colored grip frames......what do you think?

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cjb

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EAA released guns with flashy colored frames a while back. Now I see Kel-Tech is doing the same with the P-32. I can just see the media pouncing on this. Kids see a blue or red gun and think it's a toy...... I don't like the colored frames,especially on a carry gun. O.K. guys, tell me what you think.
( please take it easy on me, it's just an opinion! )
Calvin
 
I don't care for them- but if someone wants a "designer" colored polymer frame gun, so what? Then again, I understand the concern for children mistaking them for toys. I think that if the pistols are properly stored, so what?

Erik
 
This looks like a toy:
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HK93A2 factory finished in desert camo
 
I thought the same thing when I first started seeing the hi-cap polymer-frame competition 1911's.
Some are even bright red or hot pink!
Yep, them guns look like toys.
But, as mentioned, smart folks don't leave any guns around where kids can get at them.
So, it shouldn't be an issue.

I guess the main reason I'd never buy one of those flashy guns is because I think they're just plain ugly-looking.

Guns are supposed to be steel and wood. I can live with rubber, and maybe some aluminum; but that's where I draw the line.
FWIW, -Kframe
 
The antis will jump on us no matter what we do. Yet I too am concerned not only about EAA's color offerings but also about their blatantly sexual advertisements. I know many female shooters that are insulted by this. Thus EAA is unwittingly gaining steam for the antis and the feminazis, a nasty combination is you ask me.

357SIG,

Now that's a rifle I wish I could own!

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So many pistols, so little money.
 
My question is whether or not pastel-colored guns would look more innocuoua and be harder to spot than black or stainless.

As for EAA, their ads were light on fact and big on tits and that steered me away from their offerings...

[This message has been edited by Oleg Volk (edited February 04, 2000).]
 
Greetings, Maybe the maker's of this flashy
plastic had the "limp wrister's" (no pun
intended) in mind, when they came up with the
awful idea. Idiot's like that don't need to
be in the weapons production business!!!

With Regards,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
 
I think that is just rediculous. tell me, what is the point of having the gun be anything but black? does it really matter what it looks like? i like the idea glock has with the blue and red frames for training purposes only. if a bad guy has a bright red gun then a cop will think its a toy and not shoot the guy. i don't think they should be allowed to make them.
 
Ala Dan

By "limp wristers" are you by chance refering to homosexuals? If so, I would hope you are not implying that they are not deserving of marketing attempts designed to solicit their business, nor their right to keep and bear arms.

I'm sure everyone out there has heard the phrase "in the closet", refering to homosexuals who hide and deny their sexual identity. This is done out of fear of confrontation, humiliation and social excommunication. Homosexuals know their interests do not mesh with those of main-stream society and out of fear of reprisal, some keep quiet, others shout from the rooftops.

I know many gun owners who beat their chests and shout from the rooftops about the second ammendment, but I know many more who keep quiet about their hobbies and interests out of fear of being labeled gun nuts, shunned because they may "go postal" and blamed for offering the youth of today the means to destroy themselves.

Whenever someone mentions saving the childern, it's either guns or homosexuals that come up. I would hope that we would not fan any fires, especially here.
 
I just checked the Bill of Rights. I didn't see a color restriction on the right to keep and bear arms. So I guess any color you want is OK! I've seen a lot of 1911 grips with naked women on them. Anyone who can tolerate them should be able to stand a colored frame.

I like EAA's ads, I just don't like their guns much. BE
 
Although i agree the Bill of Rights does not limit the colors allowed for arms. Lets use our heads people. There is a big difference between a naked lady on a grip and a red or blue gun. A child, even one who is educated on the proper behavior while handling firearms is not going to see a "toy" in the same light. The manufacturers and you and me as the consumers have an obligation not to give the Anti's ammo. I can see no meaningful purpose for a bright colored pistol that would more likely than not, be thought to be a toy. If a police officer sees a juvenile pointing a red gun at him and reacts as if it was a toy, it could cost him or her their life. On the flip side, if an officer treats a florecent orange gun as if it were real and shoots a minor for pointing it at them, then they would be viewed as a monster. We must not support these guns and the manufacturers must not market these guns or the Anti's will make it against the law to have any color other than black, chrome or wood on a firearm.

Lets use our heads and protect our own rights by not feeding them with ammo.
 
I personally don't like them. Partly for the reason that they are ugly, and partly that they look like something from mattel. Since they look like something from mattel, kids may think that they are something from mattel. Someone said that smart people store their guns in places where kids can't get them. That's true, insofar as it goes. First off, what smart person is going to have one of these fugly hot pink guns? personally, I don't really even care for stainless, let alone green and pink. Anyhow, the world is not entirely populated by smart people. If it was, there would still be fifteen kids alive in colorado that aren't because of stupidity, both their own in mistreating thier classmates, and the stupidity of their classmates in thinking that killing their tormentors would help anything. If the world were entirely populated with smart people, there would be no drug use. Nor would the second amendment be under attack.

~~~Mineralman.
 
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