Reply #36: I don't understand the lure either...

[krispos42]

I think it's a bad idea to make real guns look like toys, or toy guns to look real. Not so much long guns, but more for handguns.

However, that's my personal opinion on the matter. I don't want a law or anything like that, but I would hope that gun manufacturers limit themselves to the traditional black, silver (nickel-finished or stainless steel), or natural case-hardening for the metal, and black, natural wood, grey, camo, olive drab, or tan colors for the wood, plastic, or synthetic parts of the rest of the gun.

Leave this brightly-colored stuff to the aftermarket gunsmiths. There finishes costs hundred of dollars, and if you have $300 lying around to color your .45 Auto purple-and-white with Minnesota Vikings grip panels, you have enough money to keep your Purple Pride Piece in a child-proof safe.

The more this gets harped on, the more people will do it just to piss you off.