Coloring guns and putting cutesy pictures on them should be outlawed, plain and simple. It's just plain stupidity. What child wouldn't want to pick that up and play with it? It looks enticing doesn't it? If it isn't outlawed some other idiot down the road will do the same thing. That's a given.

This is all blown out of proportion. These guns are mainly designed for collectors and it shows by the fact that very few of the are actually made. There is no reason they should be banned. Anyway the reason for making these guns was for the gun dealer to stick his tongue out at the bloomburg colored gun ban, pure and simple. I'm not surprised that WAVE would be appalled, they are an antigun organization.

Do some critical thinking and actually look into the issue, you will see you have little to fear.

BTW the reason the police say they fear them is because the mayor does- remember the mayor pays the police chief so basically the chief will do what the mayor wants.

Anonymous, it's not that I'm against guns because in fact I'm not. Possibly you don't have children or aren't around children much but I, as well as many people who have or work with children will tell you this is an EXTREMELY dangerous thing to do. Obviously we should ALWAYS be conscientiously prudent if we own a gun. But there is a larger issue here, and that is that this type of obvious enticement is more likely to result in a tragedy. I cannot imagine any child seeing this and NOT touching it. However I can imagine that a child MIGHT not touch a gun that looks... well...like a gun. Hopefully the situation would never present itself in the first place but this is really "out there". While I realize that possibly no ill-intent was meant by "decorating" these guns, that is beside the point. All of us do things sometimes without thinking or possibly because our minds are so much in one direction that we forget to consider the flip-side. For that reason, painting and making guns "cutesy" should be outlawed, for the little people who need to grow up to be "big" people, even if some other "big" people didn't actually mean any ill intent and they never get that chance.

The gun pictured above is an AR-15, NOT an AK-47 and it was not even painted by Jim's Gun Supply. How do I know? Because I own that gun and that picture came from my blog. www.blog.riflegear.com. It is a one of a kind gun that I had a friend of mine paint for me. It is not "advertised", it is displayed as a parody and the gun is kept safely locked up in my gun safe when my wife and I are not shooting it. The Mayor is whipping up fear about mass produced guns being made to look like toys and that they are lying around "near little girls". This is a gross distortion and horrible reporting by everyone involved. Think about what you are advocating - that we should take away a person's right to paint their personal property particular colors? Are you serious? Check the facts on how many children have been injured by pink guns vs black and "normal" colors. Somehow I don't think you can draw any conclusions based on facts that a pink gun is more dangerous than a black one. No child, other then perhaps my children, will "touch" this gun. When they do touch it, it will be at the range under my supervision. This gun is not lying around on the playground waiting for children to play with. Think a little bit before you speak. People that pay for these custom paint jobs are NOT the people and guns you need to worry about. You need to worry about the cheap $200 handguns being sold on the street to criminals, NOT custom paint jobs that cost hundreds of dollars being painted on personal firearms that are slready owned and registered to law-abiding citizens like myself.

I checked your blog site and the picture of the gun at your site is NOT the same as the picture above. Your site shows a rifle with a "devil kitty" and this one does not. While you may be consciencious with your guns that doesn't necessarily transfer over to others who might see this. Do you really think some little thug might not get his girlfriend one of these? I think they would, legal or not. Once something like this catches on it can become quite dangerous, especially for young kids. As I said, maybe it was just done for fun without ill intent but that doesn't change the fact that it's foolish thing to do. I will agree everyone needs to calm the hell down about guns. Quite often there's a misguided, uninformed panic that just isn't valid. As I've said before with all the guns we have in America if people were that crazy we'd all have been dead a long time ago. As for telling people what color of gun they can have, yes, I think it's valid. We tell people you can only put gasoline in a red container. It's not that big of a deal. If you think it is then YOU'RE overreacting. Buck up.

Yes, that IS my gun. I photoshopped the image last night from "Hello Kitty" to "Hell Kitten" (get it?) to avoid claims of copyright infringement because of all the press this is getting. It's really quite amusing how everyone has blown this out of proportion. Just because you think it is "foolish" does not make it a "fact". One fact that I am sure of is that not one of those over 100 children admitted to the hospital due to gun accidents/shootings was shot with a pink gun. I think the concern is a little misplaced.

Also, the police chief is concerned about it as well - has he or any of his officers ever encountreed a painted gun? They should assume that anything pointed at them could be potentialy harmful. They sure don't hesitate to gun down people that point their cell phones at them. Anyway, this is an interesting debate none the less. I for one do not like the idea of the government coming up with a list of "acceptable" colors for firearms, but I see that you think it is a-ok. What about camo patterns that hunters use, what about tan, or green colors? White (winter hunting camo)? Or is it just pink that should be banned? Or only pink with flowers? Nice slippery slope you are advocating there.

Quit being such a baby. The reason people aren't gunned down with pink guns is because they as yet haven't become the latest fad. It's is apparent that the ONLY person we need to consider here is YOU and YOUR FEELINGS, about colored weapons. Grow up. For the record, I don't think hunters NEED to have a camouflage or white or green gun either. Jesus Christ if you are so obnoxiously inept as a hunter to NOT be able to blow a deer away with a metal and wood gun GIVE IT UP! Deer are soooooo hard to shoot that most people can't avoid them with their CAR even when making the valid attempt! Get real. BTW David, just because you think it's fine does not in fact make it so. I have news for you, you're going to find a hell of a lot more people will agree with me than they will with YOU. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU...? I have nothing against guns. I do have something against idiots though, so cry all you want... it isn't going to change the fact that "cutesy" guns ARE IGNORANT!