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pfft. Built any “City” theme sets lately? All the police minifigs pack pretty realistic-looking semi-autos.

I don’t think that’s true at all. I looked at every police set Lego is selling currently and not a single one of them included even a suggestion of a gun.

Typical police equipment are handcuffs, megaphones, walkie-talkies, traffic paddles and coffee cups. The criminals might carry gold, banknotes, dynamite or crowbars and other tools.

The most gun-like thing in current sets is the huge net shooter (larger than a minifig and not portable at all) that really isn’t very gun-like at all.

Not even the minifig prints include suggestions of guns.

At the other end of the spectrum, you have Playmobil's police sets which include sub machine guns, rifles with sniper-scopes and attack dogs eg [0]

0. https://www.amazon.com/PLAYMOBIL%C2%AE-6872-Police-Command-C...

What do you need guns for anyway? When I was a kid, I armed my Lego The A-Team with small, narrow plates or antennas with ring clips. Worked perfectly.

Do you have a reference to an official Lego City set with semi-autos? I find that hard to believe.

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=gun

try this

I still don't see it. There are sci-fi guns like blasters, historical guns like flintlocks, and there are guns used in superhero sets, but nothing for Lego City or any other set that claims to represent real life.

https://warehouse19.se/images/normal/1-1981-.jpg

Admittedly a revolver and not a semi-auto, and I don't know if it's from a current or recently discontinued set. But it's definitely from a modern set.

edit: link to the specific piece: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=1356...

In the first picture, is that from an actual Lego City set, or has someone added the revolver to the police officer from another set?

The BrickLink page lists the revolver as part of a bunch of western and cavalry sets, that is, historical sets. Click "Item Appears In: 7 Sets" to the right.

I was very convinced I'd seen guns in the Lego City sets. Upon further consideration I might have to concede that was, in fact, wrong.

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