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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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2. Waitasec, isn't an orange or red tip the symbol for 'toy gun'?

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Feb 5, 2015, 08:51 AM

Feb 2015

If you start putting orange things on real guns, aren't you then telling kids and police that any gun could be either real or a toy, and thus giving kinds more chances to play with a real gun, and cops more excuses to shoot kids with toys?

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'Less Lethal' Parachute Bullets Being Tested by Trigger-Happy Ferguson Police [View all] unhappycamper Feb 2015 OP

What a bunch of brainiacs. delrem Feb 2015 #1

Waitasec, isn't an orange or red tip the symbol for 'toy gun'? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2015 #2

So, you pump a full magazine of bullets through that plastic ball... DetlefK Feb 2015 #3