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So this evening I had dinner with a friend at Chili's and as she's driving me home we come to a stop light, in the lane beside us (4 lane road, two lanes stopped at the red light) there's a guy in the back seat of a crew cab truck waving out the window to the car directly in front of us. I notice but think nothing of it. As the light turns green the car we all accelerate to the speed limit (40), and we come up along the side of the truck, I'm looking over and see that it's full of some kids about 18 or so years old and as we come up about even with it the kid that was in the back waving leans out and points an AR15 style rifle directly at me!! My heart instantly skips a beat, and I yell at the driver of the car I'm in to STOP (so if he starts to fire I'm not directly lined up with the business end of that thing!!) I instinctively lean forward and reach back to unholster my weapon and by that time she's slammed on the breaks are we're about even with the bed of the truck and I notice the orange ring around the end of the barrel (it's an airsoft gun). I breathed a massive sigh of realief, and say to the driver "it's ok, keep going" and then explain to her what happened, she hadn't noticed any of this. I quickly copied down the license plate and called the police and informed them of the incident and gave them the LP. I know kids will be kids, but this was incredibly stupid, maybe people including police have mistaken airsoft guns for real guns in the past and people have been killed. I hope an officer finds the truck and explains to the youths the gravity of the situation.
I never unholstered my weapon, as soon as my hand reached it I realized THANKFULLY that the threat was not real, however I did receive a massive adrenaline rush in the mean time :D
 
Yeah, I thought about that, I could've not realized it was a toy and shot them, but I would have possible taken a KID's life for being stupid, I just couldn't live with that. I would however press charges if I hear back from the police, I plan to stop by tomorrow morning and see if anything ever came of it.
 
You did well and good call on yourself.

Sounds like you have a very good grasp of the reasons to EDC ,AND the knowledge to look for every reason to not shoot.

Had simular incidents happen to me,and I was happy they didnt end with gunfire.
 
Best of all outcomes.
Nobody hurt.
911 notified with good info.
Sombody is gonna get an education in acceptable social behavior.

Good awareness and reaction on your part.
 
All jacked up on adrenaline and no reason to shoot. I know the feeling. I was doing security in a high crime subdivision once and had a car roll up on me with a barrel stuck out of the back window. Got splattered with water while drawing.
 
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I've taken down at gunpoint, or backed up others who have, my fair share of kids and young adults with realistic-looking "non-guns". Who remembers the black, battery-operated, magazine-fed water guns of the 1980s? Mine was the Uzi model, complete with the sliding stock and the sling. Later, I got a pistol one that looked like a Taurus PT 92. I'm sure it was meant to look like the Beretta, but it had brown fake-wood grips, so that made it look more like the Taurus.
 
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Who remembers the black, battery-operated, magazine-fed water guns of the 1980s?
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I do. I had one, but for the life of me I can not remember what happened to it.

OP, sounds like you did the right thing and no one was hurt. I'd like to be a fly on the wall for the conversation with the kids, cops, and presumably, parents.
 
I'd considered their actions a form of reckless endangerment. They could cause drivers to panic and have accidents. The little SOBs.
 
Who remembers the black, battery-operated, magazine-fed water guns of the 1980s?
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I still have a beretta 92 magazine fed cap gun from the 80's. It is so realistic that I have used it for drawing and presentation drills...even fits the holster.

kid...points an AR15 style rifle directly at me!!
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...I instinctively lean forward and reach back to unholster my weapon...
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by that time she's slammed on the breaks are we're about even with the bed of the truck and I notice the orange ring around the end of the barrel...
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Notice how that happened? Something similar happened to me. You will not notice if that muzzle is black, orange, pink, red, rainbow colored or bright pink. You see the outline of the rifle or a pistol and that is about it. Like you, I reacted. Like your story, a last minute detail that I noticed caused me to stop my course of action and saved some stupid kid's life (I wasn't on the highway, I was in my yard and there was nowhere to run).

I also witnessed a SWAT team raid a convenience store that I was in. I was unarmed and much younger, but all I saw was the barrel of an hk something or other coming in the door and a guy in all black. As it turns out, he had a badge and a vest on clearly labelled "POLICE." I didn't notice until later. It happened so fast, all I saw was the guy with the gun.
 
