Moment Police affronta il cosplaying boy, 16 anni, che trasporta la pistola giocattolo dopo la partita della Premier League

Theres a reason that toy guns are brightly coloured, its to prevent this exact thing

He sprayed the guns black to make them look more real and seems to have achieved that

Sensible cosplayers know you don’t wear shit like that in public. You take it to the con in a bag.

Airsoft will be banned because of idiots like this.

I cosplay and have done for years. This does happen every now and again. Some idiot got arrested over at Canary Wharf while doing a photoshoot because he had a massive replica firearm. Events do have rules that guns must have bright orange tips. Organisers often recommend that weapons be hidden until onsite. 

With the big events, like MCM Comic Con at Excel, the police are well aware of the event. They might check a few weapons, a friend was asked if they could check his gun for the orange tip, but it was a conversation, not being jumped. For smaller conversations, cosplayers should really be displaying some common sense. We usually drive or taxi to conventions when we have weapons. This weekend, we’re walking to one locally, so we’ve swapped from weapon heavy cosplay to Disney cosplay so that people aren’t scared.

The police should probably have been made aware of LAGC and to expect cosplayers which may have prevented the (rightful) actions from unarmed police. But it is on cosplayers to ensure they are public friendly too. Just get dressed there.

“The fake guns were originally brightly coloured, but had been sprayed black to make them look more realistic.”

I mean, in this case “replica firearm” is more accurate than “toy gun”. Dude knew exactly what he was doing.

You can’t expect to walk around a city dressed in tactical gear with realistic looking weapons. Good on the police for acting so promptly without anyone getting hurt tbh.