UK LEGALLY MODIFIED TOY GUN.
"This replica gun contains the colored markings required by law, including a permanently attached orange plug."
.. Beginning in 1988, cap guns and other toy guns in the United States must be manufactured with a bright orange, red, or yellow tip placed over the "muzzle" of the cap gun, or with the entire gun made in these or other bright colours. Laws requiring these markings were made because of incidents where children and teenagers were killed by police officers who mistook cap guns for real guns. While these incidents were rare, lawmakers decided that toy guns must be marked so they cannot be mistaken for real guns.
Prison Orange for SAFE?
However in the UK The Firearms Act now states - in part that:
3.1 A toy firearm shall be distinguishable from a real firearm or a realistic imitation firearm
as defined above.
3.2 The previous codes of practice for toy firearms specified a bright orange or red plug. The Violent Crime
Reduction Act (together with the Violent Crime Reduction Act (Realistic Imitation Firearms) Regulations
2007) requires that further measures must be taken to enable imitation firearms to be distinguished from
real firearms.
Therefore a toy firearm may either: -
3.2.1 be constructed entirely of transparent materials which permit unmistakable observation of the complete
contents of the device, or
3.2.2 be coloured in bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, bright blue, bright pink or bright
purple either singly or as the principal colour in combination with the other colours in any pattern, or
3.2.3 be a miniature toy firearm
– that is to say less than 38mm in height and 70mm in length, (excluding any gun stock measurement).
3.2.4 be a toy firearm the appearance of which would tend to identify it as having a design and
mechanism of a sort first dating from before the year 1870.
3.2.5 be clearly identifiable as a toy by its general appearance or shape not having similarities with real
firearms e.g. futuristic weapons, “ray guns” and similar.
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.. So if it's orange it's SAFE ..
Here in NZ - KIWI GUN BLOG are chasing the police to state if they are boosting their reported gun crime numbers by including "imitation" guns such as bananas or broom handles in their reported statistics. - It seems that indeed police are adding this bullshit to boost their crime figures .. and are also still refusing to properly answer questions. LINK:
It seems possible that in NZ any object can be counted as a gun for the police criminal records whether or not it is colored orange.
- How long will it be before this orange lark leads towards drug dealers & nutters coloring their guns fluro to stop hesitant cops from firing at them?
- Meanwhile, in UK .. another homeless worker has frozen to death (outside London's Westminster Palace) - adding one more malnourished death to the almost 600 homeless "dosser" deaths per annum that are officially recorded for the previous year.
Get your barrel tape here.
The Lunatics have taken over the asylums in Government.
Marty K.
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