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If it doesn't chamber and fire live ammunition, then it's a toy, a prop. Pull the trigger and say pow.
It's a toy to you. You can say it's a toy all day long, it won't change how a lot of governments and some states see them. That is a fact you can't change. I know this is difficult for you to understand.
If you want to consider fake guns and fake grenades to be guns and explosives, fine. But that's not the way most people would see it.
I'm not sure I'm following you, although I read all the comments. If you walk into a bank and use a flashlight in your jacket pocket to rob it, it's still Armed Robbery. If the teller has a heart attack after you point a "fake" or "toy" gun at him, you are still responsible for his death.
Since this thread is about the attack in Nice, I cannot comment on the laws of that country. However, I'm pretty sure I'm correct about the laws in most states. A dangerous weapon doesn’t necessarily mean a loaded gun. It could be an unloaded gun, a replica or even a baseball bat. It's whatever might scare a reasonable person into believing his or her life is being threatened. I am a crime victim, and the man who assaulted me threatened to kill me if I did not cooperate. He later said he was "kidding" but that really doesn't matter, does it?
I'm not sure I'm following you, although I read all the comments. If you walk into a bank and use a flashlight in your jacket pocket to rob it, it's still Armed Robbery. If the teller has a heart attack after you point a "fake" or "toy" gun at him, you are still responsible for his death.
Since this thread is about the attack in Nice, I cannot comment on the laws of that country. However, I'm pretty sure I'm correct about the laws in most states. A dangerous weapon doesn’t necessarily mean a loaded gun. It could be an unloaded gun, a replica or even a baseball bat. It's whatever might scare a reasonable person into believing his or her life is being threatened.
This is exactly what I was talking about. Some states have even have laws on them. I even heard cases of people shot by the police over a replica. An ATF agent once told me some replica are just deactivated guns missing a firing pin.
If you walk into a bank and use a flashlight in your jacket pocket to rob it, it's still Armed Robbery.
Absolutely. But that doesn't mean that the robber had a gun in his pocket and having fake guns and a grenade doesn't mean that the Nice maniac had guns and explosives in his truck.
Replicas are typically unable to chamber or fire live ammunition.
This is why I kept saying real replicas and not toy guns. The ATF will classifiy some guns as replicas if you remove the firing pin and stuff the barrel.
Replicas are typically unable to chamber or fire live ammunition.
WHO FLIPPING CARES!
A fake gun will get you just as dead as a real one and it would be considered your own fault.
Sheesh.....
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