Reply #20: Um - nope i'm not.

[EricTeri]

I dont give a fuck what the police believe. I do not report to them.

They can CLAIM they couldn't tell it was real all they want. The problem there is not the color of the gun, but the reaction of the officer. If one is not certain of his target, one should not shoot. Thats one of the 4 primary rules of firearm safety.

The point of having them refinished is because you WANT to. Typically the people who pay for these finishes are competitive shooters and they're putting a custom finish on a highly customized gun.

This really isn't an issue anyway. I mean, seriously, you might have one gun owner in 1,000,000 who may wish to spend ~$500 to have a pistol re-finished in day-glo-green. Your scenario has a probability of happening so close to nil that it isn't worth calculating.

That picture of a bomb doesn't scare me at all. Why should I be afraid of an inert museum piece? Hell, i wouldn't be afraid of it if it were painted white and sitting in a bomb bay with the pre-flight tags removed. If YOU are afraid of it - that is YOUR problem.