CNN notices Duracoat for the first time.

[Brian Dale]

Further thoughts about your classmate, Guitargod1985—maybe she's not comfortable admitting in school that she likes 'em:

(hey, what's an imagination for if we can't have fun with it?)

Maybe she's a Young Curmudgeon who prefers blued steel and wood.

Maybe she's a Tactical Poser who says that
"Gunz taht Rnt Blackx R teh Sux!!!!!!!1111(one)111"

Maybe she's a highpower competitor who spends every nickel on reloading supplies and doesn't like the idea of wasting money on paint.

Maybe she still bears a grudge from an old AK-vs-AR flame war someplace.

Not too many of the skinny-skis-and-Lycra crowd in Florida, so probably not a biathlete...

Maybe she's a "Hello Kitty is for little kids" snob...

Just thinkin'.

 

[Nagant]

If this wasn't part of the propaganda and ignorance to ban all weapons, this would be funny... kind of. Pathetic, disgusting. All kinds of adjectives....

 

[spiroxlii]

I don't mean to go so far off topic, but since when does a rifle have to be select-fire to be considered an assault rifle? I know technology advanced a lot during the 20th century, but there was a time when an assault rifle could be semiauto (SKS) and a battle rifle could be a bolt action (Enfield, Mauser, Springfield, Mosin-Nagant).

Such rifles were classified as "battle" or "assault" rifles based primarily on what cartridge they fired. Military rifles chambered for full size cartridges like 7.62NATO, .30-06, 7.62x54R were considered battle rifles. The ones chambered for intermediate cartridges like 5.56NATO and 7.62x39 were considered assault rifles.

On THR lately, I've seen posts suggesting that a the term "battle rifle" doesn't include bolt actions. Now in this thread, we're saying that semiautos like the SKS aren't assault rifles anymore?

I totally understand that a bolt action battle rifle would have no place as a front-line infantry weapon in modern warfare, but that doesn't change the fact that a rifle like the SMLE was a battle rifle, even if it doesn't look like a FAL.

I also understand that a semiauto assault rifle would be outclassed on the modern battlefield, but that doesn't mean that the SKS isn't an assault rifle anymore, even if it's not capable of doing the things an AK47, AK74, or M16/M4 can do.

 

[Fergo_the_mule]

If i am not mistaken did they show a mac 11 with a grenade launcher!?!?

 

[Brian Dale]

Such rifles were classified as "battle" or "assault" rifles based primarily on what cartridge they fired.

Primarily, yes, but ever since the original WWII-era Sturmgewehr, the term "assault rifle" has always referred to an intermediate-cartridge rifle with select fire capability.

The SKS never was one; it's simply a military semiauto rifle.

But it would look good in DuraCoat.

 

[ColinthePilot]

I'm not sure what the relevance of "marital aids" is in this discussion; don't they already come in just about every color?

I like my guns the way they are. I might have to consider a "blue steel" Taurus, or maybe a fun colored .22. My milsurps are staying as-is. I love that the colors irritate the antis, but I'm a purist when it comes to milsurps and thus lump Duracoat in with other forms of bubbasizing and ninjafying.

 

[kwikrnu]

It's already been that way for toy guns, IIRC. Not technically legal to remove the orange tip or change it's color, although I may be mistaken.

It may depend upon where you live. There may be State or Local laws which govern that.

I have found no Federal Law which states it is illegal to remove or re paint a toy gun.
You can look up the law by googling "title 15, U.S.C., 5001 and title 15, C.F.R., Part 1150"

California it is illegal to paint a firearm bright orange or green or disguise the firearm...
California penal code:
12020. (a) Any person in this state who does any of the following
is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year
or in the state prison:
(1) Manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the
state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives,
lends, or possesses any cane gun or wallet gun, any undetectable
firearm, any firearm which is not immediately recognizable as a
firearm...

12020.3. Any person who, for commercial purposes, purchases, sells,
manufacturers, ships, transports, distributes, or receives a
firearm, where the coloration of the entire exterior surface of the
firearm is bright orange or bright green, either singly, in
combination, or as the predominant color in combination with other
colors in any pattern, is liable for a civil fine in an action
brought by the city attorney of the city or the district attorney for
the county of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

 

[SuperNaut]

Ah, this thread is an oldie but a goodie.

 

[kwikrnu]

I bumped it because I'm going to paint the tip of my ak-47 handgun bright orange to look like an airsoft. Then open carry it.

