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mahatmakanejeeves

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Tue Jul 13, 2021, 08:18 PM Jul 2021

'SUPER FUN': A gun covered in Legos to look like a toy sets off a furor [View all]

I generally shy away from threads about gun control and the RKBA, but I'm having a hard time seeing how this could turn out well. If nothing else, Lego might take offense at what looks to me like an infringement of their trademark.

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‘SUPER FUN’: A gun covered in Legos to look like a toy sets off a furor



This Glock handgun was customized by Culper Precision to model the appearance of Lego building blocks. (Culper Precision)

By John Woodrow Cox
July 13, 2021 | Updated today at 11:24 a.m. EDT

About a week ago, a company in Utah that makes custom modifications to firearms debuted what it described as a fun new product: a kit that encases Glock handguns in red, yellow and blue Lego blocks, refashioning lethal weapons to look exactly like children’s toys.

“We have been building guns out of blocks for the last 30 years and wanted to flip the script to aggravate Mom,” Provo-based Culper Precision explained on its website. It went on to argue that personal defense is a right granted by God and that gun ownership is protected by the Constitution before getting to the most important reason the company was selling “BLOCK19,” as the design was named, for $549 to $765, depending on the specifics.

“There is a satisfaction that can ONLY be found in the shooting sports and this is just one small way to break the rhetoric from Anti-Gun folks and draw attention to the fact that the shooting sports are SUPER FUN!” the site proclaimed, exuding a bravado that would prove to be short-lived. “Here’s the thing. Guns are fun. Shooting is fun. 30 rounds full auto is fun.”

[He said he was going to watch cartoons. Instead, he opened his dad’s gun safe.]

What’s not fun, and went unaddressed on the sales page, is the reality that thousands of children unintentionally shoot themselves or others each year because they find a gun and pull its trigger. Culper Precision’s customization arrived at a time when that problem is only getting worse and firearm sales are soaring. As word of the new product spread on the Internet late last week, the idea struck many people as so profoundly misguided that it would inevitably cost children their lives.

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By John Woodrow Cox
John Woodrow Cox is an enterprise reporter at The Washington Post. He is the author of Children Under Fire: An American Crisis (March 30, 2021) and was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. Twitter https://twitter.com/JohnWoodrowCox
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Now they are saying it outloud, an unfired gun is just no fun! sanatanadharma Jul 2021 #1
If one is participating in recreational shooting, that does neccesitate shooting firearms, yes? Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #4
A child would certainly want to play with it. keithbvadu2 Jul 2021 #2
Horrible idea DashOneBravo Jul 2021 #3
Poor reporting sarisataka Jul 2021 #5
Thank you for the update. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2021 #6
No, extraordinarily poor judgment by a gun manufacturer. Paladin Jul 2021 #7
I blame the reporter sarisataka Jul 2021 #8
You're making my day. Many thanks. (nt) Paladin Jul 2021 #9
As I discovered when discussing this story in GD, simply pointing out facts is cause for being Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #11
Big difference between pointing out facts and deflecting blame. Paladin Jul 2021 #12
In that thread, I was asked what impact the "Lego gun" would have on shootings commited by toddlers. Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #13
My comment was with regard to comments in this thread. Paladin Jul 2021 #14
Fair enough. Regarding the comments in this thread, then: How does pointing out an inaccurate Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #15
Hang on to that "inaccurate headline" angle all you want. Paladin Jul 2021 #16
I agree that the cease and desist letter made the manufacture of this kit moot. But nowhere have I Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #17
Utah Company Suspends Lego Handgun Case Kits Sales After Cease And Desist Eugene Jul 2021 #10
Does not bother me too much EX500rider Jul 2021 #18
I know. Not much bothers a gunner. No matter that 40-50 toddlers shoot themselves AndyS Jul 2021 #19
Fact: all firearms regardless of color should be safely secured around children EX500rider Jul 2021 #20
So when you can convince your gunner comrades to AndyS Jul 2021 #21
I am only responsible for firearms I might own, strangers will do whatever they do. EX500rider Jul 2021 #22
I see. While you don't see yourself as part of the problem AndyS Jul 2021 #23
Anymore then I feel responsible for strangers who DUI because I also own a car. EX500rider Jul 2021 #24
Ok, let me lower the heat that I brought to this. AndyS Jul 2021 #25
If I might jump in.... Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #27
Thanks for that but you seem to have missed the point. AndyS Jul 2021 #28
What exactly are you asking for? Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #29
*Sigh* I've told you what I'm asking for. AndyS Jul 2021 #30
Gun people are already discussing gun safety, and always have been. Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #31
Lather, rinse, repeat. After 40 years it gets tiring. Good day, sir. AndyS Jul 2021 #32
That's all you have? Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #33
If I might jump in... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2021 #35
I would certainly be open to private sellers having access to the NICS. Quite reasonable. Dial H For Hero Jul 2021 #36
The problem, Andy, is that the 'real' answers to violence aren't easy and we all know it. Decoy of Fenris Jul 2021 #37
Ah yes, standard gun talking point #23 (or somewhere) on the list of well rehearsed AndyS Jul 2021 #38
Well allrighty then. From your silence and after re-reading the up-thread posts AndyS Jul 2021 #26
It's just not a cause I feel I could do much to change how strangers store their guns. EX500rider Jul 2021 #34
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