Story at a glance:
- Block19 was for either Gen 3 or 4 Glock 19.
- The prototype kits could have cost around $600.
- The kits are not available anymore on the company’s website.
A gun manufacturer in Provo, Utah, received backlash from responsible gun owners and a toy manufacturer after one of its “fun” customizable kits looked too similar to a toy.
Culper Precision briefly made a Lego-inspired encasing called the Block19 for either a Gen 3 or 4 Glock 19 gun, according to The New York Post.
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Those who were interested in prototype kits could have spent around $600, specifically between $549 and $765 for the “Lego gun” before the Lego Group, the official toy manufacturer, sent Culper Precision a cease and desist letter.
Culper Precision complied with the order, but its original intention was to support the Second Amendment to “simply be too painful to tread on,” The NY Post reported.
“Here’s one of those childhood dreams coming to life, the Block19 prototype, yes you can actually build Legos onto it,” Culper Precision said on its Instagram page. “We superglued it all together and surprisingly it survived a little over 1,500 rounds in full auto.”
“The idea is that customers who have a Gen 3 or 4 Glock 19 with a black polymer frame and have already purchased an aftermarket blank slide … can send that in and we will return a Block19 to them for around $600,” Culper Precision’s President Brandon Scott, told the website.
Lego was not the only ones disappointed with Culper Precision’s use of multicolored interlocking toys.
Pro-Second Amendment defenders thought it was irresponsible for gun manufacturers to design a weapon to appear like a toy, invalidating gun safety.
“Perfect fodder for the ‘Everytown for Gun Safety’ people,” wrote a gun enthusiast on The Firearm Blog. “Not a help.”
“Making a legitimate firearm appear to be a toy is simply irresponsible,” another comment read. “Just because we can, doesn’t necessarily mean we should.”
The kits are not available anymore on the company’s website by Wednesday after selling less than 20, the Washington Post reported.
An attorney from the Giffords Law Center told the Washington Post no federal law bars guns from being made to look like toys, although it does prohibit toys from being built to look too much like firearms.
In New York state, however, residents cannot hide their firearms in something that looks deceptive, which meant Block19 would likely be banned there, attorney David Pucino commented.
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