Posted on 06/10/2015 6:21:13 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Calls for a ban on toy guns have been renewed after a frightening photograph of a boy carrying a replica AK-47 assault rifle just metres from the site of the Sydney Siege surfaced.
The child, who looks to be under 10 years old, is seen holding the gun - with a magazine attached - in his hands with his finger poised over the trigger, The Daily Telegraph reported.
A man is seen walking beside him pushing a pram with a younger child sitting in it.
The picture has sparked Police Association of NSW president Scott Weber to question why toy guns are available for purchase while Australia is on high terror alert.
He said the photo highlighted the 'realistic nature of toy guns' and their ability to cause 'mass hysteria' in public areas.
'It's extremely scary and terrifying not to police but the community,' Mr Weber told Daily Mail Australia.
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The only hysteria I am seeing is from Police Association of NSW president Scott Weber.
Pansies frightened by 10 year olds with toys.
The PC world gone amok.
When I was in the 5th grade around 1957 the local dime store got in some Luger water pistols which from any distance looked just like the real thing.
They looked so good that we all had to have one. Within a week we were all running around during recess, shooting each other. No one even noticed or cared.
you didn’t all know at the time that you needed Ritalin and were all severely emotionally disturbed and future serial killers. all of you. And your parents were complicit. And the local dime store owner /s
A lot of hysteria about the gun, NO discussion of the deadly ideology behind the attack:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Haron_Monis
Monis promoted himself as an Iranian intelligence official, a political activist, a spiritual healer and expert in black magic, an outlaw bikie and a Muslim cleric.
My children have been going to the range since they were in grade school but I won’t let them go out of the yard with realistic looking gun toys.
Yep. And if the real-deal cops had shown up for some unrelated reason, no one would have dreamed of pointing one at him. You could point toys at your friends, within the context of play. Outside of that context, you were respectful of others, especially any adult.
I bought an especially-realistic looking toy rifle as a youngster- wood stock and metal action and barrel. Took it out of it’s packaging and carried it at sling-arms all the way through San Rafael in about 1969 or 70. The idiots were starting to colonize the place then, so I got a couple of startled looks. Mostly it was old Marin, and nobody cared.
Even if it had been real (it was obviously undersized) I wasn’t menacing anyone with it. I wasn’t a cause for concern.
I miss common sense and critical thinking.
That’s probably smart. Some cop might just shoot your kids.
You took fake Luger pistols. In 1965, I took a double barrel shotgun to high school to custom fit a new stock and foregrip to it that I made in woodshop. I didnt have a case for it and walked right down the halls of Thomas Jefferson High School In Dallas holding it in my teenage hands, and no one called the SWAT team. Still have the shotgun.
This is my Daughter taken around 25 years ago. We were shooting at my parents place in Florida. It is a real one but no one cares about that either. You can do about anything you want around here an no one will bother you. Actually we were in the middle of nowhere.
And I think that's a perfectly sensible choice to make especially in particular areas - but this particular gun, even if it is coloured to look like an AK-47 is far too small for anybody to realistically think it's anything other than a toy.
My eldest son had a toy AK-47 in the late 1980s or early 1990s when he was about 13 that I told him he wasn't allowed to take out to the bush when he and his friends played soldiers precisely because it was just large enough that a police officer in a hurry might not have been sure, and he was just about big enough that the possibility it was real is one I could not expect a cop to ignore. I don't think a cop back then would have been likely to be fooled, but the chance was there. But at ten, with a much smaller toy, it would not worry me at all. And it doesn't seem to have worried most people in Martin Place when this kid was walking around (and believe me, people would be jumpy around there, and a lot of people would not be easily able to tell a fake from a real gun if there was any room for doubt).
I’m sorry... Wasn’t this post about guns? There’s no gun in your reply, now is there?!
The toy guns we played with as kids would have today’s liberals wetting their pants.
And, you should NOT shoot at your parents place... they will write you out of their will.
Oh yeah!!!!
Fanner 50 was a great toy gun and holster set...Most realistic I’ve ever seen...
From the picture, that would’ve been a miniature AK-47...Look how small it is....
She was my Parents youngest Grandchild and she could do no wrong. Actually she never did do any that I am aware of.
It was a cold December day in North West Florida, cold enough that her face is a bit blue. We had been wearing ear and eye protection and she is just posing.
I still remember us firing a High Standard Sentinel .22 revolver along with the Colt H-Bar. That day. Unfortunately they live in Oklahoma and I don’t get to see my Grandchildren all that often.
The last time they were here, her son really took to one of my springer air rifles. I gave it to him. When he gets a bit heavier I will give him an RWS model 48 side cocker. I haven’t got his Sister interested in guns yet. Their Father likes guns although he was not around them as a kid. I think if I have time I will get him to be a shooter too.
All of them will be safe shooters if I have any say.
I'm going to have to get my daughter to pose for a glamour “shoot” next time she goes plinking.
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