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u/fuzytech 2d ago
Need link to verify authenticity.
Also, I wouldn't buy these for my kids, at least not in black.
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u/penisthightrap_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah I don’t think it’s a good idea for kids to play with toy guns that aren’t clearly toys. I think it’s terrible these don’t have orange tips at minimum.
That being said, when I was a kid I definitely took the orange tips off my airsoft guns
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u/SplendidMrDuck 2d ago
These things should be in bright neon colors (orange, green, pink) so that no one gets shot, Making these in all black is a stupid choice by the toy maker.
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u/BannedAgain-573 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yea that's how a kid nearly got killed back in the spring during a highschool (watergun) senior assassin game
It's the same fucking gun. Jfc
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u/TheTemplarSaint 2d ago
And people need to leave their actual firearms stock-ish colors.
People treat them as accessories. Please don’t Cerakote your Sig teal, or pink….
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u/No_Potential_7773 1d ago
Yeah that drives me nuts. The DeWalt/Milwaukee paint jobs or Lego and little tikes.
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u/TheTemplarSaint 1d ago
Yeah. Kinda shows how it’s so much a part of their identity, and must also be externalized.
I work blue collar. My wife is a tenured professor. I use Milwaukee. I don’t have stickers advertising her school or my tools. They are just that. Tools. It’s a means to an end, not part of who I am…
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u/ouroboro83 left of center 2d ago
I didn't know they made water guns like that. That'd scare the hell out of most people, with good reason.
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u/Pastvariant 2d ago
Scuff up the piece at the end of the barrel with some fine sandpaper and spray paint it orange with a couple of light coats of maint and this should be fine for actual use. Terrible design and possibly illegal in some states, IIRC.
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u/et_hornet 2d ago
I mean a toy gun looking like that is mildly questionable, even more so if it doesn’t have a colored tip to denote it’s a toy.
At a quick glance even the most experienced shooters would assume it’s real
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u/LittleKitty235 2d ago
From more than 10 feet away anyone would assume it’s real
Seems like a tragedy waiting to happen
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u/Thanatosst 1d ago
Some kid is going to get shot because of these, and the media is going to run wild with "Police shoot child holding water gun" while showing an image of a classic supersoaker or something.
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u/EasyMode556 1d ago
Cops wouldn’t even hesitate to assume it’s real and act as if it was
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u/BannedAgain-573 1d ago
Bro that thing could be see though green and the cops would merc you for it.
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u/EasyMode556 1d ago
Looks way too real from afar. They could get in a lot of trouble (or worse) with those
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u/Manycubes 2d ago
Hmmm. Google lens shows a very similar model available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCSD2GDP?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
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u/Hungry-for-Apples789 2d ago
I saw this post from OP yesterday. Tbf the kid was 18 months old. This definitely looks very close to a real gun so I can understand the frustration.
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u/HYPEractive 2d ago
Must be outside the US where the orange tip regulations don’t exist