“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.
I’m curious. Is there a law against painting the tip of a real firearm blaze orange? If not I’m sure there will be soon.
Please refer to BATFE as BATFE not ATF. They want to be one of the three-letter agencies like FBI or CIA. BATFE is insulting.
Hopefully one of our investigative news agencies will purchase one of these toy guns and do a documentary on converting it to a real machinegun thereby exposing this BS (sarcasm).
I don’t know what the stats are but it is not that uncommon - and is the reason for the orange tips I believe.
Of course it’s easy enough to paint the tip of a real firearm orange, and that happens sometimes too.
I’d bet more kids drown in a five gallon bucket than are shot by cops thinking their toy guns are real.