Real guns disguised to look like toys pose new threats to law enforcement

[Renew Deal]

MADISON, Ala. (WHNT) – Many fake guns look real, but now criminals are making real guns look like toys.

Captain John Stringer of the Madison Police Department says these toy store wannabes are providing new challenges to law enforcement officers.

“It’s another method of people on the street, especially some of our bad guys being able to hide the weapons from a distance. If it’s painted pink or blue we typically don’t associate that with a threat, it’s something that is typically a toy, so we are much less likely to treat it as a threat.”

Officers are trained to react to an individual producing a firearm from the torso area in about 1.2 seconds. This newest wrinkle adds yet another delay.
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http://whnt.com/2014/12/12/real-guns-disguised-to-look-like-toys-pose-new-threats-to-law-enforcement

Baltimore police intelligence bulletin

https://publicintelligence.net/baltimore-police-department-guns-that-look-like-toys
http://info.publicintelligence.net/GunsThatLookLikeToys.pdf

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. They pose an even bigger threat to non police.

It makes it even more likley that the police will shoot first and ask questions later. Because they are out thee, the police will assume even the most innnocent toy gun is real.

[99th_Monkey]

3. Exactly. This gives plausible 'cover' for cops to shoot kids at will.

If they have any kind of toy gun.

They'll just point to these, and say .. "hey, how was I supposed to know what was a toy or what was real?

[99th_Monkey]

2. Unreal.

WTF ... insidious ... evil ... officers are already shooting 12 year olds in the park with ACTUAL toy guns.

This just make a mockery of that scenario.

[Half-Century Man]

4. Complete horseshit

Jim's gun supplies does duracoat color jobs.
All firearms displayed in this flier are from www.jimsgunsupply.com. The work of legitimate legal gunsmiths.
There is no connection between the stock photos from the web site and any crime.
Alarmist flier to worry citizenry..to justify increasing budgets and mask bad shoots.

Issues include. Rulings of justifiable shooting when trigger happy officers open fire when arriving on scene.
Panicked citizens calling in armed strangers when kids are playing nearby.

The guns featured on the flier are the sales pictures from the web site.

[jen1980]

5. But they're trying to get children killed!

It is complete horseshit...on their part. Republicans hate children.

[Half-Century Man]

6. republicans hate.

They use lies to justify their actions
They use fear to keep people apart and not let them talk to each other to find out how close they are in reality.
They will spend your and my children to keep the fear in us.
They will spend the mental health of those sworn to protect and scared into over reacting.
They already spend the minds and bodies of solders, why would anyone think policemen are somehow sacred?
We know they spend the minds, bodies, and rights of minorities and the poor like it was bus fare, and they are destroying the middle class to make more poor people..............because it's funnier that way?


There has been a serious class war going on since Dewey and FDR. FDR knocked them down, but failed to administer the coup de gras. Like Sauron they licked their wounds in the shadows until they used treason repeatedly (1968, 72, and 80) steal elections. Since Reagan (1981) there has been a long standing campaign to topple the Republic of the United States of America. 44 years of vicious class warfare by the rich and beings who exist solely on paper using the republican party as foot solders.

[kcci]

7. Dewey supported most of the New Deal. He was a moderate, more progressive than Democrats today.