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Showing Original Post only (View all)'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 childrens 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. Heres 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 dads gun safe.]
Whats 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 Precisions 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
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 childrens 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. Heres 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 dads gun safe.]
Whats 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 Precisions 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.
{snip}
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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mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2021
OP
If one is participating in recreational shooting, that does neccesitate shooting firearms, yes?
Dial H For Hero
Jul 2021
#4
As I discovered when discussing this story in GD, simply pointing out facts is cause for being
Dial H For Hero
Jul 2021
#11
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
Fair enough. Regarding the comments in this thread, then: How does pointing out an inaccurate
Dial H For Hero
Jul 2021
#15
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
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
I am only responsible for firearms I might own, strangers will do whatever they do.
EX500rider
Jul 2021
#22
Anymore then I feel responsible for strangers who DUI because I also own a car.
EX500rider
Jul 2021
#24
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
It's just not a cause I feel I could do much to change how strangers store their guns.
EX500rider
Jul 2021
#34