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Posted: 4/29/2014 4:05:31 PM EDT
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Im tossing around the idea of building my girlfriend an ar-15. Her favorite color is orange. I wonder... is it illegal to paint the hand guards, butt stock, and other accessories orange? I know that fake toy guns need an orange tip and I wouldn't be doing that at all. There will be no orange on the barrel.
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You could paint it bright pink with chartreuse polka dots if you wanted to. Toy guns may have a requirement to paint the muzzle orange, but no law I know of requires that real gun muzzles be NOT painted orange (or any other color, or no color at all).
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Shouldn't be a problem... |
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Quoted: You could paint it bright pink with chartreuse polka dots if you wanted to. Toy guns may have a requirement to paint the muzzle orange, but no law I know of requires that real gun muzzles be NOT painted orange (or any other color, or no color at all). Quoted: You could paint it bright pink with chartreuse polka dots if you wanted to. Toy guns may have a requirement to paint the muzzle orange, but no law I know of requires that real gun muzzles be NOT painted orange (or any other color, or no color at all). Quoted: Shouldn't be a problem... Fred's correct. However, I will point out that training firearms (plastic lookalikes) are a solid color, usually blue, orange, or red (Ref: http://www.galls.com/training-guns) Thus, it may not be prudent to paint the entire damn rifle orange, lest it be mistaken for an inert training gun. But there are no laws to my knowledge concerning this. Otherwise, Orange away my friend... If you want some orange mags, wander over to the refinishing forum as they have some threads dealing with using Rit clothes dye to dye AR furniture. Here's a thread from another forum that features some unusual paint schemes. Most of the way down the page there are a couple orange AR's. http://www.ar15chatterbox.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7918 Also, a few folks have done yellow AR's made to look like Dewalt tools (google Dewalt AR15); that thread above has a Milwaukee Tools AR. You could do a Black & Decker or Worx build as they are orange brands. Your girlfriend gets an AR and you get a new power tool. That's a win/win in my book.  |
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Fred's correct. However, I will point out that training firearms (plastic lookalikes) are a solid color, usually blue, orange, or red (Ref: http://www.galls.com/training-guns) Thus, it may not be prudent to paint the entire damn rifle orange, lest it be mistaken for an inert training gun. But there are no laws to my knowledge concerning this. Otherwise, Orange away my friend... If you want some orange mags, wander over to the refinishing forum as they have some threads dealing with using Rit clothes dye to dye AR furniture. Here's a thread from another forum that features some unusual paint schemes. Most of the way down the page there are a couple orange AR's. http://www.ar15chatterbox.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7918 Also, a few folks have done yellow AR's made to look like Dewalt tools (google Dewalt AR15); that thread above has a Milwaukee Tools AR. You could do a Black & Decker or Worx build as they are orange brands. Your girlfriend gets an AR and you get a new power tool. That's a win/win in my book.
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You could paint it bright pink with chartreuse polka dots if you wanted to. Toy guns may have a requirement to paint the muzzle orange, but no law I know of requires that real gun muzzles be NOT painted orange (or any other color, or no color at all). Quoted:
Shouldn't be a problem... Fred's correct. However, I will point out that training firearms (plastic lookalikes) are a solid color, usually blue, orange, or red (Ref: http://www.galls.com/training-guns) Thus, it may not be prudent to paint the entire damn rifle orange, lest it be mistaken for an inert training gun. But there are no laws to my knowledge concerning this. Otherwise, Orange away my friend... If you want some orange mags, wander over to the refinishing forum as they have some threads dealing with using Rit clothes dye to dye AR furniture. Here's a thread from another forum that features some unusual paint schemes. Most of the way down the page there are a couple orange AR's. http://www.ar15chatterbox.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7918 Also, a few folks have done yellow AR's made to look like Dewalt tools (google Dewalt AR15); that thread above has a Milwaukee Tools AR. You could do a Black & Decker or Worx build as they are orange brands. Your girlfriend gets an AR and you get a new power tool. That's a win/win in my book.
^ while I agree... but if someone can't tell the difference between an inert training rifle and the real deal.. probably shouldn't be around firearms lol |
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