Toy gun ban in NY

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These are just some guns colored to look like toys, or at least with the side effect of looking like toys.

To be fair, I think it far more likely that somebody buys a $40 airsoft gun and removes the tip versus getting a hold of a real gun and then spending the time to make it look like a toy, when usually the intimidation and respect of a real gun (or at least good imitation) is the desired effect.
 
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Well it's just as Eric holder said, to brainwash the gun culture away.

They want to erase guns as being acceptable away from New Yorkers in hopes that they will migrate away from there as unwitting missionaries to the cause.

Or it's just a case of government deciding what's good for you.
 
I left NY in 81 when I enlisted in the Army and never looked back. My father and brother keep begging me to move back to join the family business at 5x the salary I'm making now. Not no but HELL NO
 
....There is some logic to life like guns being used in robberies or in tragic accidents.
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When I was a kid (back in the kerosene lantern/horse-drawn cart days), it was inconceivable that literal
children would be involved in everyday murder of themselves and other adults. Kids could play with toy
guns (mostly lifelike SAA cap pistols) to their hearts' content and no one would look twice.

That is no longer that case. Drugs, Gangs and "The Projects" have introduced a level of adolescent
violence/murder that would have been unimaginable in my youth.

In this case, NY's push to get rid of the look-alike "toys" has no small merit.
 
Personally this feels more like them trying to stop incidents of cops accidentally shooting kids with toy guns. It's happened a few times in NY. Sometimes the kids (or adults) get the genius idea of trying to pass them off as real to rob or intimidate people.
 
I had a life like Beretta 92 electric water pistol. My daughter and I used to chase each other around the apartment complex with it.

Today, some denizen of the internet would probably take out his or her multicolored Taurus and shoot me.
 
Today, some denizen of the internet would probably take out his or her multicolored Taurus and shoot me.
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More likely they would take you picture and post it. Then, assuming you survived the SWAT raid, you could figure out how to get your daughter back from "protective" services. :(
 
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New York state prohibits the sale of black, blue, silver or aluminum toy guns. New York City requires that imitation guns be brightly colored.
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Because, of course, no criminal ever thought of buying a can of spray paint for his [probably stolen] firearm.

I don't have a good answer. Why are red tips required on the muzzles of airsofts but not on B guns? What good does a red muzzle do? It's supposed to be so a cop knows it's a toy. Any cop who has been in the academy longer than 5 minutes knows that kids routinely remove or black out the red tips, and goblins are smart enough to paint a red muzzle on a real gun to try to cause a cop to hesitate. So the entire concept is flawed from the git-go.
 
IIRC its even dafter than you think.I believe it's illegal to paint over the orange tip of a toy, but its not illegal to paint a real gun muzzle orange!
*sigh*:rolleyes:
 
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