Culper Precisions, a Utah-based company, announced that they would stop selling a ‘SUPER FUN’ kit that makes a handgun look like a Lego creation (watch above).

Following a Washington Post article about the $600 “BLOCK19” design, the Lego brand demanded that the kit be removed from Culper Precisions’ online store. Culper caved.

The idea of adorning a deadly firearm with colorful children’s toys enraged gun control activists.  The Washington Post provides further context:

When Kristin Song, whose 15-year-old son died in 2018 after accidentally shooting himself, first saw an image of the custom design, she assumed it was a joke, until realizing that it wasn’t.

“How is this even legal?” wondered Song, who has fought to pass legislation that requires gun owners to lock up their weapons if a child might get access to them.

When Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, first saw the image, she thought it was “sick and that children would die.”

According to Moms Demand Action, “Between March and December of 2020, there was a 31 percent increase in unintentional shooting deaths by children of themselves or others, compared to the same time period in 2019.”

But Culper waved away safety concerns, boasting on its website, “There is a satisfaction that can ONLY be found in the shooting sports and this is just one small way to break the rhetoric from Anti-Gun folks and draw attention to the fact that the shooting sports are SUPER FUN! Here’s the thing. Guns are fun. Shooting is fun. 30 rounds full auto is fun.”

After agreeing to stop selling the product, Culper posted on Instagram, “People have the right to customize their property to make it look like whatever they want. It is our business to assist firearms owners in making their guns better reflect them as a person and individual, our pieces speak to the owner of the gun as they have selected those options from a seemingly infinite range of possibilities.”