The Illinois Council against Handgun Violence is out with a new ad that is 100% dishonest bullshit.

According to their website TeddyGun.com, toys are regulated and guns are not, and that’s not right.

So to be they try to make a point by being sardonic and make an unregulated toy by making into a gun.

Except they missed the whole point.  Either they are monumentally stupid.  Deliberately lying through their teeth.  Or both.

Both.

This is a screen shot from their site.

The only regulation they lost for guns is a Type 07 FFL.

That’s not a simple regulation to get.  Compliance is strict, trust me.  Going through an ATF audit, is like having a paperwork colonoscopy without anesthesia, and if they find a polyp, you go to prison.

It’s not just one simple regulation.

Then they go to Teddy Bears.  they start with ASTM testing.  ASTM simply sets testing standards.  They are not a legal regulatory body. There is an organization that sets the test standards for firearms.  I have helped write test standards for them.  It is called SAAMI – The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute.

Next, they go to to the Code of Federal Regulations for toys.  Many can be found here.

There is where this becomes true  disingenuous bullshit.  Guns and toys are different.

Guns are designed to kill.  That is what their indented use is.  Hunting, self defense, military, etc., guns kill.  That is no secret.  When a user points a gun at a living thing and pulls the trigger, the expectation is that the living thing will stop living thereafter.

That’s not the intent when it comes to a teddy bear.  You don’t hand a teddy bear to a child and expect it to die.  Quite the opposite.  There is an expectation that the teddy bear is safe to use.  It is not a killing machine.

So various regulatory bodies have set forth rules to establish how much force it takes to rip the eye off a stuffed toy to prevent a toddler from biting one off and choking on it.  Fire retardant standards have been established so that teddy bears don’t catch on fire.  Regulations against sharp corners, lead contamination, etc., all exist for safety reasons.

Nobody in their right mind would hand a loaded gun to a child to play with and expect a safe outcome.  Nobody expect to hand a teddy bear to a child and expect to toy to kill the child.

That is the difference.

That is not to say liability does not attach to guns.  It does, when they MALFUNCTION causing them to kill when the user does not intent for that to happen.  Such as in the lawsuit against Remington for the 700 trigger, which resulted in an eventual recall and settlement.

These people have been pushing the idea for a while that gun makers and gun dealers should be held liable for the MISUSE of their products.

This is a perversion of the law and common sense.

It makes me hope the next time somebody is killed with a baseball bat during a home invasion, the family of the deceased sues the shit out of Wilson Sporting Goods.

Ultimately, this reflects on the whole mentality of the Liberal anti.  They hate guns and love regulations and want nothing more than to eat away at gun rights with regulations.

The irony here is, I’m pretty sure that if they really made a teddy gun, hoping to avoid regulations, they illegally manufactured an illegal Title II AOW “disguised firearm” and committed a felony.