My Little Pony Carbine, Care Bear Body Armor, and other fictional cute materiel

Posted by Cory Doctorow, October 22, 2007 10:45 PM | permalink

GlamGuns, the same pranksters who brought us the Hello Kitty AK-47, have a whole line of glamorous notional militaria, including Care Bear Body Armor and a My Little Pony M4A1 Carbine. (via Threat Level)

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#1 posted by Calton

, October 23, 2007 12:12 AM

Original idea: maybe funny.
Ringing the changes: lazy recycling of the same joke.

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#2 posted by Jeremaih Blatz

, October 23, 2007 12:13 AM

THeir photoshop skills are better than mine, but I was first :-)
http://www.jeremiahblatz.com/personal/random/mlwp.jpg

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#3 posted by TheNag , October 23, 2007 4:48 AM

At last - guns for little girls!

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#4 posted by Calton

, October 23, 2007 6:18 AM

Grrrr, sorry for the double posting.

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#5 posted by toadliquor , October 23, 2007 6:36 AM

The above examples may be fake, but to my delight, such things do exist.

I've seen pictures of custom AR-15 carbines set up for small girls and their owners posing with them. They had 22lr conversion uppers (lower recoil) and cool paint schemes. One was purple with pink hearts and the other was basic black but with pink furniture. I could post a link to the pics, but I really don't want to hose the server hosting them.

The girls looked really happy with their rifles. I feel certain that they are great shots.