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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1538943.htmlSuper Soaker Shotgun: Randy Smith Converted Water Gun Into 20-Gauge Weapon, Cops Say
This is hardly child's play: Randy Smith, 54, was reportedly found walking the streets of Fresno, Calif., Saturday night, carrying a Super Soaker that he had converted into a 20-gauge shotgun, according to KMPH.
Normally cops wouldn't raise an eyebrow at someone waltzing around town with one of a high-powered plastic water guns, but an uptick in toy-to-gun conversions made officers more suspicious of Smith.
They stopped him and found that he had indeed fashioned a powerful weapon out of $30 worth of parts.
BAN Supersoakers!! For the children.
What kind of ****ing criminal would allow himself to be seen with a squirt gun?!
The most serious (and therefore dangerous) one.Originally Posted by Fargin
I get the feeling that anybody over the age of 5 who's walking around with a super soaker this summer is going to be looked at with suspicion. It's already bad enough with toy guns. I remember back in the day when me and all the neighborhood kids could play Cowboys and Indian's in the front yard with wooden toy rifles and capguns and stuff. My, how things have changed.
Yeah, there has been newspaper headlines, when some kid shot another with a bb-gun (A KID SHOT HIS FRIEND... with a bb-gun it is revealed in the text). We fought wars in the forest with air rifles back in the days...
I remember as a kid being able to walk to the end of the street where a big field was with my pellet gun. Or going to the park and setting up a target for my bow. If I made a tennis ball cannon today somebody would probably call the feds and you'd see headlines about someone fashioning a "large pipe bomb" out of house hold items.
Yeah. I miss that. There used to be a forest-y park near my house where my friends and I could battle it out but they cut down all the trees and turned it into a dog park.We fought wars in the forest with air rifles back in the days...
It really sucks knowing that if I had kids they wouldn't be able to play with the same toys I used to as a child. Or at least not without attracting unwanted attention.I remember as a kid being able to walk to the end of the street where a big field was with my pellet gun. Or going to the park and setting up a target for my bow. If I made a tennis ball cannon today somebody would probably call the feds and you'd see headlines about someone fashioning a "large pipe bomb" out of house hold items.
Exactly. A normal gun would be enough to intimidate most adversaries.
A converted water pistol does not offer this option - and in most cases probably is intended for use / in order to sneak by security or whatever or because someone would want a gun but has for example a criminal history that would prevent him from getting one legally I would imagine.
He didnt make one out of a supersoaker, he just covered one up with it
Dang. I'd have loved to see a youtube video of the first genius to turn a supersoaker into shrapnel with a shotgun shell.
Back when I lived in London a few years back some little kids in a nearby forest were playing cops and robbers or something. Toy guns and ski masks. Someone saw it, freaked and called the cops who responded in a big way. It's all fun and games until CO19 and a Met police helicopter show up.
BTW those soaker-guns can spray some really deadly liquids, unmodified. So should be banned anyway!1
Really dangerous for hit and run stuff, the target doest know a deadly weapon is pointed on him and doesnt react properly until the first shot is fired. Also dangerous for cops...
Aw man i was hoping the guy would have changed the pressure inside the tank to make it deadly.
This is quite the let down.
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