Former NYPD LEO: Water Pistols and Nerf Guns are Uncool So Turn Them In

Wait…say what? Kids can trade their toy guns for other toys…in a program aiming to change the culture around gun ownership, organizers say. Each child can receive one toy for whatever water pistols, Nerf guns and other toy guns they turn in. The new toys are being donated by Sean Acosta of Oyster Bay, a … Read more

And Now for Something Completely Stupid…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7jr0S1frWM

From across the pond comes this little bon mot: an ad intended to promote the idea that replica guns (here in the Colonies we call them “toys”) are being converted to real guns. Um . . . not so much. I don’t know if they know ANYTHING about guns in the Land of Boiled Food, but I’m telling you now that so-called “replica” guns are not real weapons that have been modified to be non-firing. Period. And if you tried to convert one to shoot, at best you’d end up with a one-shot-goodbye scenario where the entire thing would either not fire at all (most likely) or blow itself to bits.

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