gun in the toy box and playing with it as if it were a toy instead of calling an adult, yada, yada.
I remember being furious at the stupidity of it - the obvious bias - if you tell a 6-year old kid that a box is full of toys then anything he finds in there is by definition a toy and not real - anybody who has raised kids knows that. And anybody who would leave a real gun in a kid's toy box deserves to be strung up and skinned alive...slowly.
In my mind, there is not one bit of difference between the "entrapment" displayed in that show and the utter stupidity of making guns look like toys. My oldest daughter's kids have all been raised around guns since they were very young - their father worked for a gun manufacturer for a while, even. They knew from a very early age not to touch a real gun without adult supervision. However, I'm thinking that when they were 5 or 6 years old that they would have seen the gun that started this thread and "known" that it wasn't a real gun by its appearance (and let's not even talk about that candy stripe monstrosity).
STUPID, STUPID, STUPID. Are you listening, Ruger? STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!
I at least hope that people who are parents, grandparents, or for any other reason might have young children around the house have more sense than to buy this kind of crap!
John
I remember being furious at the stupidity of it - the obvious bias - if you tell a 6-year old kid that a box is full of toys then anything he finds in there is by definition a toy and not real - anybody who has raised kids knows that. And anybody who would leave a real gun in a kid's toy box deserves to be strung up and skinned alive...slowly.
In my mind, there is not one bit of difference between the "entrapment" displayed in that show and the utter stupidity of making guns look like toys. My oldest daughter's kids have all been raised around guns since they were very young - their father worked for a gun manufacturer for a while, even. They knew from a very early age not to touch a real gun without adult supervision. However, I'm thinking that when they were 5 or 6 years old that they would have seen the gun that started this thread and "known" that it wasn't a real gun by its appearance (and let's not even talk about that candy stripe monstrosity).
STUPID, STUPID, STUPID. Are you listening, Ruger? STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!
I at least hope that people who are parents, grandparents, or for any other reason might have young children around the house have more sense than to buy this kind of crap!
John
collectormzornes
Blackhawk
If they would have made it a fluted barrel instead of a cut out one I would have like it better. I like the blue color but hate the cut outs.
SGW Gunsmith
Blackhawk
OldePhart said:
The above is the most sensible post in this lot. Kudos to its author. Some would wrongly put BLAME on the manufacturer for making pistols that have various degrees of "BLING" to attract buyers. So what? Mike Bloomberg, that idiot, has-been, mayor of New York shares some of the same mentality involved with the despondent soles from California who think its the buyers fault? because they buy these guns with different finishes. Ex-mayor Mike thinks that Dura-Coat should be banned from sales in the state of New York. Steve Lauer, owner & producer of Dura-Coat in Chippewa Falls, WI has thumbed his nose in the face of Bloomberg and continues to sell Dura-Coat in that state where responsible owners can coat their firearms with any color they choose. He even has named some of those color combinations after various burgs involved with the state of New York. :D
I often wonder about those people who think "safety" should be legislated into everyones life, especially when it involves firearms. Truth be known, most of those idiots are card carrying members of "Handgun Control" and are, poster children, for Sarah Brady. Safety starts between the ears and must be properly taught, in the same manner that the NRA teaches firearms safety.
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