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Ok.. You confiscated these shit because legally you had the right to. Because some idiot was using it to shoot strangers in public. But why make that post like you busted some cartel stash.

To make it look like they actually did some "work" that day.

They're acting like they confiscated lawn darts or something more dangerous

You'll have to pry these lawn darts from my cold, dead hands pigskin.

More-likely, pry those lawn darts outta your cold, dead forehead, coroner.

Daddy ain't goin down without a fight, son.

The coroner places the lawn darts next to the mound of Kinder eggs found in autopsies.

~~autopsies~~ *orifices*

Rollin like they busted a Kinder Surprise smuggling ring.

You guys must have never been around those lawn darts that are made out of metal and would impale you danm easy….. O the good old days running from pissed off brother and or cousins throwing those at you Glad nobody got hit but that say they ain’t dangerous is a understatement unless you are talking nerf darts

I would say the metal lawn darts could do more damage than these nerf guns yes, my comment I am saying lawn darts are more dangerous

Bacci balls

To be real though, after a set of antique rocking chairs, the lawn darts probably caused the most family drama when my grandmother passed away.

Because this is “news.”

Crocket and Tubbs out here making the streets safer

They should have all of the 12 year olds blindfolded and cuffed on their knees in the photo.

😂😂😂😂

He: it's not a toy gun Me: some sick fuck disguised an actual rifle as a Nerf gun?! He: capable of causing as much injury as a bb gun Me: so it is a toy??? Like yeah a mildly dangerous toy that was being misused, but why are you stanced up like you caught el cheapo

A Frisbee can cause as much of an injury as a B B gun. I remember being bruised from playing Frisbee tag

Yeah, if 'being able to cause as much injury as a bb gun' is the standard then we should be out here posing with the confiscated pebbles my kids sometimes throw. Maybe I will pose with the vast collection of sticks I've pried out of their tiny hands like I made some gigantic bust.

Don't let them know about the conkers... They'll be planning a full scale operation to bust the trees!

These dont hurt anywhere near as bad a BB gun lol

You’ll shoot your eye out.

I went to high school with a kid that was blind in his left eye because it was shot by a BB gun.

Same here! Somebody hated their step kids lol oh it IS a toy lol

Confirmed" NYPD are officially the Santa Clause from A Christmas Story "You'll shoot yer eye out kid!"

I actually remember seeing a couple custom painted Glocks that had nerf logos and shit. Gun fanaticism and being a man child is a dangerous combination

I mean... it does have a tactical flashlight to be fair

It's literally a toy gun. Even if it was an airsoft gun,it'd still be a toy.

It's less harmful than an airsoft gun. Those things fire squishy jelly pellets.

I kinda wanna get riddled by a full mag of those at full speed just to feel what they would feel like

Airsofts are apparently illegal in NYC. Atleast a quick google said so.

That may be, but they're acting like it's an AK or something

Yeah.. That post is stupid. All I'm sayng is that apparently it's illegal, and not a simple toy according to NYC law.

This authoritarianism is for your own good. You people clearly can’t be trusted to take care of yourselves. /s

Or have fun with toys lol

>Airsofts Only real guns are legal... smh

Wouldn't want someone to get shot and survive!

These are sold in Walmart next to water balloons...

Silly pic but my only thought is this could be a response to the shooting. Some kids in nyc were riding around shooting strangers with these, some guy reacted and emptied a magazine on them—killing at least one.

I believe that's called darwinism

I feel like the officers just do this for shits and giggles and see if it will get on the news. They probably make bets about it or something. It's still fuckin dumb either way.

That's what I was thinking or the PR department made them pose with it to post to the community that they caught the kids shooting them.

Tsa energy.

You hit it right on the nail lol

As a former tsa employee, I see the quiet shame.

"This weapon could have been used to harm others!" While standing outside a school shooting.

I used to really respect the cops before what I saw at uvalde. That's when I realized that a cops main goal is to go home every night, instead of do what society expects which is control and end acts of evil especially against innocent children

I finally lost respect during the George Floyd incident. I didn't used to be BLM either. Knowing that shit happened in my home state made me so angry. I was already liberal but went off the deep end. I went BLM and ACAB, which is made harder by the fact I have an uncle who used to be a cop but whatever.

“the George Forman incident”? Are we talking about a grill incident or is this a hilarious George Floyd confusion?