"Who remembers the black, battery-operated, magazine-fed water guns of the 1980s?"

"I do. I had one, but for the life of me I can not remember what happened to it."
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Your mom took it. So did mine, so we wouldnt end up doing something stupid like this.

I remember painting an orange cap gun to look like a real one. I didnt see the problem with it when I was young.
 
Fortunately, I've never seen anyone do that. However, my brother once brought an airsoft pistol with us in the car and outside a Golden Corral restaurant, he pulled it out and pointed it at the back of my head. I hit him and told him to not do that because to an outsider, it would look like somebody was being murdered and they would be able to shoot him with perfect legal justification.
 
I worked with a guy named Robert that had a somewhat similar experience. A bunch of clueless teenagers were in a top down convertible and started yelling and flipping him off at a stop light. He reached under the seat and grabbed his non-firing fake 1911 (no orange tips in those days), and holding it vertically, racked the slide and pointed it at them. They all dropped in the car and floored it through the red light. Lucky no one was hurt.

I was riding in the back seat of this same guy's precious 79 Camaro when a bunch of kids started flipping us off in their parent's Dodge Aries K-car. Robert started chasing them and they were running for their lives. I was in the back not knowing what to do. We were doing 70 on residential streets and blowing through stop signs. We pulled alongside and Robert swerved towards them. I turned around to look and they'd just hit a telephone pole and were spinning in the street. Someone probably got hurt on that one.
 
I worked with a guy named Robert that had a somewhat similar experience. A bunch of clueless teenagers were in a top down convertible and started yelling and flipping him off at a stop light. He reached under the seat and grabbed his non-firing fake 1911 (no orange tips in those days), and holding it vertically, racked the slide and pointed it at them. They all dropped in the car and floored it through the red light. Lucky no one was hurt.

I was riding in the back seat of this same guy's precious 79 Camaro when a bunch of kids started flipping us off in their parent's Dodge Aries K-car. Robert started chasing them and they were running for their lives. I was in the back not knowing what to do. We were doing 70 on residential streets and blowing through stop signs. We pulled alongside and Robert swerved towards them. I turned around to look and they'd just hit a telephone pole and were spinning in the street. Someone probably got hurt on that one.
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Wow! I sure hope you've distanced yourself from THAT idiot! Not the kind of guy you want to be associated with, let alone even be around.
 
Cops needed a heads upthat it was kids with an airsoft.

You could have saved a life with that call.

I remember painting an orange cap gun to look like a real one. I didnt see the problem with it when I was young.
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As long as you didn't take it out in public, there would not be a problem. Personally though I see no point in taking fake guns out in public even with orange tips.
 
Most people take the orange tips off airsoft guns (I did) many of the guns have tips that screw off or come off easy. Not recommending it just saying its common from what I've seen. But I used mine on private property with permission
 
I know exactly what you are talking about. Although I have not been a party to, I have seen kids I know, even some of my friends doing stupid things like this, although always on the street and not in a car. It could have been worse though. Most of my friends with airsoft guns paint the tips black, and I used to as well but when I started getting into firearms I realized how stupid and dangerous that could be. At least no one got hurt and hopefully the cops found them and set them straight. Unfortunately though, being a teenager myself and knowing what kind of kids do this, anything short of being charged will not put a dent in teenage mob mentality that causes things like this.
 
Keystone Arsenal Replicas believes this:
The law is very clear that an owner may possess an unmarked DOC air soft or replica but you may not (nor anyone): manufacture, transport (ship it or receive it) or enter into commerce (buy, sell or advertise) without this attached approved marking. Therefore if you remove the mark you cannot resell or move the product via any form of transit. See Regulation below:

[57 FR 48453, Oct. 26, 1992]
Sec. 1150.2 Prohibitions.

"No person shall manufacture, enter into commerce, ship, transport, or receive any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm (``device'') covered by this part as set forth in Sec. 1150.1 of this part unless such device contains, or has affixed to it, one of the markings set forth in Sec. 1150.3 of this part, or unless this prohibition has been waived by Sec. 1150.4 of this part."
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Think about this example: AutoOrdnance dummy Tommy Gun sold with orange tip:
http://www.auto-ordnance.com/dtlimg_t1dm.html
Odds of the fake gun on a collector's wall with the orange tip intact?
 
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