Laser sight warning
Okay. Let me see if I have this straight. This is a FRIKKIN' LASER SIGHT. That I put ON MY Glock .45:
Tell me which is more dangerous
Look, if someone sees the laser dot of my Glock coming at them, getting it in their eye is the LEAST of their worries, because it means that they have been perceived as a grave threat to my being, forced me to make the decision to draw my weapon, and have been targeted by my sidearm. It means that a 230 grain jacketed hollowpoint +P round is going to be entering the general area where that dot just showed up. If there's any eye damage done, it's going to be a result of a GSW, not a class IIIa laser.
Perspective: You no haz it.
That is all.
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That's the way federal regulations work. If the FCC says "all lasers must carry a warning about shining it into a person's eye," then ALL lasers must carry that warning, regardless of their intended use.
Yes, it's stupid. The law is often stupid. That's because the law is written to the lowest common denominator, IQ-wise, and there are some fearfully stupid people in this world.
Wolfwalker beat me to it. The only thing I'd add is that there's a lawyer somewhere who considers this a job well done.
Jay,
The Americans with Disabilities Act says the same thing about all bank ATMs must have braille -- INCLUDEING THE F*CKING DRIVE-UP machines !!!!!11111 If that's not fouled up, I don't know what is.
- Brad
Jay, you won't need a laser anyway, after we all start wearing Federally mandated dayglo orange "DANGER! Carbon Emitter" labels on our foreheads.
I like the Crimson Trace t-shirts that says, "Helping bad guys make informed decisions."
I wonder if somewhere out there you could find some anti-gun twit who would utter the words "Well why didn't you just blind the bad guy with the laser? You didn't have to shoot him!"
Brad: More accurately, I suspect the ADA says that ATMs that blind people might use have to have them.
And it's cheaper and easier to make one standard ATM body with braille than to make special "drive-up only" ones without it and make sure they don't get repurposed later, etc.
Around here, all the ATMs at driveup locations are just normal ATMs in an outdoor box under a roof or set into a building.
(Besides, every drive-up I've ever seen has also been accessible by foot. And then there's the "going in the other way so a blind passenger can use it" angle...)
On the other side, I'd suggest a similar format of sticker that says BULLET APERTURE:
AVOID ALL DIRECT EXPOSURE
CLASS 1 FFL PRODUCT
>800fps
Diameter: .451-452in
WV: fetro: (adj): Some really old-school shit. e.g. "Man, that Colt SAA is fetro!"
I think they're saying, "Don't try a head shot Buffalo Bill, go center of mass."
Seen on a laser pen: "Do not look at laser with remaining eye."
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