Update dropped about the x5.7
Looks like they slimmed it down a little bit and added an Ambi safety.
I’m super stoked.
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Call me an old fuddy duddy but I I only own black, fde, od and a few types of cammo. I just don’t like my weapons saying please look at me. I want my weaons to say nothing to see here move along.
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I’m with you. I think those fancy colors are nothing but dangerous because they stand out and they make weapons look like toys.
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I mean I don’t have kids. I think there are plenty of people out there that don’t and if they want a lime green or pink pistol then I don’t see why that’s really a problem.
I don’t really care for an argument, but I’m just going to say this: saying that you don’t see how having actual guns strongly resemble toys in appearance can be a problem is ridiculous. It’s very easy to understand why it can be, safety is always everyone’s #1 thing with firearms and you’re introducing a potentially very dangerous variable in aesthetics for literally zero functional benefit.
“I don’t have kids” isn’t a great argument. If someone said “I don’t need a gun safe or lock box because I don’t have kids”, I’d take similar issue with that stance. There are logical steps you can take to prevent incidents in general, and having a bright pink or lime green gun is doing the opposite of that.
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I agree with the safety standpoint. Even more so with some handguns with cartoon figures like hello kitty on them. It is up to each individual to purchase what they want. I am not critizing people who choose to buy bright colors. My personal opinion is I don’t want one because you limit what you can realistically do with it. Are you going to carry it concealed or as a edc? I sure hope not. With today’s video games and kids learning about military style weapons on video games at an early age it desensitized them to a certain extent about the dangers of real firearms. Now throw in a brightly colored firearm that can look like a toy isn’t what I choose to do.
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A gun being a certain color doesn’t inherently make it more or less dangerous.
I don’t have kids is a great argument actually. I can take my pink or lime green gun to the shooting range and it goes boom just as good as any other color. There are no children in my life that are going to somehow mistake one for a toy.
As far as someone thinking it’s a toy when you “need to use it”… if you “need to use it” then they know it’s not a toy as soon as you pull the trigger right? I mean we’re not brandishing firearms here, so the only realistic concern would be open carry, which I don’t think most folks do outside of hunting or training.
Your safe storage argument is a strawman. Safe storage prevents theft, not just kids getting at them.
To follow on with 1911, I do agree that putting cartoon characters on guns is generally a poor idea, but I think that’s a step much further than having a green gun.
I disagree on every count, and putting a cartoon character on a gun is exactly the same as coloring it pink, baby blue, or lime green. It’s something that draws unwanted and unnecessary attention toward it and that children are conditioned to be attracted toward.
Saying that but defending your color argument is hypocritical. It can’t be one or the other, you either think it’s a poor idea or you don’t.
Make excuses if you want a bright colored gun all you want, but it’s a bad idea from a safety standpoint (the one that matters the most) all the same.
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I think there’s nuance in life, but whatever makes you happy.
Novel idea…dont paint the muzzle orange and otherwise do as you please.
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I’m a to each their own kinda guy on this one. I have grandbabies and yes there are firearms in the house not locked when they are here. All placed out of reach and since the time they could walk they all have been thoroughly taught about the orange muzzle mentioned previously.
You mean bright orange means toy?
Got it.
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On the muzzle tip it is supposed to. But even some gangs now use orange on the tip so it cant be universally taken to mean toy.
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it’s true, by intent they will paint the tip orange to cause even a slight hesitation
I know, I was using that to reinforce my point that it gets drilled into kids’ heads that bright standout color = toy. Kids aren’t dumb, but most of their stuff is bright blue, pink, orange, bright green, etc. You teach them that bright orange tip = ok, it’s not much of a stretch for them to assume the others are too.
But we’ve gone far enough on this and everyone’s not going to agree.
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i still am going to cerakote many firearms to look like toys, just saying it’s true
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oh i am too.. im not sure how i feel about the glock sights instead of the flip up’s and i had hoped for a 50 round magazine instead ofa 40.. 50 just makes more sense to me because thats how many rounds are in a box of their ammo, and it would be so much easier to keep track of in the quantitys of 50.
I like the slimming down, and the auto deploying stock, and the radian charging handle as welle. it really looks like its gonna be a monster of a hit. I wonder if they’re planning on allowing other calibers into its chassis, things lsike making it dagger mag compatitble, they can then give it 9mm, and if they expand dagger lineup to .45 and 10mm, and then 40s&w you get the point there. i wouldnt put it past them in the future to have been looking at that stuff already.
Fuddy Duddy, i like a good grey on a gun at times.. but i’ll steer away from bright colorings on my guns too.
yeah thats a pretty good general rule there.
are you going to do a pistol to make it look like the Nintendo Duck Hunt Gun?
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Gonna create a new topic. Maybe it should be discussed rather than put a bunch of unrelated posts here. If one of the mods could move the posts over that would help. No bashing, just civil discussion.
i like it… it looks lik someone already moved the posts.