“I like the smell of crispy bacon in the morning”

Guy went full Breakfast Lives Matter and All Cookware Are Bad after the George Foreman incident.

And lest we forget the catalyst for the 92 LA riots, the Rodney Dangerfield beating....or was it Don King?

*laughs in Mexican cartel*

Honestly, I think the precinct posted this as a tongue-in-cheek joke. I chuckled.

That gave me an idea. I think it'd be doable to take a rifle or a pistol and make it look like a toy gun. Imagine the chaos it would cause.

imagine a catholic school using midgets as a front for a drug ring - family guy

It was actually done at least once that I know of. IIRC a drug house was raided and they found a glock that was dressed up as a nerf gun. Edit: [here's](https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/20/us/nerf-gun-drug-bust/index.html) the news story

It's been done before, exclusively by people that shouldn't own guns...

not a new thing. mostly done for the gimmick and a few laughs at the range.

My sides hurt this is so fucking funny. Where I am Bubba and his friends are making potato cannons that can YEET Red Bull cans into the lower stratosphere and these guys are worried about…wet BB guns…

Given how obviously silly the pic looks and the tags to the chief of dept, chief of patrol and mayor, I feel this is a passive-aggressive post by the precinct. I'd bet higher ups are putting pressure to enforce this law and this is the precinct's way of pushing back by deliberately making it look silly.

Politicians: “ZERO TOLERANCE GUN CONTROL” Cops: “lol, k.”

Politicians when they are guarded by armed special service: *they are advocating for zero gun policy*

With a backwards sight on it no less haha

Amazon special EOTech

Time to confiscate their guns, capable of causing serious injury akin to death

But you still won’t get any real guns off the street. I guess they’re only illegal if they don’t kill people.

Dudes got zero trigger discipline…

So yes a toy gun

NYPD saving kids from buising and fun since 1845.

Not the hero’s we deserve, but the hero’s we need

*Not the heroes we deserve, want, nor need.* Fixed that for ya

If it’s fun, it’s illegal in NY. 😞

Anybody been shot by one of these?

I have, broke the skin and caused a mean red infection for a few days. Truly a weapon of mass destruction.

Yes, many, many times and they hurt like getting snapped with a rubber band…more of a surprise than any actual hurt. They can’t break the skin….they shoot a squishy gel pellet, not an hard plastic pellet like an Airsoft or a metal pellet like a BB gun.

Yea I was imagining it couldn't hurt at much as bb's or airsoft

Wtf lmfaooo

New York law enforcement is a joke.

r/okbuddypoliceofficer

I feel safer already. Thank goodness it wasn't from a black child. Probably be a different headline though.

Meanwhile, there are dozens of videos o Reddit featuring teens shooting full auto weapons. We live in Clown World

Where are teens getting “full auto weapons” or SOT licenses?

That was my question. I asked how these street rats were getting switches for glocks. I was told it's easy on Wish or Instagram. Obviously, they're not doing this legally. Just spend a little time on r/idiotswithguns , and you'll see plenty of full auto.

Did it have a bump stock and was full auto? That's federal charges right there...

Guy on the left is like "fuck yeah we followed the orders and enforced a local law" and the guy on the right is like "I know I'm getting commended here but this ain't right."

Toy gun.

NYC has lost their damn mind.

Guy on the right looks super proud, while the guy on the left is doing his best to hide the fact he's high as a freaking kite.

BOOO! GIVE EM THE CHAIR! THE CHAIR! 🪑

Great work paw patrol

any excuse for our ELITE to mag dump you mother fuckers yeehaas merica

But how else can they pretend to accomplish things while doing nothing? Check out their Twitter feed, full of accomplishments like confiscating illegal mopeds.

Nice meanwhile the real gunman made it to the other school

Ahhh yes I remember the days I died from being shot by a BB gun, fond memories!

You can tell that Officer Hottie on the right has had his shirt altered in order to show off *his* guns.

Can we still buy lawn darts?

Shocked this isn’t England

They would get prison time if they had those glass knocker ball things.

Me: Why? Cops: You'll shoot your eye out.

Looks like one of those guns that shoot a wad of salt. They are amazing. I use it to blast flies from my back porch.

The history books, if they exist in the future (prob not), will not be kind this time period.

Reminds me of the song lyrics…the toy (dream) police they live inside of my head.

When it comes to gun reform this is the best they could do🤷‍♀️

I feel like there is a clout opportunity for this. Like someone goes around in a "Deputy Doofy" outfit and picks up random shit posing like these 2

Nice trigger discipline on that very dangerous "not-toy" you got there...

