Brickbat: Gun Control

New York City's Consumer Affairs office fined Jamal Ahmad $30,000 after they found a 99 cent store he owned carried toy sheriff's sets with fake handguns. Although the guns had bright orange tips, officials say they violate a city ordinance barring the sale of realistic-looking toy guns.

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[Auric Demonocles]

... You guys are idiots. Why do people think everyone wants to go to New York?

[Suki]

Yet another example of the vast intelligence that inhabits NYC.

[Alack]

Maybe they watched Airheads the other day and got spooked about what the rabble might accomplish with some toy guns and chutzpah?

[o3]

saw a sign on the subway which read:
"in NY, its illegal to paint a toy gun to look real & illegal to paint a real gun to look like a toy"

[I Blame Videogames!]

OK, so I better not take the Ruger Police Service Six .357 with the orange front blade to NYC. Got it.

[Tim]

So the people who are willing to do bad things with a gun, breaking lots of felonies will obey this one...got it.

[sarcasmic]

Now you understand how gun free zones make us safe!

[o3]

it was a public service ad intended for those who read them.

remember tim, ignorance of the law...

[R C Dean]

So, the city says (a) you cannot sell a realistic-looking toy gun, and (b) that painting an orange tip on a real gun is not allowed because it makes it look like an unrealistic-looking toy gun.

Wouldn't that mean that a toy gun with an orange tip is unrealistic-looking?

[shrike]

A.B.U.

[White Indian]

Some days you take the 9/11 Today Show footage in a different light.

[Fluffy]

Woo hoo!

I just attempted to spoof post as White Indian, and a third-party spam filter prevented me from doing so.

[sloopyinca]

OK now that jsut does not make any sense at all to me dude, none,

[CoyoteBlue]

I feel safer now.

[sloopyinca]

OK now that jsut does not make any sense at all to me dude, none,

[Anonymous Coward]

The rule is designed to prevent cops from mistaking the toys for the real thing ? and shooting an innocent kid ? and to thwart criminals from using them to commit crimes.

Don't you just get a thrill up your leg about how the first intent of a law is to restrain the people from buying toy guns, rather than restraining the police from willfully shooting the people?

[P Brooks]

Lives were saved by this, you monsters!

[P Brooks]

rather than restraining the police from willfully shooting the people?

Dude- split second decisions! How can you be sure that little kid with the six-shooter isn't a grizzled criminal mastermind? I saw it on Bugs Bunny, so you know it's just a matter of time.

[Auric Demonocles]

and to thwart criminals from using them to commit crimes.

We better outlaw staplers too. And Batman Begins.

[sarcasmic]

Then, they said, the prior manager failed to inform store owner Jamal Ahmed that a city inspector had written up the shop.

Because of that failure, Ahmed missed a hearing...

There's the root of it. He missed a hearing. He disrespected authority. For that he will pay.

[Cyto]

Or his former manager missed a payment.

Just sayin'.....

[Old Mexican]

Although the guns had bright orange tips, officials say they violate a city ordinance barring the sale of realistic-looking toy guns.

Officials know who they hire and officials know their hirees cannot distinguish between a real gun and a pop-gun, thanks to the Wise Latina and people of her ilk.

[Res Publica Americana]

"... New York..."

That's all I needed to hear, and I stopped reading.

Eastern Mississippi trailer park, or NYC? Eastern Mississippi trailer park, every fucking time.

Fuck New York.

[Paul]

But a Consumer Affairs spokeswoman countered, "Realistic-looking imitation guns are illegal and dangerous, and just last week, a 15-year-old in Texas was killed while holding one of these guns."

Sounds like the cop the 15-year-old was standing next to was the dangerous element in this story.

[Zeb]

How did we ever survive all those years when every child had a toy gun which didn't even make any attempt to look fake? What the fuck is wrong with people?