UK freaks about LEGO guns

I want one of those books!

of course, I'd have to get some legos too.

Now I know what to get Thain for Christmas. The man can't wait 'til the baby is big enough to play with legos.

I've always been a far of the founding fathers, but the past couple years, I'm becoming ever more *seriously* grateful.

Oh man, I hope my parents still have that MASSIVE box of legos from when I was little...

That reminds me!

I gotta order a new copy of Anarchist's Cookbook.

The pages are all stuck together on my original copy.

Oh for the Love of GOD ... what do they put in the drinking water on Airstrip One?


clicky <- There you go ... piss off a Brit for only $16.47

I appreciate the vigilance of our English cousins. It would please me very much if they would ban rubberband guns and the materials from which they are made.

In addition to the rubber bands all one needs is homemade launcher. A large book will do but a rolled up newspaper such as London's Evening Standard or The Daily Telegraph. Stretch the rubber band across the launcher, aim it at the victim, and flip one end of the rubber band with your thumb.

The time has come, I think, when England must recognize its obligation to ban books and newspapers to prevent them from being used as weapons by the hopelessly depraved. Let England take the lead in preventing incidents like that depicted below.

It would please me very much if they would ban rubberband guns and the materials from which they are made.

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Back when I was a maladjusted youngster, i made them from rubber bands and fingers. Rubber bands are obviously dangerous, but we cannot forget to ban fingers; they also pull triggers. That sounds like more than enough reason to me.

I build lego tanks, LAVs and attack helos for my son, complete with gun turrets and rocket tubes.. he loves them...

also made a klingon bird of prey...

i used to build constantly. I was only allowed a couple hours of TV and video games growin up so legos were a way of life. I took normal peaceful kits and added guns and missiles and torpedoes. Lego wars in my bedroom were common. Every time i'm home (about 2-3 times a year) I check to make sure mom hasn't gotten rid of the legos that still take up a considerable space in my room. i'm 22 and still insist on at least 1 lego kit for Christmas each year.

Back when I was a maladjusted youngster, i made them from rubber bands and fingers. Rubber bands are obviously dangerous, but we cannot forget to ban fingers; they also pull triggers. That sounds like more than enough reason to me.

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Fingers are indeed evil. You could poke your eye out with one.

Wait until you see what I can do with Lincoln Logs!

................*is speechless*..............

We ought to start a Christmas toy gun thread with links to the toy guns we remember best from childhood.
I've started threads like this on non firearms related forums and they go pretty well.

Fact is I'd disposed of all but a couple of guns and had pretty much given up collecting until I started buying a few replica airsoft and pellet guns for use as movie props, this renewed my interest in gun collecting.
On one of the prop building forums we collect links to realistic toyguns for use in recreating non functional replicas of props used in our favorite films, Starwars, Robocop, etc.

God this Brit stuff is priceless.

Could we have a subforum where we can stick all these silly Brit articles banning everything from glass bottles to phallic toothbrushes?

I think it was sometime after World War I that England first began its drive to get all guns off that blessed isle. If that memory is accurate, the English people were in strong reaction against the horror of that war, which cost them the lives of many young men from an entire generation.

The English were so successful in getting firearms out of its people's hands and into the melters that the entire country became vulnerable to attack. It's one of the factors that convinced Adolf Hitler that England was a soft target and easily conquered. Its own gun control attitudes and successes cost England the lives of many young men from that entire generation in World War II. It also cost England the lives of many older men and women, and children too, because Hitler attempted to invade England by bombing it to soften it for invasion.

I don't know if anyone else here is old enough to remember that England appealed for the donation of small arms--handguns, rifles, and shotguns--from American shooters or that it was the NRA that coordinated the appeal. The reason why England appealed to ordinary United States citizens for help is that we had the right to keep and bear arms, so Americans had not been victimized by extreme gun control. Our people had the guns and could defend ourselves against Axis invasion. Their people didn't: the English government prohibited its citizens from having the means of defense.

I'm aware that it's unrealistic to think that such a thing could ever happen. But it did.

In any event, since the English had firsthand experience with the consequences of gun control and gun bans, it has gone down the same path. With the same results, of course. England is a soft target for Muslim extremists and other terrorists, and its citizens have neither the will nor the means to defend themselves once again.

I don't recall that England ever returned the guns borrowed from Americans.

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It all makes sense now, Ban the LEGO's in the UK, we can't have the UK following the forbidden LEGO culture of the United States.

Bit fuzzy, but I seem remember my LEGOs has little guns for the space guys. You also had a moon base w/ crew served guns and missle sites. But this was 30 years ago so I could be wrong.

I've spent years of my childhood playing with Legos. I've made spacecraft, land-vehicles, boats, planes, and even whole bases. It disgusts me that they'd try to put down such a great, creative, mind-stimulating activity by screaming "OMGZH IT HAS GUNZ THAT COULD LEAD CHILDREN DOWN THE WRONG PATH, PARENTS BANBANBANBAN!"

How many engineers out there have spent at least some of their young lives playing with Legos?

One of these weekends when America doesn't have much to do and is bored, we should go take England over (shouldn't take more than a day or two since the civvies are unarmed), get them rearmed under the 2nd amendment and put them back on the correct path to freedom.
It is funny just to listen to the hysteria of the week coming from over there. You can't make this stuff up!
When I was growing up, just about everything I held became a gun eventually.

The more I learn about the UK the more I laugh. Can this really be the land of the football hooligan?

"Lego is set to turn slightly more sinister with the launch of an unofficial book that teaches children how to make weapons out of the iconic plastic bricks," warned London's Evening Standard.

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Evening Standard is a tabloid and the nursery quote was misrepresented as the telegraph claimed someone else dubbed it. Can't find the nuclear quote.

Fox News on the other hand seems to toe the line between tabloid and serious news all too often.

We will never be invaded gun ban or no gun ban.We fight for our country no matter what we are armed with.We are not the land of the football hooligan,or the violent crime centre of Europe you constantly paint us as.
I am afraid you yanks read too many anti Brit tabliods,and have fallen into the age old trap of believing what you read.