Would it be possible to make a fake 45 gun out of modelling clay?

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  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,591 Championing

    Next you'll be saying little kids who buy guns from shops will start getting arrested 😄

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,423 Championing

    Section 19 … Reasonable Excuse

    Brandishing it out of the car window a big no no … security checking it on the doors of the Comic Con to see that it complies and not a prohibited item makes it OK

    If people have to stop having fun, then the ones with nefarious intent are winning and the world is going to live in constant suspicion and fear

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,120 Connected

    To quote the late David Haig as DI Grim in the Thin Blue Line, "I do not advocate a Police state!", to which Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Fowler says "No, you just want everyone to live in abject fear of authority", to which DI Grim responds "Well it would be nice!"

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,423 Championing

    The only Thin Blue Line I like 😉

    I hate seeing it on uniforms for the thin blue line gang

    I hope you go ahead whichever way mate, to make your costume complete, to get the most enjoyment from your day

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,120 Connected

    No PC worth his pension would arrest a 5 year old carrying a prop gun, they'd be laughed out of Court.

    More to the point, kids do play "Cops and Robbers" or even "Cowboys and Indians", I did back then, and I turned out OK.

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Community Member Posts: 1,412 Championing

    Oh I see you can laugh and bully people, but for some reason you can't take it back. Am right?

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,591 Championing

    Excuse me sir, but you're the one who laughed at me first, so I laughed at you back. Thankyou

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Scope Member Posts: 1,591 Championing

    Yeah, no PC worth his weight would ever arrest someone for a cardboard gun. They would probably laugh the person who reported it down the street. Haha. Hope you have a good time at your convention whatever you choose to do.

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,423 Championing

    Technically you could be arrested for any type of 'firearm' … but common sense dictates, don't wave it around in public, don't cause anyone fear or distress

    In a Comic Con there's less chance of being arrested than me walking 20 yards without going sideways. Just have a good one 😊

    … we used to play Cowboys & Native Americans using folded hankerchiefs … I was Audie Murphy 🤣Innocent times when the world wasn't quite so barmy

  • egiste2r
    egiste2r Posts: 161 Connected

    Totalitarian regimes are afraid of their citizens and prohibit them from owning weapons. If desired, a lone terrorist can, even where there are many prohibitions, kill many innocent people.

    Stupid restrictions only benefit the authorities. Consider, for example, the gradual, de facto erosion of the rights of people with disabilities through new laws.


    For example, why is there no ban on studying combat planning at universities? Think about it.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,120 Connected

    The thing about "common" sense is that it ain't actually that common is it?

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,410 Trailblazing

    I'm sure nothing untoward is likely to come of it, but I still would exercise caution, with regards to i imitation firearms. You know you mean no harm, but what about members of the public getting the wrong idea; imagine if the person in possession of the imitation firearm were to also suffer a meltdown?

    Tragic mistakes have happened.

  • SwiftFox
    SwiftFox Community Member Posts: 1,412 Championing
    edited June 29

    Are you advocating that the man in the street should be armed? If you are then it's a silly thing to say on an open forum. We're talking fake guns, not real ones.🤔

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,120 Connected

    Don't be daft, no shopkeeper worth the rent on his Unit would sell even a realistic looking piece of plastic to a minor.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 3,120 Connected

    People legally on the Streets armed in the UK will never happen, and anyone with more than half a brain knows why.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,410 Trailblazing
    edited June 29

    I mentioned this above, but it doesn't matter about the good intentions of the holder of perhaps a perfectly innocent object, it's other memebers of the public drawing the wrong conclusion that's the problem. The man in the article i linked to was shot dead by the police, all for having a table leg in a carrier bag, it was reported he had a sawn off shotgun.

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  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,423 Championing
    edited June 29

    There's a joke there but I'm a good boy …

    I once knew a man who got 5 years for holding up a betting shop with a cucumber in a carrier bag 🤨

    On this subject though … we're not talking about parading any type of 'weapon in public. Where someone could misconstrue true meaning

    … we're talking about a convention, where security will check, then security tag any 'weapons'. Where a cardboard gun would be one of the tamest weapons being carried/ brandished around

    I don't know SheffieldMan in person but he comes across as the type of person who would only have it in a safe enviroment for the purpose it's intended for … Section 19 … Reasonable Excuse

    … of course if he wants to go all Dirty Harry on the streets, that's a different barrel of bullets

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,410 Trailblazing

    I agree that Sheffield's intentions are perfectly innocent, but none of us can control what another member of the public might conclude.

    I agree that if any imitation firearm has to be taken to an event, it should definitely be concealed in a rucksack or whatever the rest of the time. My view is still to forgo even carrying a concealed imitation firearm in the first place, but it's only my opinion.

  • egiste2r
    egiste2r Posts: 161 Connected

    You do not notice the obvious - laws constantly take away certain rights from the people. The right to guns is no longer there, now the fight is against mock guns used for entertainment purposes. Should we remind you about the new ban on social networks for teenagers?
    What ban will happen tomorrow?


    Would it have been possible to discuss this topic about toy guns 10 years ago?