Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
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Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
So apparently Amazon is yanking Nerf and similar guns from their catalog like crazy and citing NY Law 873 as a reason... I know of at least a dozen different people that have posted they have received such notices for a variety of Amazon listings
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Re: Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
Looks like they do not meet (b) and (c):
"§ 871. Definitions. 1. "Firearm" as used in this section shall have
the same meaning as that term is defined by subdivision three of section
265.00 of the penal law and shall include machine guns, rifles and
shotguns as those terms are defined by subdivisions one, eleven and
twelve, respectively, of section 265.00 of the penal law.
2. "Imitation weapon" means any device or object made of plastic,
wood, metal or any other material which substantially duplicates or can
reasonably be perceived to be an actual firearm, air rifle, pellet gun,
or "B-B" gun; unless such imitation weapon (a) is colored other than
black, blue, silver or aluminum, (b) is marked with a non-removable
orange stripe which is at least one inch in width and runs the entire
length of the barrel on each side and the front end of the barrel, and
(c) has a barrel at least one inch in diameter that is closed for a
distance of not less than one-half inch from the front-end of its barrel
with the same material of which the imitation weapon is made. "Imitation
weapon" does not include any nonfiring replica of an antique firearm,
the original of which was designed, manufactured and produced prior to
eighteen hundred ninety-eight."
"§ 871. Definitions. 1. "Firearm" as used in this section shall have
the same meaning as that term is defined by subdivision three of section
265.00 of the penal law and shall include machine guns, rifles and
shotguns as those terms are defined by subdivisions one, eleven and
twelve, respectively, of section 265.00 of the penal law.
2. "Imitation weapon" means any device or object made of plastic,
wood, metal or any other material which substantially duplicates or can
reasonably be perceived to be an actual firearm, air rifle, pellet gun,
or "B-B" gun; unless such imitation weapon (a) is colored other than
black, blue, silver or aluminum, (b) is marked with a non-removable
orange stripe which is at least one inch in width and runs the entire
length of the barrel on each side and the front end of the barrel, and
(c) has a barrel at least one inch in diameter that is closed for a
distance of not less than one-half inch from the front-end of its barrel
with the same material of which the imitation weapon is made. "Imitation
weapon" does not include any nonfiring replica of an antique firearm,
the original of which was designed, manufactured and produced prior to
eighteen hundred ninety-eight."
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Re: Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
Damn! That means that if I decide to give my grandson in Hawaii a nerf gun for his birthday, I'll have to hand-carry it.
Curse the luck!!!
Curse the luck!!!
But there ain't many troubles that a man caint fix, with seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six."
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Re: Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
The details are still emerging but it looks like they are only restricting 3rd party sellers like myself from doing it, that Amazon will still carry them but it will only be Amazon owned inventory.First Shirt wrote:Damn! That means that if I decide to give my grandson in Hawaii a nerf gun for his birthday, I'll have to hand-carry it.
Curse the luck!!!
I am also seeing reports of it happening to things like Super Soakers and even Nintendo Duck Hunt guns
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Re: Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
Super Soakers??? You're kidding, right??
I mean, they're bright orange and yellow and neon green! How could anyone with two functioning brain cells mistake them for a real gun??
Never mind, the answer was in the question.
I mean, they're bright orange and yellow and neon green! How could anyone with two functioning brain cells mistake them for a real gun??
Never mind, the answer was in the question.
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Re: Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
My youngest son and I were just shopping for cap guns in the internet and the first site we visited stated they would not ship to NY b/c their products were illegal there.
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Re: Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
Stupid liberals want to ban unapproved fun.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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Re: Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
Heh. I wasn't allowed to have Nerf guns as a kid, so I bought one as an adult.
The experience was profoundly disappointing.
The experience was profoundly disappointing.
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Smart lawyers are begi d this in fear of an lawsuitJered wrote:Stupid liberals want to ban unapproved fun.
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Re: Nerf Guns Being Yanked From Amazon Catalog
How do you think the laws came to be in the first place? Liberals really do *not* like Badfun. Never have.HTRN wrote:Smart lawyers are begi d this in fear of an lawsuitJered wrote:Stupid liberals want to ban unapproved fun.
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