 

[-eaux-]

At work I have a picture of my 1911 on my desktop

you might be a gun nut if...

pink and purple polkadots be derned. if it goes bang at me i could care less what color it is. it's YOUR _______. paint it ______ if you want to.

 

[thorazine]

CNN is my hero. =)

 

[Aran]

I bumped it because I'm going to paint the tip of my ak-47 handgun bright orange to look like an airsoft. Then open carry it.

That will go over.... poorly.

 

[kwikrnu]

That will go over.... poorly.

Are you a reporter and do you want to do a story on it? It's my gun and I will do with it what I like.

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Are you a reporter and do you want to do a story on it? It's my gun and I will do with it what I like.

One of the missions of The High Road is to promote responsible firearms ownership. Would you might explaining how making your gun look like an airsoft toy and walking around town promotes that mission? Especially when you seem keen on getting a reporter involved.

Just because something isn't illegal doesn't mean it isn't a bad idea.

 

[kwikrnu]

Are you against people who open carry or just don't like it if someone open carries a handgun you don't like? Or are you saying that an orange tipped gun is more dangerous than a pink or all black one?

How is the legal carrying of any firearm unreasonable? I recall the intent of the Founding fathers was that the Federal Government was to make no laws against me bearing any arms. The incorporation nonsense is just that.

You may not like it, but reporters are always involved when you read a newspaper or magazine or television account of an event.

 

[mustang_steve]

This really makes me want to take a Llama and paint it black with flames....flaming Llama, for the win.

 

[Isher]

CNN missed the REAL hardcore conspiracy.

Duracoat may be fine and interesting, but

If you compare it to firearm engraving

It is like comparing lipstick to tattoos.

See here: http://www.engravingarts.com/gallery_firearm_engraving.html

It actually makes the weapon look like a work of art!

Evil, evil, evil............

And practiced by a shadowy international group of

Individuals who are nearly impossible to infiltrate.


isher

 

[DinosaurJones]

Are you against people who open carry or just don't like it if someone open carries a handgun you don't like? Or are you saying that an orange tipped gun is more dangerous than a pink or all black one?

what benefit does it serve to paint your gun tip orange? just seems like an inflammatory gesture to me. I assumed you were being sarcastic at first about open carrying an orange tipped ak47 handgun...

 

[kwikrnu]

what benefit does it serve to paint your gun tip orange? just seems like an inflammatory gesture to me. I assumed you were being sarcastic at first about open carrying an orange tipped ak47 handgun...

What point does it serve to carry a gun with a pink grip, pink stock, or pink hand guards? What point does it serve to carry a .44 magnum handgun when a .38 special might do?

Firearms are dangerous and it makes no difference if one looks more dangerous or less lethal. If I am free to carry a gun then the appearance of the firearm should make no difference.

 

[DinosaurJones]

What point does it serve to carry a gun with a pink grip, pink stock, or pink hand guards? What point does it serve to carry a .44 magnum handgun when a .38 special might do?

Firearms are dangerous and it makes no difference if one looks more dangerous or less lethal. If I am free to carry a gun then the appearance of the firearm should make no difference.

there shouldn't be any legal restriction of gun coloring... but theres a difference between someone who wants to be "fashionable" with a pink gun & someone who would intentionally make their gun look like a toy... you have to apply common sense & intention at some point.

 

[kwikrnu]

So, what you are saying is that pink guns with hello kitty decals don't look like toys, but guns with barrel tips painted bright orange do look like toys? That is nonsense.

 

[DinosaurJones]

kwikrnu

what do you feel should be legal?

 

[BURN]

what do you feel should be legal?

replace "FEEL" with "THINK" please....

 

[kwikrnu]

I don't have anything to worry about this nonsense in my State. Painting a firearm any color you wish is not against the law.

 

[Robert]

I bumped it because I'm going to paint the tip of my ak-47 handgun bright orange to look like an airsoft. Then open carry it.

What an asinine idea. I mean it is you life and you are free to do what you like, but how does this in any way shape or form seem like a good idea? Taunting the government will not end well for you and while it may not be illegal in TN that does not mean it is a good idea. And you really carry an AK pistol open around town? You are free to thump your chest and do as you please but I still find the whole thing, the CNN story and a thread that is over a year old, to be asinine. By all means give the anti-gun folks something else to use against us. What could it hurt?

That being said. I have painted my FAL in a Mid-Latitude Steppe pattern to match the dry grass around here, but I would never paint a weapon to make it look like a toy or non firearm.