I’ve heard a lot of stories about kids painting the orange tips on airsoft guns black and getting in trouble with the police who think it’s a real firearm.
Why don’t criminals do the opposite? Paint the end of the gunbarrel orange so people think it’s an airsoft gun or a toy?
It wouldn’t be great for a robbery, because they’d want the victims to know it’s a real gun. But maybe put orange tape on the barrel they could take off before the crime and put on afterwards? Or during transport or if it’s being used for self defense against other criminals.
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Buddy, cops shoot people for having wallets and cell phones. You think they won’t shoot you for waiving around a gun with an orange tip? Also if you are a criminal and the cop can see your gun you are getting arrested. So it’s not like you can just whip it out and be like “Airsoft bro!!” and the cops is going to say “Oh, my mistake. Carry on with your crime.”
You could have a phone in your hand and cops would still blow you away as if it were a real gun. A little bit of orange tape is going to do sweet fuck all.
To anyone that is familiar with real guns and used to looking at them (like cops) it is fairly easy to tell them apart from an airsoft gun regardless of the orange tip. Kids that paint the barrel black get in trouble not because the cops can’t tell the difference but because most average people can’t and it causes a panic.
I have seen where they do put guns in nerf cases or water gun cases sometimes. I image there is just not really a ton of scenarios where it actually helps you achieve your goal more than a normal gun
those are there for the people seeing them, not cops. Cops treat everything like it’s a real gun because people can do what you wrote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_FUngkYbc not exact but close).
Tips are painted orange to reduce people calling cops on kids and such
A person dressed as a Star Wars Storm Trooper, carrying a plastic “blaster” was treated as though they were carrying a real gun. The best thing to do, when carrying a gun, is to be as white as possible. I wish this were not so true. It is not 100% effective, but might as well be.
Because if criminals are in a altercation with police it doesn’t matter what color the tip of the gun is.
because then you would have to shoot people to prove its a gun, thus kind of circumventing the point of the orange tip.
Also, cops dgaf. They’ll smoke you regardless. Don’t run from them, that just makes em dumb.
Cops are trained to fire at whomever is holding the gun shaped object. It doesn’t matter if it’s painted orange or not.
No reason too since the police tend to shoot you regardless.
The orange tip isn’t going to do much to prevent you from getting caught with a weapon if you’re being searched. If you need to use it in a crime then you’ve proved it’s real.
Basically no upside.
However; if you do get caught with a real gun with an orange tip you’ve basically proved criminal intent and it’s a hell of a lot easier to prosecute you.
Because people don’t brandish guns to look harmless. People brandish guns to threaten
In general, they’re not just walking around brandishing their weapons, and if they are, it’s probably not in a manner that you need to worry about whether or not it’s real.
Criminals are dumb AF ..that’s why they are criminals.
What if the cops started painting the front of their cars orange and started wearing orange caps?