Antonio Riello's "Ladies Weapons"

As art, I like them. Nice commentary on glam violence. As a cultural phenomeon, it's not too far off.

Rather sexist commentary, though. I've heard a lot more men oohing and aahing over how pretty a gun is.

(There, that should get the ball rolling. )

I don't find those particularly atrtractive. Even IF, and that's a big IF I wanted a designer gun i wouldn't be those, those are just tacky looking.

Perfect for emo-girls!

(About his pistol grips.)
"They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol. "
-Patton

Sad thing is, this is a repost. It floated around here about a year ago, IIRC.

~J

huhhh! so ugly I'm gonna vomit...

What is that flaw where you get noticed more ofter, distinctive style?

I am imagining Kramer from Seinfeld in the white feather fedora and the coat of many colors with a leopard skin AK-97.

Police: Did you see the man who shot you?
Victim: Yeah, he was dressed like a 1970's pimp on acid and had a pump shotgun with purple sequins and a tiger stripe fur stock. It shot rhinestones and glitter.
Police: <aside> Dispatch, we're gonna need the rubber ambulance for this one.

That's awesome.

Agnes has a certain charm.

Why is "I like big butts!" running through my head?

Because your anaconda don't want none, unless she's got buns, hon?

Ahhhhh, thanks for clarifying!

Wow, I can't think how people would react if I whipped out Carmela from behind my couch.

italian? I believe it.

but others have been doing this for a while.

While these fashion statements might be a little too glam for our sensibilities, in an especially punk, especially 80's setup (rather like how I imagine Wounded Ronin runs his games), they make perfect sense. Imagine the wage slave with shoulder pads like a line backer and a foot of curly brown hair going out in every direction, skin tight pants and pink leg warmers packing that on her person as she gets ready to meet some friends at Tiffany's.

And is attacked by a horde Ninjas while she is on her way. Thank God she packed her her new fashionable gun and can overcome the threat of Ninja terror.

Too bad she wasn't aware of the Drop Bear platoon...

As background music we have a mixtape with Mötley Crüe, Jon Bon Jovi and Motörhead.

Magnum Research
Yeah, now you can get your .50 AE with BLING... 24kt gold bling too.

I love this shit.... its so punk its making me cry.

They've had those options pretty much since the beginning. Which makes sense, considering the reasons why Desert Eagles mostly get bought.

I really liked Carmela. So catholic looking and with so much violence potential...

Nay, she's a young, shiny battleaxe from the look of it!

Though I'm not sure she'd take that any better.

~J

Agnes was the golden grenade with a diamond necklace, carmela is the battleaxe. Nice to see The virgin mary and baby jesus on a battleaxe as well.

Looks Hot, id buy one and pick up on some chicks with my piece

Hell, I'd wield a couple of those. You gotta have styyyyle...

Hey, if I'm using those weapons, I'm probably going to plead insanity at my trial anyway, so decorating my weapon to make it look like that would be a bonus.

Yeah. So. Weapons made for fashion, huh? Fair enough, but I'd have to say that weapon manufacturers have been designing asthetically pleasing weapons for decades. This stuff, however, ain't fashion. It's tacky, like making fluro-pink armoured jackets.

re Agnes:

Here's some more:

Hello Kitty in .45 caliber

What's worse, is that apparently, someone actually uses these. They're not some artist's flight of fancy.

Those aren't worse. It's a colored grip with a tiny icon. It's silly but not as embarassing as the trash at the front of this.

Reminds me of that one line in the second resident evil movie:

"My shit is custom!" (When a npc whips out his gold plated desert eagle)

You can find more weapons by the same artist here.

For some reason, the fifth image doesn't seem to work.

I must have this.

THere is actually a single great advantage to these tacky firearms. Product safety laws in most countries require that toy firearms are painted bright colors such as orange so that they don't look real. This fact really pisses of toy gun collectors and Transformers fans (it is the primary reason why there hasn't been a reissue of G1 Megatron).
Yet, by painting these firearms bright colors so that they resemble toys, you reverse this. People will look at your hot-pink Hello-Kitty pistol and assume that it is just a toy. They'll remain relaxed and they'll laugh. And then you'll shoot them with it.
This works best if you're a pre-teen girl.

I don't really get what's so "controversial" about it. They're briefly amusing, but intellectually vacuous and aesthetically bankrupt.

I agree it's not controversial, but I think it's a nice closing of the loop as far as the pop-culture spectrum. It's beautiful satire. But, you know... art

"Quick toss the grenade in there!"
"I can't!"
"Why the frag not?"
"It's prada!!!"

I can see this happening too...
-------------------------------------------------
"I'm out of Ammo!"
*Ker-blam* "Here, take this!"
"I can't!!!"
*Ker-blam* "Why The FRAG NOT!?!" *Ker-blam*
"It doesn't CLASHES my outfit!!!*
"..."

hmm, this makes me think about a line in cp2020, about "polymer-one-shots" in designer colors