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If it's anything like military colour codes, they'd be swapped regularly as a matter of course.
by overscore 6y ago
If it's anything like military colour codes, they'd be swapped regularly as a matter of course.
- snowwrestler 6y agoI have no idea how often they swap, but generally speaking, Federal agents unholster their weapons in public very rarely. So, there is probably not as much need for frequent rotation compared to the military.
- overscore 6y agoThey may have a "colour of the day" and routinely swap them. Hard to know how they're affixed, though - they don't look very swappable.
- irscott 6y agoCould be something as simple as hook and loop tape. One side is permanently/semi-permanently affixed to the slide the other side gets swapped based on x criteria. That's how I'd do it. The military loves velcro.
- overscore 6y agoTrue, but the photos don't seem to show the depth that hook-and-loop would add. That, and even the milimetre that hook-and-loop would add could impede draw and reholstering. I was in a non-US military and we used electrical tape - two or three strips around rifle magazines.
- thesuitonym 6y agoIt would be crazy if they didn't have a color of the day, but then again, humans are not always rational, and it looks like it's not the type of tape that comes off easily--though it's impossible to tell just from a photo.
- overscore 6y agoYeah, that's my take too. If it's removable/swappable, it'd have to be something that never impedes drawing or reholstering, which makes me suspect it's more permanent than hook-and-loop, at least.
- dafoex 6y agoI've had strangely a lot of experience with stickers and sticky tape, and the material the sticker is made of can aid removal even if the glue is sturdy: paper stickers tear, but thicker plastic stickers will hold together as you force them away from the glue. Alternatively, the glue could be water soluble, or perhaps soften with heat.