Ms. Holtzman, 59, told the police that as she approached the gate to her brownstone she was confronted by a man with a silver-colored gun who demanded her wallet.
The man, who appeared to be in his mid-20s, walked to a gate of the White House holding a silver-colored gun pointed at the ground, said Brett Polivka, a 26-year-old visitor from Texas who was near the south side of the White House.
Many of these brightly-colored guns contain features similar to popular assault weapons, such as automatic shooting of foam darts and ammunition clips.
Under current city law, stores are allowed to sell only brightly colored toy guns.
If you buy one of those neon colored cap guns, cut off all of the unreal looking parts.
The California legislative struggle was rooted in a December 2010 incident in Los Angeles, where a 13-year-old was shot and paralyzed by a city police officer when officers investigating burglaries came across three youths playing with dark-colored pellet guns in a street at twilight.
She emphasized that traditions embodied by companies like Colt inevitably colored debates over gun control in Connecticut.
Mr. T. says that the old black Tuxedo must go to be replaced by the gun metal colored one.
The aphorism, borrowed from the science-fiction author Robert Heinlein, is the inspiration for one of the N.R.A.'s most popular T-shirts, which bears the word "COEXIST," spelled out in brightly colored ammo cartridges and guns.
