ATF seizes 30 toy guns, infuriating local business owner

Koin Local 6 ^ | 2/26/2010 | Alexis Del Cid

[Shimmer1]

And their little dog too!

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Better yet - Ban the ATF!”

One FReepers tagline...

” Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be a convenience store”

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Better yet - Ban the ATF!”

One FReepers tagline...

” Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be a convenience store”

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Better yet - Ban the ATF!”

One FReepers tagline...

” Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be a convenience store”

[Wonder Warthog]

"You think a plastic toy BB costs $400 a pop?"

I suspect folks like Bill Gates, John Travolta, Schwarzenegger, and a lot of others think just that. Some folks are willing to spend a lot of money on their toys. See any restored classic car as an example.

[stephenjohnbanker]

WTH?

[Wonder Warthog]

Here’s another example:

http://www.amazon.com/Lazer-Team-Deluxe-2-Player-System/dp/B00023C3ZUp

[screaminsunshine]

Abolish the uneeded ATF. It is a waste of money.

[Bad Jack Bauer]

You think a plastic toy BB costs $400 a pop?

So what if it did? You approve of a jackbooted government agents taking away a person's livelyhood because he has a market for such things? Look on eBay, you will find at least 100 different airsoft guns for sale at prices between $200-$400. And can you imagine the machining and metal working that has to be done to one of these things to get it fire live ammo and it will still be inferior to the real thing. The electric one can spit out about 300 BBs a second. OMG! How scary!

[Rebelbase]

Airsoft BB Claymore Mine W/Wireless Remote Control

With a little work these could be made into the real thing. Heads up to toy sellers, make sure the ones you order have orange tips.

[wita]

The BATFags aren’t supposed to do “smell tests”. They are supposed to follow the law.

In a round about way, that was my point as well.

From my post 15:

Frankly, the batfe is one more government entity looking for work, and as we have seen in the past, they will find “work” usually at the expense of the average citizen, and the “rights” of said citizen that come from God and are under siege by the batfe.

The second amendment did not arrive courtesy of the batfe.

[Fresh Wind]

Betcha a lot of those agents’ kids will have a great Christmas!

[Harrius Magnus]

IMO, this is a good smell test article. If you are not furious/outraged, then you just don’t “get it,” and will likely be abetting the coming totalitarian regime. You might as well be putting on lipstick and greasing up your old brown-eye. I’ll be purchasing more ammo, rations, etc.

[Red in Blue PA]

Wouldn’t it be nice if the ATF went after gangbangers instead of guns which **might** go bang after $10,000 worth of work?

[Bad Jack Bauer]

IMO, this is a good smell test article. If you are not furious/outraged, then you just don’t “get it,” and will likely be abetting the coming totalitarian regime. You might as well be putting on lipstick and greasing up your old brown-eye. I’ll be purchasing more ammo, rations, etc.

These are the poor misguided folks that always say, "There ought to be a law!" Or, "If you have nothing to hide." Know what? There SHOULD NOT be a law in place of common sense. And it matters not whether I have something to hide or not, the Gestapo of Barky's BATF or even our local sheriff do not have a right to look and see just because they get a wild hair up their ass.

[Bad Jack Bauer]

Wouldn’t it be nice if the ATF went after gangbangers instead of guns which **might** go bang after $10,000 worth of work?

Go after people who might shoot back? Like at Waco? That did not go very well for them.

[Above My Pay Grade]

“Well the blaze orange tip makes the gun safer.”

Yeah, it is not as if criminals could paint orange on the tips of their real guns to make them look like toys. /sarc

For that very reason, oranged tipped toy guns probably create more of a danger, as law enforcement officers might let their guard down and get themselves shot to death by real guns made to look like toys.

Does anyone have the stats on kids getting shot when their toy guns are mistaken for real ones. I can’t imagine this happens more than once in a blue moon. I have no doubt, at least a hundred times more are killed riding their bicycles.

[mo]

Too many of our employees have forgotten for whom they work....our bad.

[Blood of Tyrants]

These are made of metal. Probably zinc castings.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The realistic metal toy guns can cost even more.