More on colored guns
According to this piece at ABC News by LESLIE YERANSIAN, Bloomberg is targeting colored gun kits as made by Lauer Weaponry. Bloomberg is targeting one of the more popular brands of quality products and these paint jobs are expensive. The paint is cheap, if you do it yourself but it requires knowing what you’re doing. Some stuff:
Mayor Bloomberg held up a toy gun and a real gun that had been colored using a paint kit to demonstrate how indistinguishable the guns would be to a police officer who might be confronting a person with one of the disguised weapons.
But Hugh Lauer said Bloomberg’s demonstration was a foolish one because, said Lauer, the real gun was obvious: “Maybe the real gun is the one with a hole and a barrel?”
Heh. More:
Lauer is the owner of Lauer Custom Weaponry in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and the inventor of Duracoat, a popular gun coloration chemical that has taken heat from Bloomberg. Lauer invented Duracoat more than a decade ago. He said he can’t keep up with the abundance of phone and Internet orders for the product.
“Our customers are all avid hunters, law enforcement, not gang bangers,” said Lauer. “We’re not getting orders from New York City. Our sales records only show two orders placed from there, and same thing with Los Angeles. We’re only getting order from movie makers.”
Two orders? Bloomberg is rather fanatical, it seems. And here’s a brilliant piece of journalistic integrity:
Regardless of how many gun-coloration kits Lauer is selling in New York, 80 percent of the guns used in committing crimes there have come from out of state.
And that is related how precisely?
June 8th, 2006 at 12:50 am
I like the Diamond Plate finish. Quoted on the website as “The Complete Firearms Camouflage System”.
Umm, camouflage for what? The bumper of your dump truck?
June 8th, 2006 at 2:53 am
” … 80 percent of the guns used in committing crimes there have come from out of state.”
I didn’t think anybody made guns in New York; that would mean that 100% of the guns came from “out of state.”
What’s his point? (that’s a rhetorical question)
June 8th, 2006 at 8:03 am
90% of carpet comes from Dalton, GA. Ouch, I skinned my knee.
June 8th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
If you watch the recent video on Patterico.com, you will see the LEO’s shoot and kill a man who used a cell phone as if it were a hand gun. He pointed it at the cops – repeatedly – so they shot him. I say good on them.
But I wonder what Bloomy would say; “Ban cell phones that could be held in such a way as to cause a LEO to believe it is hand gun.”?
He’s a rich, ignorant moron. He’s got his goons with guns protecting him.
Why do so many politicians lack common sense?