Quote Originally Posted by Jetfire in the sky View Post
The thing is a Replica won't kill or wound someone like the tonnes of handguns smuggled in illegally in various ways every year
Doesn't matter. My wife works with someone that used to be a bank teller. The bank was robbed one day, they held a gun to her head, actually put the gun against her head! And demanded the money from the desk. While they were doing this, they were taunting her, calling her fat and saying that they'd be doing the world a favor if they shot her. These people were never caught.

After the police reviewed the footage they said that the gun put to her head was probably a replica. Do you think that matters to her? The trauma that she went through and nightmares and therapy sessions (which she still attends, a good 17 years after the event) should just magically have vanished with the realization that it was probably a replica?? Do you think I should tell her to get over it so you can get a Megatron toy a bit easier?

No. We have these laws for a reason. Yes, that reason is the f$&@%d up minority that ruin it for people like us. But to say that because it won't kill or wound anyone, therefore should be legal, is a rather narrow minded and selfish view.