I Don't Like Pink Guns

Tam's post on pink guns last week got me thinking about why I don't like pink guns.

It's not that I don't like it when a gun maker strays from tradition - I think those camo shotguns look cool as hell - and it's not some anti-pink macho thing.

I don't like real guns looking like toys.

When I was a kid, my toy guns looked fairly real. Some looked really real. It was fine, I was in no danger of getting shot by a cop concerned with making it home that night. I wasn't that kind of threat, and kids playing with toy guns wasn't cause for PSH.

A few years ago, my then-6 year old son found one of my old toy guns at my dad's house. It was a Luger, and it looked real. It was also in pretty good shape, considering it was well over 30 years old. Dad was more sentimental than he let on, thankfully.

Anyway, my son immediately latched on to it. After getting over my initial reaction of "That's MY toy! Back off!" I let him play with it around the house. All was fine until I saw him make for the door heading outside. I stopped him. No way was he going outside with that.

I knew how times had changed. I didn't want him winding up like THIS poor kid. See the toy gun in that picture? Looks just like my S&W 6906.

Due to changing times, we've had to make sure toy guns look like toys.

I don't see the wisdom of making real guns look like toys, too.

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