Pink Gun Mistaken For Toy, 3 Year Old S.C. Boy Killed - Polidicks

[QUOTE=aznz888;39486865]what i'm curious about is, how the hell did a 3 & 7 year old operate the gun? was it just left cocked? if any of you havent shot a gun before, racking a 1911's slide requires considerable strength. while it's not herculean by any set of standards, a child shouldnt have the power to cock a pistol.[/QUOTE] Are you like, 100lb or something? Cocking almost any gun (that I've used, including a 1911) is like buttering toast...

This is why women should not own guns. These things are not toys.. We should end women's suffrage. I'm sexist.

Who the fuck make a gun pink? Weapons should not be made to look colourful unless they are fake and plastic. There ought to be a law against colouring [B]real[/B] weapons to make it looked like a toy.

1. educate your children if you own a firearm 2. place it in a location that is impossible for a 7 year old to reach mainly 1 because we mystify guns like some kind of mysterious evil entity to children and in reality it actually encourages them to go find it and play with it.

Pink gun does not equal toy. It's completely irrelevant what color or design(such as being a Hello Kitty gun) the gun uses. The only relevant element here is that children were able to acquire a loaded gun. As long as firearms are properly secured then it doesn't matter how attractive they are to kids, the kids will never see them except under supervision.

[QUOTE=Craig Willmore;39494179]1. educate your children if you own a firearm 2. place it in a location that is impossible for a 7 year old to reach mainly 1 because we mystify guns like some kind of mysterious evil entity to children and in reality it actually encourages them to go find it and play with it.[/QUOTE] This.

It's so weird how stories like this always end with getting shot in the head. It's so depressing. Why can't it just miss for once?

[QUOTE=Craig Willmore;39494179]1. educate your children if you own a firearm 2. place it in a location that is impossible for a 7 year old to reach mainly 1 because we mystify guns like some kind of mysterious evil entity to children and in reality it actually encourages them to go find it and play with it.[/QUOTE] Gun owners [B]will always[/B] fuck up. Like anyone else.

[QUOTE=BCell;39494076]Who the fuck make a gun pink? Weapons should not be made to look colourful unless they are fake and plastic. There ought to be a law against colouring [B]real[/B] weapons to make it looked like a toy.[/QUOTE] The problem here is that they left a loaded, (probably) cocked handgun where their children could reach it, unlocked. The weapon isn't the problem here.

Ban Assualt paint jobs on guns. Only the police and military should have camo and sexy paintjobs on their firearms!

[QUOTE=JJ Isaac;39490331]What kind of fuck-tard company manufactures these? Seriously, while in the board meeting when they presented this idea did a single person not speak up and say "this kinda resembles a toy. Is that ok?" Or is it that the people running this company are in fact a bunch of children in suits who think they are making toys? Fuck.[/QUOTE] customers like to mod their guns though S&W did make a pink M&P a while ago.

[QUOTE=Live2becool;39496244]It's so weird how stories like this always end with getting shot in the head. It's so depressing. Why can't it just miss for once?[/QUOTE] Because there are no news stories for the times it misses.

I don't see how they could keep a gun so ready to fire easily accessible to their children before they leave their home. It's like at my first job at a car wash business; cleaning out a car and three Winchester hunting rifle rounds fall out from under the seat. How does someone just forget about this shit? How do they not get into an anxiety fit thinking about how a product specifically made for the purpose of killing people is so easily accessible by anyone? I remember later that night making jokes with my friends about a bullet dropping in the car and rolling under the seat. "Oh no that's ok, those darn things are everywhere by now, it's no big deal..."

[QUOTE=Da Big Man;39486953]Not to mention the 1911 is a pretty safe handgun. If a round isn't chambered, you have to, in order: flick the safety off, rack the slide to chamber a round, use the slide release, and in order to even pull the trigger you have to have a firm grip on the grip-mounted safety. Whatever happened, someone really fucked up.[/QUOTE] "safe handgun"

i wonder if anyone realized that the article hints that the kids sister may have inadvertently killed him that's fucked man

[QUOTE=JJ Isaac;39490331]What kind of fuck-tard company manufactures these? Seriously, while in the board meeting when they presented this idea did a single person not speak up and say "this kinda resembles a toy. Is that ok?" Or is it that the people running this company are in fact a bunch of children in suits who think they are making toys? Fuck.[/QUOTE] If this is the one made by Gunsmoke Guns, they're a family owned business so no board of directors. They specialize in custom guns, and the pink gun was one of those custom orders. Rich Wyatt (founder) did not initially want to produce more of them, but his wife and co-owner Renee Wyatt convinced him, and in fact the whole staff also approved.