October 28, 2003

By: Mark Harris
Website: http://www.paintball-guns-n-equipment.com

Attorney General warns of dangers of realistic looking fake guns and cautions about the paintball gun sale procedures

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today warned Connecticut residents about the danger of carrying realistic looking paintball firearms or other facsimile firearms, after Shelton police confiscated a realistic looking paintball gun from a local youth.

"These look-alike guns can result in real bloodshed. There is nothing imaginary or imitation about the casualties they can cause," Blumenthal said. "In a dimly lit hallway or alley, or partially hidden in a pocket, they are all too easily mistaken for the real thing."

While there is no state law against the sale of realistic looking paintball guns, federal law requires an orange cap or marking on the front face of "look-alike firearms." Blumenthal cautioned residents against taking the guns the paintball arenas to the streets and neighborhoods.

"They are guns that can provoke real gunfire, not just play paintball fire," Blumenthal said. "We must be more vigilant about these 'look-alike' firearms whose ultimate victims all too often are children."

Earlier this month Blumenthal secured a commitment from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to prohibit the sales of cigarette lighters that look like firearms and fail to meet applicable federal standards. A Hartford youth was shot and killed two years ago by a police officer who mistook the boy's lighter, a facsimile firearm, for a real weapon.

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