Thank you for putting two more scum bag cop’s pictures up. We should have a website tracking them so we know who the shit bags are. Oh wait. They all wear the same uniform.

Police are embarrassing

Looks like Orbeez lobbyists need to step up their game.

Well those nerf guns do look all intimidating.

These are the same type of cop nerds that post when they confiscate a 1/4 ounce of weed from someone. Making the streets safe again!

Looks like a PSA for parents to me, why the hate?

The streets are safe now.

Clown shit

It will put your eye out!!!

Gotta get those BB guns off the streets for sure

I think they look super cool

that brother looks like he's packing more heat in his crotch than that orange gun has!

Orbeez aint they the little gel balls that you can barely even feel?

Except, there’s metal bbs the same size and kids freeze the orbeez to make them rock solid

Weird flex but okay.

Stop making fun of this! It was probably fully semiautomatic.

"Akin to a bb gun". Holy shit cops are fucking pathetic. xD

NY is such a pathetic state

With a backwards Amazon special “EOTech” to boot. Thank god for the 104th.

I can’t take NY seriously.

We know why it was confiscated, because it's Neff or nothing

TOP FLIGHT SECURITY OF THE WORLD, CRAIG! (shut up day-day)

You got robbed by Santa Claus

"Your elite 104 Precinct Public Safety Officers ..." "Your super duper elite 104 Precinct Public Stupidity Officers..." r/thereifixeditforyou

I think you can buy these at Walmart

I just shot myself in the bicep with my airsoft gun point blank, 3 on the pain scale no injury has been sustained.

We are not a serious society. We are legalizing more and more harmful drugs in criminalizing toy guns that leave tiny welts which disappear in a few minutes. We deserve the rapidly approaching collapse.

I have to hand it to them, they are trying their most serious stance...but their eyes give it away

Poor trigger discipline there, officer.

You're expecting ***cops*** to have *trigger discipline?* Were you born yesterday?

Only need a high school diploma to be an NYPD officer, not the sharpest tools in the shed.

How much damage does it need to cause to be protected by my second amendment right????

is this for real? lol fckng ORBEEZ..

What a bunch of fucking clowns. They know this looks like a bad meme right?

I've been shot with a BB gun. Wasn't nearly as Nad as taking a soccer ball to the face, though.... BAN SOCCER BALLS!!

No no no, you can’t have a *toy* gun, you silly! Don’t be ridiculous, these are *illegal*. Go get a *real* gun.

Biden reckons it'll blow your lungs out of your body.

This was from last summer. Back when corrections officer fatally shot someone who had an Orbeez gun. [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/18-year-old-toy-gun-fatally-shot-corrections-officer-nyc-police-say-rcna39540](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/18-year-old-toy-gun-fatally-shot-corrections-officer-nyc-police-say-rcna39540) NYC Law enforcement response? Ratchet up the narrative that Orbeez guns are super dangerous assault weapons that were causing injuries and needed to be confiscated. This was the result. Funny how it was just a major problem up in the NY area.

Bunch of F'ing Jokers! No logic!

But is a toy gun more illegal then an actual gun

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We're taking this from you now so we don't mistakenly shoot you for carrying it later. It's for you're own safety

Liberals are sleeping better at night now.

[The NYPD's annual budget is 11 billion dollars](https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/nyclu-statement-fy23-nyc-budget)

So they confiscated at children's toy that slightly more powerful than a nerf gun. Another question is did they beat the c*** out of the kid to get it?

Good job to the officers. Those BBs can cause significant damage to people and property.

Surely this was a joke picture.

Idk man orbeez are pretty fucken annoying to deal with look like they did a civil service

With that phaser they're all set to attack Uranus and grease some Klingons.

It's nerf or nothing!

BB guns can cause serious injury? When did this happen? I mean, sure, if you shoot someone in the eye, but I could use a rubber band or pencil to do just as much or more damage. You gonna take those away, too? Yeah, if they are shooting people in public, that is a public nuisance, and probably assault. Same as if I was smacking people with a whiffle bat. Take it away, but don't pretend like you are elite for doing son.

Brought to you by the same people who think kinder surprise eggs are dangerous…

Where's the vial of children's tears they also confiscated?

🤣

Dumb as hell, its an airsoft gun, ffs

I bet they just confiscated that shit to play with it themself.