'SUPER FUN': A gun covered in Legos to look like a toy sets off a furor

[spanone]

FUCKING INSANITY...

About a week ago, a company in Utah that makes custom modifications to firearms debuted what it described as a fun new product: a kit that encases Glock handguns in red, yellow and blue Lego blocks, refashioning lethal weapons to look exactly like children’s toys.

“We have been building guns out of blocks for the last 30 years and wanted to flip the script to aggravate Mom,” Provo-based Culper Precision explained on its website. It went on to argue that personal defense is a right granted by God and that gun ownership is protected by the Constitution before getting to the most important reason the company was selling “BLOCK19,” as the design was named, for $549 to $765, depending on the specifics.

“There is a satisfaction that can ONLY be found in the shooting sports and this is just one small way to break the rhetoric from Anti-Gun folks and draw attention to the fact that the shooting sports are SUPER FUN!” the site proclaimed, exuding a bravado that would prove to be short-lived. “Here’s the thing. Guns are fun. Shooting is fun. 30 rounds full auto is fun.”

What’s not fun, and went unaddressed on the sales page, is the reality that thousands of children unintentionally shoot themselves or others each year because they find a gun and pull its trigger. Culper Precision’s customization arrived at a time when that problem is only getting worse and firearm sales are soaring. As word of the new product spread on the Internet late last week, the idea struck many people as so profoundly misguided that it would inevitably cost children their lives.

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[Hekate]

1. "To flip the script to aggravate Mom"? These people are sick as hell. nt

[spanone]

2. Words fail me.

[wcmagumba]

3. What's next, a grenade that looks like a furbee? Oscar the Grouch rocket launcher?...

It's just good fun for all...

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I can only hope Lego sues him into the ground.

[CrackityJones75]

9. It has already been done.

I don’t believe the guns are on the market anymore.

[Cattledog]

5. Lego needs to sue them.

[mopinko]

6. hope they have good lawyers.

lego dont play like that.

[Whiskeytide]

7. Wouldn't Lego have something to say about this? n/t

[Calista241]

10. probably not.

my nephews are fierce lego fanatics so i'm familiar with what they look like. At first glance this gun may look like a lego, but it's clearly not. the shape of pretty much everything is different. as long as they're not using the lego name, they probably don't run afoul of copyright law.

[ManiacJoe]

15. Oh, they did.

Lego's lawyers send the cease-and-desist letters, which have already been complied with.

[LiberatedUSA]

8. So this is where we are at.

Making a real gun look like a toy just to “own the libs”.

[magicarpet]

12. Yes own the Libs,.....

A child sees the Lego gun,... Plays with it and shoots a sibling in the head accidentally.

A Demo mom will be livid to see a 2nd Amendment gun nut make a gun to look like a child's toy.

Own the Libs,... Kill their kids,.... What kind of a bent mind does this shit ?

Same crowd that wants the gun manufacturers to be exempt from lawsuits and legal negligence.

[UpInArms]

11. Put this under

Worst Idea Ever

[BradAllison]

13. Someone has mommy issues

But tell us again how all these law abiding gun owners are just good people.

[sanatanadharma]

14. Now they are saying it outloud, an unfired gun is just no fun!

“There is a satisfaction that can ONLY be found in the shooting sports ... the shooting sports are SUPER FUN!”

Now we know they are seeking fun not security.
Guns cause insecurity (almost wrote "insanity&quot and that is just not fun.

Why are shooting sports fun? Fun arises in satisfying one's desires.

Many activities can be fun and many provide the satisfaction of expertise. Lots of activities are eye hand coordination exercises.

With a few exceptions (TV show knife and sword pig-splitting), other activities are not based upon the use of a machine designed to kill, whether we are considering dinner, thugs, trap, skeet, pigeons paint balls or political enemies.

Asking again, what is it about shooting sports that provides a satisfaction existent "ONLY" in shooting sports?