To each his own I guess.

I like naturally occurring patina. I would not pay extra to have it that way.

I am an old fogey, so I am predisposed to expect firearms to be black, blue, or some shade of hard chrome/stainless. (though I am pondering a synthetic rifle stock in camo or some sort of spider web.) There are no functional reasons they can't be some other color though, I guess.

Ridiculous shit for people living in a comic book world.

Just after the pre-worn-out jeans craze mentioned earlier, we had the shirts with bullet holes fad. No, not like the real ones in current day Chicago.

They'd take new shirts (empty) and shoot them with real boolits. Then sell them to the more-money-than-brains crowd.

I would arm my Crimson Guard with them.

Coooobr.....errr take care shoot safe.

Butt fugly!

...but let just ONE scratch get on the operator's "battle-worn" pistol and they would lose their shit.

To me it makes it look like a cheap plastic toy, or what a cosplayer would carry.

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Originally posted by PASig:
To me it makes it look like a cheap plastic toy, or what a cosplayer would carry.

Yeah, you know that came from the world of video gamers.

bad idea. Somebody's going to get shot because they think the robber or other nefarious type has a fake gun. Might get a cop shot for the same reason.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Ridiculous shit for people living in a comic book world.

This.

Is it ridiculous? absolutely, but I don't hate it.

Serious issue: It looks too much like a toy gun. It's something a kid, even one who was taught some level of gun safety, might not recognize as a real gun.

I'm sure it functions and shoots just as well as a normal black gun. But this is just not my personal taste. The color is fugly to start with, and if it is going to have a "distressed" or "battle-worn" look, I want to be the one who put it there. I don't buy new clothing or furniture that is "distressed" or "rustic" either. I want them pristine.

who has hands that big? it's enormous !

I like my two tone, normal size XD a lot ,
for ten years now

NIB never fired.

For those who argue that a fancy gun used in self defense would be sitting in the evidence room forever...

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Originally posted by bendable:
Who has hands that big? it's enormous !

This guy.

-or-

For those who argue that a fancy gun used in self defense would be sitting in the evidence room forever...

Nope, prefer something in puce or mauve...

Reminds me of something Boba Fett would carry.