Finger guns are a class 2 look alike gun

[jcoosi]

Stories like this reassures me that we are in a world of insanity.

http://www.guns.com/2014/03/04/ten-year-old-suspended-level-2-lookalike-firearm-used-execution-style-aka-making-gun-finger-video/

[vontar]

Well, let me know if any of the gun grabbers line up to turn in their thumbs.

I am sure they don't want to be in possession of such a device.

[GlockSpock]

The big question is whether or not you get expelled for life if mimicking either automatic or suppressed fire without applicable approval slip.

[cj0e]

Man, this is ridiculous. When I was in elementary school, we brought nerf and waterguns to school for show and tell and for school sponsored days! When it wasn't one of those days everything on the playground could be a gun for cops and robbers/cowboys and indians - everything from a "finger gun" to a stick, to a branch became a gun or a rifle. Heck, if you could tote a big enough limb you were Captain America with a bazooka.

 

One of my favorite games was in PE, coach called it "SCUD". It was loosely based off the gulf war, everyone would be positioned on sides of the gym, seated. The rear line had bike tire inner tubes we used to launch bean bags across at the opposing sides as "scud missiles". Everyone else had either foam balls to throw as shorter range projectiles, or lob as "grenades". Not sure what the object was anymore, since no one ever seemed to be "out". It was general mayhem and a lot of fun.

[Mark@Sea]

Wonder what she'd think of the finger I'm showing now?

[cj0e]

Wonder what she'd think of the finger I'm showing now?

 

Well, if it's like the kid then "she was so upset by his actions that she could neither look at him nor talk to him."

 

Mission accomplished? :rofl:

[Guest TankerHC]

Well if a string can be a mchine gun, damn right your finger and thumb are class 2 lookalike guns. 

 

What do they go for?

 

I have said many time "I'd give my lef _____ to own one of these". Well, I'm ambidextrous.

[whitewolf001]

I was actually assigned 3 days detention for drawing an M16A2 in class when I was in 6th grade, that of course was a week(or so, can't remember, been a minute) after Columbine. Heck man, I didn't care about that, I just loved guns and those uptight nuns talked to my parents to which they got this reaction from my dad. 

Edited March 13, 2014 by whitewolf001

[vontar]

The School Resource Officer here told the other day that if a person took something like a video game controller (that looks like a gun) to school the could actually be charged the same as if they had took a real gun to school.

 

Zero Tolerance is out of control.

 

Zero tolerance is the modern term used the same way as I was only following orders.

 

Zero tolerance removes all responsibility to make decision at a local level and replaces with a predetermined response.  One size does not fit all.

[whitewolf001]

The School Resource Officer here told the other day that if a person took something like a video game controller (that looks like a gun) to school the could actually be charged the same as if they had took a real gun to school.

 

Zero Tolerance is out of control.

 

Zero tolerance is the modern term used the same way as I was only following orders.

 

Zero tolerance removes all responsibility to make decision at a local level and replaces with a predetermined response.  One size does not fit all.

 

Agreed 110%. Pretty sure some Nazi officers tried pulling the same thing...

[vontar]

Careful on Godwin's law although you are correct.

[sigmtnman]

bwahahahahahaha.  The federal school system is a joke.

[dawgdoc]

If a teacher is really that bothered by a finger gun (looks more like a sideways  ASL "L" to me), she shouldn't be teaching.  She obviously has such a fragile psyche, she could snap at any minute.

 

 

OMG! There's a gun in this children's book!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember thinking when I was a kid playing guns this way that we were doing it all wrong--I though the index finger should be curled around an imaginary trigger, rather than be used as the barrel of a gun.  

 

Edited March 13, 2014 by dawgdoc

[vontar]

 

I remember thinking when I was a kid playing guns this way that we were doing it all wrong--I though the index finger should be curled around an imaginary trigger, rather than be used as the barrel of a gun.  

 But that makes a hand grenade when done with your hand.  you lose the barrel.

Edited March 13, 2014 by vontar

[dawgdoc]

 But that makes a hand grenade when done with your hand.  you lose the barrel.

 

I think my imagination was just good enough to visualize the barrel.  Usually we used real fake guns (before the orange tips!).  I had a 1911 style BB gun that would have got me killed if I pointed it at the wrong person.  For hand grenades, we used magnolia cones (those hurt sometimes, to add to the realism).