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

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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