Reply #36: While I think making girls' guns in foo-foo colors is a bit silly... [View All]

[benEzra]

these guns aren't marketed to children. They are marketed to parents who want to teach their kids gun safety and marksmanship. They are advertised to adults, and sold in adult venues like gun stores and the sporting goods counter at your local big-box store, not in the toy department.

Unlike cigarettes, guns are EXPENSIVE (a Cricket single-shot .22 bolt-action rifle is $100-$200, as I recall). You also have to be 18, show a state-issued ID, pass an FBI background check in order to buy one from a gun store, and usually have to be 18 to buy ammunition.

Show me a second-grader with a valid driver's license who can fill out a BATFE Form 4473, pass an NCIS records check, and plunk down $150 for a single-shot .22 rifle...