Maybe it's just me . . .

[AndyS]

These two guns are what police to use in training.




This is a gun marketed by a popular manufacturer.


As are these. All real guns.
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These, on the other hand are non lethal bb guns marketed by toy makers and the likes of Daisy.
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Am I the only one that sees a problem here? Police are conditioned to see blue guns as harmless but gun makers provide blue guns to the public?

Shouldn't toys look like toys and guns look like guns to reduce the confusion out on the street?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Absolutely right. Toys should not look like real guns, EVER. n/t

[wnylib]

5. And real guns should never look like toys.

Not only confusing to police, but dangerous to children.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/13/lego-gun-glock-controversy/

[YoshidaYui]

7. Why does that look like a Lego?

Why does that look like a Lego? It’s fucking insane!

[11 Bravo]

14. It's part of their "Guns Are Fun!" campaign.

[captain queeg]

3. My son plays airsoft. It's kind of like paintball; they have teams that battle

Their guns look exactly like the real thing except the very end of the barrel is a bright color. I don’t think that’s enough, especially around trigger happy cops I always tell him to keep the guns in a box until they arrive at the arena, and keep them out of view. It’s getting to be a popular sport and I’m just waiting for some kid to get shot or killed.

[AndyS]

4. It happens far too often . . .

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-peyton-ham-maryland-trooper-kills-teen-who-had-airsoft-gun-20210414-cgxttjfjmvdxxidqcwwawxx4km-story.html
Maryland teen carrying airsoft gun fatally shot by state trooper: police

[YoshidaYui]

6. Making them so they display

Cool colors, is insane. What’s next Purple and yellow bullets?

[Ponietz]

12. Prediction:

The purple ones will be lilac scented and the yellow will smell like lemons.

[KS Toronado]

8. I thought we once required all toy guns to have bright orange paint

at the end of the barrel. Or did reQublicans get rid of that when tfg was in office?

[AndyS]

11. Technically a bb gun is not a toy. And to be honest they are in a kind of grey area.

The ones that look like real pistols are not lethal, not designed to be lethal and cannot be made lethal. There are air guns that are most definitely designed for hunting even big game. None of them are covered under the background check system. I'm of the opinion that the non lethal 'fun' guns be classed as toys and be made to look like toys and that gun manufacturers should be able to make real guns that appear to be toys.

Airsoft guns are bb guns that fire plastic balls instead of steel. They must have a small orange tip on the barrel.

It's confusing which is the whole point of my post.

[11 Bravo]

15. You could put an eye out with one of those things!

[Caliman73]

9. Gun culture can be very strange, and off putting.

It is dangerous and confusing to modify firearms or to manufacture them so that they appear to be toys.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

10. Yeah, right...

Except that the cops can't tell a blow dryer from a gun, an iPhone from a gun, a sleeping black woman from a gun ad nauseum...

[Dan]

13. Maybe the gun manufacturers are designing the guns like this

To give police cover for when they kill our kids.

[Devil Child]

16. IMO, no.

I see nothing wrong with any of the items pictured in the OP.

[rickyhall]

17. My daughter has a pink AR-15 real gun.

And she's crazy enough to use it. She scares me when almost nothing scares me.

[IcyPeas]

18. pink Hello Kitty AR-15 -- utterly disgusting