MP-05 Megatron seized by Australian Customs

Silverbolt wrote:You know what I find most insulting that I can go out and buy a legitimate hand gun with less trouble then I can a unmodified toy that is meant for collectors.

Nicely put!

oh bloody hell

Silverbolt wrote:You know what I find most insulting that I can go out and buy a legitimate hand gun with less trouble then I can a unmodified toy that is meant for collectors. Heck I can probably find one for cheaper at that even.

Where? Have you ever tried to buy a handgun? If you walk into a store that has an MP-5, you can buy it instantly with no fuss by handing money to a register jockey. If you buy it on the internet, you have to wait for it to be shipped to you. And, God forbid, you MIGHT just have to suffer the thought that someone besides the hundreds of people at the factory might touch your figure to apply an easily removed orange cap.

To buy a legitimate handgun, you need to fill out an application; wait three to seven days (depending on the state law, all the while allowing hundreds of government workers (and we all know if anyone hires the most honest, best and brightest employees, it's our government)) before you can even pick up the item, IF you can get it; apply for a concealed carry permit to take it in your car with you; buy trigger locks and a gun safe so that your idiot kid* doesn't kill little Timmy when he comes over to play.

But yeah, it's so much easier to get a legitimate real gun than a toy one.

*Idiot kid is an expression and does not directly desribe the offspring of anyone on this or any other website.

^ 'cos it is

Good thing I don't live in Australia. I do however, live in the US. No prob though, I easily owned that stupid cap.

Jon Potter needs to lay off the Foster's

And yet, criminals get their hands on automatic weapons easier than collectors get their hands on a toy. Oh the irony.

If I could go back to the 80's when that kid aimed a Megatron at the cops, I'd punch him in the face before he could do it.

And yet Transfigure Toys had no problems getting their shipment through and then forwarding one on to me in another state.

Simple fact is this. Customs seems to be doing different things from state to state. Some are seizing, some aren't.

Also they did a good photoshop on that article making it look like they were the same size.
Kids still point toy guns at cops. http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_3401319&cid=0

Actually Silverbolt, in Australia it is much harder to go out and get a real gun than it is in the US, it takes literally weeks, and you need to fill out a multitude of forms for different areas of government, you need to have it registerd, and own a license, and pay up to thousands of dollars before you can legally get one. This is because of a Shooting Rampage in Tasmania that occurred just over 11 years ago. Guns laws were severely tightened, as a direct result.

Anyone else notice at how they have shrunk the image of MP Megatron down so it looks comparable in size to the actual Handgun? I expect no less but this kind of dodgy reporting from NineMSN.