Real Gun resembling a Lego toy sparks backlash in US
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Is it any worse than this which looks like a supersoaker ?
There's even Hello Kitty AR15's and one modded into a unicorn, if kids get hold of them to "play" with then it says more about the parents lack of parenting than it does about the gun looking like a toy
There's even Hello Kitty AR15's and one modded into a unicorn, if kids get hold of them to "play" with then it says more about the parents lack of parenting than it does about the gun looking like a toy
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The million dollar question is - can it be printed using a 3D printer? 
Is it any worse than this which looks like a supersoaker ?
There's even Hello Kitty AR15's and one modded into a unicorn, if kids get hold of them to "play" with then it says more about the parents lack of parenting than it does about the gun looking like a toy
It could be unicorn flavoured and birthday party shaped for all america really cares.
Just sheer coincidence that one degenerate company making guns look like toys crossed a much larger and litigious company so for a brief moment it looked like something morally right was happening.
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For sure, it's Lego's cease & desist that put the stops on selling the gun, not any morality lol
Got to say I'm curious about whether Lego actually have a leg to stand on if the company did decide to invest however many millions of dollars are required to fight the lego legal team... Unless it actually says 'lego' it looks like a similar situation to Aldi knockoffs vs well known brands - you know what it's meant to look like, but doesn't actually break any laws...
In any case it is obviously a terrible idea to make a functioning pistol that looks like a toy, wtf were they thinking. Although if it was intended as a viral marketing campaign it has probably worked though - I imagine Culper Precision might be the most well known firearm modders in the USA now after this story!
In any case it is obviously a terrible idea to make a functioning pistol that looks like a toy, wtf were they thinking. Although if it was intended as a viral marketing campaign it has probably worked though - I imagine Culper Precision might be the most well known firearm modders in the USA now after this story!
the more important question is can you get the gear needed to make bullets without raising suspicion.The million dollar question is - can it be printed using a 3D printer?
I always found it weird guns were fine if they had the firing pin filed off, but surely you could just make a firing pin really easily anyway or weld a point back on it
dood it's a real gun that looks like lego.
not a lego gun that shoots bricks or something
yeah and? It’s America…nothing surprises me about them and guns.
There's also the problem of getting shot by the police when you really are holding a super soaker, because of a proliferation of real guns looking like toys.Is it any worse than this which looks like a supersoaker ?
There's even Hello Kitty AR15's and one modded into a unicorn, if kids get hold of them to "play" with then it says more about the parents lack of parenting than it does about the gun looking like a toy
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The U.K. rules for deactivating firearms are much more stringent these days, but it’s not impossible for someone with a small machine shop and some knowledge to make parts to bring firearms deactivated under the pre 1997 regulations back into operation.
Aye IIRC modern deactivation of weapons requires things like plugging the barrel, performing cuts on vital parts and welding the action.
I think with revolvers it includes something like making the revolving chamber unable to hold the ammunition/get a pressure seal (and making it so you can't open it so you can't replace it), a welded pin through the barrel and removing/filing down the firing pin. Other types of guns I think can require things like holes being drilled in addition to those sorts of measures.
It's practically easier to make a gun from scratch* than reverse some of the changes that are required these days.
From the point of view of someone who likes the history of some of the guns it's a shame because you're effectively destroying them, but from a safety point of view you're also making sure that if they're lost/stolen they can never really be put back into use (I think the old deactivation rules relied a lot on the owner being honest and the gun never falling into the wrong hands).
*Things like revolvers are quite simple designs, and IIRC in WW2 there were plans drawn up and distributed specifically so resistance groups could turn out semi reliable guns quickly in the average machine shop of the time using standard stock materials.
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There were. The Forgotten Weapons channel has covered some in detail. They were at best mediocre, of course, but they were functional. IIRC they were called "garage guns" in the UK because the idea was that any garage (in the sense of a car repair/maintainence business) could make them. There was quite a push on developing them in the aftermath of Dunkirk, which caused a severe shortage of guns because most of them were left behind. There were concerns about a possible German invasion of Britain at the time and the severe shortage of guns was an issue. There were also concerns that bombing would make it impractical to have gun making factories in Britain. So guns that could be quickly produced in large quantities in a very distributed way were seen as a sensible and potentially necessary development.
EDIT: Here's an article on probably the most famous one:
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/12/09/the-venerable-sten-britains-10-dollar-submachine-gun/