I know the downside, and I expect to get pummelled for thinking it even, but once thought if licensees used it to prevent Costco type mistakes by Police ...Brian Mobley wrote:My wife and I Joined the League City Citizens Police Academy about 4 years ago and this enables us to ride along with officers at night when my schedule permits. On one of these rides we stopped for dinner with a couple of other officers and I mentioned how easy it would be to put orange tape or orange paint on the end of a real gun. The response was not very nice, in fact they were not happy with me at all. It made me think about what I would do if someone points an orange tipped weapon at me or my family? I imagine there would be a whole lot of paper work to say the least.RPB wrote:Isn't that what orange electrical tape is for?paulhailes wrote:I'm glad everything turned out ok, and I hope they get a talking to if not more, it wouldn't be to hard to put an orange little ring around a real AR. Oh it's just a realistic toy, that goes bang.
Be safe out there.
Not suggesting it, bad guys with fake guns with orange tips paint the orange part black ...
Just sayin' I would hesitate a bit to pull a trigger with an orange tipped gun pointed at me, but not positive I'd lower my weapon. before I was positive that the orange tipped one was not a threat